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My father bought the family an early computer/word processor in the mid-80s. (He was an engineer and always one of the first to embrace technology.) It had no hard drive. It used disks. He convinced me to write a 20-page college term paper on it and somehow I deleted the entire thing, before I could print it out. My work could not be retrieved. I was so mad. I didn’t use computers again for years. I wrote all my remaining papers for college by hand or typed them on a typewriter (or both).
After I met my husband in the early 1990s, he became my IT guy. I remember I was very suspicious of any and all new technology (like e-mail) and had to be convinced that I would not lose my work.
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Haha.We’ve all been there!
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I still don’t trust “auto save.” lol
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I remember typing papers out back in the day. I think I first learned on a manual typewriter with each hand stamping a letter. The electric typewriter were an upgrade, but it still didn’t help with typos. Remember liquid paper? Mother of god I’m old…
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Oh right! And there was also a whiteout tape you could use with the typewriter-you’d retype over your mistake letter in white. So tedious!
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Omg, that’s right! Or the erasable typewriter paper. It was exactly erasable, there was a little smear, but I guess good enough!
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