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Matthew Shechmeister

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05.31.2010 10:04 PM

Meet the Last Generation of Typewriter Repairmen

It's easy to forget how much time computer word-processing programs
have saved the writing public. Before computers, any typewritten
document that needed revision had to be retyped again and again. And
that's hardly the end of it. Total up all the hours that people spent
whiting out errors before the Delete key ... how many [...]

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