typewriters

[tartanwiz]

Do people still use them in an office, or have they been totally replaced by computers? Has the manual (or even electronic) typewriter become as obsolete as the phonograph or the steam engine?

[Doolallygirl]

We've still got one in our office and it gets used pretty much everyday. We type labels on them because no idiot can be bothered to sit here and work out a macro to do it all for us on computer instead.

[thewillow]

How would the culprit have been unmasked in Jagged Edge had it not been for that one dodgy key on the typewriter?

[bluedolphin]

Faster for writing names on certificates also....

[rekstout]

Good for filling in pre-printed forms and where you need some form of impact printer for carbon copies.

[smudge]

Ditto doolallygirl. All our offices had computers in, but downstairs tucked away in reception, was an electric typewriter which was used for labels & envelopes! It was also useful for completing forms, etc., too.

[smurfchops]

Are there any offices that anyone knows of in the UK . where only typewriters are used - no PCs at all for letters, documents etc?