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Back in '76 we were still working on belt - recording systems on Selectrics.

Posted: Jan 3rd, 2017 - 5:32 am In Reply to: Got you all beat. We speculated about this - in 1976

We used carbon paper and Liquid paper (4 colors) until about 1986 or 87, when we got an IBM PC with a tiny screen and a printer that only printed one line at a time. You had to wait until it stopped printing before you could type the next page. LOL!

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        Back in '76 we were still working on belt - recording systems on Selectrics.
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