Electric. It was a Daisy Wheel type IBM bordering on being a word processor. It had about a 60x2 or so display, but I used it in real time typing mode. I'm embarassed to admit it, but this is one of the typewriters with correction tape at the bottom of the ink tape, I couldn't figure out how to move the correction section into position. I've other ones in the past that I did know how to do that with, but I flat couldn't find the option on this one.
The last one I ran into was, I think, in the late '80s. It was an electric IBM thing with a ball mechanism. They used it to fill out grant forms, which had to be sent only on the original paper, within specific frames, etc. - very silly.
Labels can be done in a laser printer, too, you know, though I wonder how risky it is to print on a label paper from which some of the labels have already been removed.
That would work on the cable labels assuming I have the proper template. I've learned the hard way that MS products aren't the best for automation anyways.
The laser printer flat will not work for the proper cabinet labels (semi metalic, small, not on anything you could run through a printer). You can eaither do those with a Sharpie (which looks like crap) or the typewriter. Most opt for the Sharpie.
Damn, you must be way ahead of the rural U.S. technologically. In Pecos type writers are probably still neck and neck with PCs for typical writing.
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I used it to make cable labels.
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Labels can be done in a laser printer, too, you know, though I wonder how risky it is to print on a label paper from which some of the labels have already been removed.
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The laser printer flat will not work for the proper cabinet labels (semi metalic, small, not on anything you could run through a printer). You can eaither do those with a Sharpie (which looks like crap) or the typewriter. Most opt for the Sharpie.
Damn, you must be way ahead of the rural U.S. technologically. In Pecos type writers are probably still neck and neck with PCs for typical writing.
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