OT: RE: Online vs paper-based editing

["Al Geist" <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>]

Melissa Nelson wrote:
 
<<...I prefer to edit on paper. I think this is simply because that is how I
learned how to edit back in the old days when I was going to college the
first time. I had to write everything out before putting it on a
typewriter...yikes, those were the days eh?>>

Remember when the IBM Selectric Correctible came on the scene?  Okay,
altogether now...how many of us used the roll of correction tape on an IBM
Selectric long before the ink ribbon faded from use?

I thought so.......

Al Geist (who still owns an old Selectric)
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