UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER AND MY COMPUTER FOIBLES
Much of my work was begun on an Underwood typewriter. Then I worked at an antique/second hand store that sold them for a hefty price. Royals were a fine manual typewriter but they did not command the same awe as an Underwood with the noir detective in black and white or the fedora-hatted newspaper reporter frantic to make a deadline. Energetic intent was required to make the keys strike the paper. Wrote some strong volumes this way. Then I graduated to a Remington electric and it slowed me down considerably. One little slip and the entire carriage whisks away brrrrrrrrp with duplication of error. Never mind that 'white out' applied with a brush or white correction tape took extra time. With the Underwood this was a deliberate process and part of the craft. With the Remington electric, I held the correction white out while a key slapped up painfully to bruise my finger. Writing became cries of anguish and despair. I began...