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by derefr
2259 days ago
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> Even without a fancy typewriter, there were handheld white out sheets you could get, white tape, or you could use liquid paper. True, but if your transcription was being handled by a professional typist, often the process of handling manual white-out taping (followed by re-feeding/aligning the sheet to its previous position) would be slower than just re-typing the entire page! The secondary white-out ribbons were the only thing I saw used in practice (by anyone other than slow-as-molasses government bureaucracies), because they didn’t require re-feeding the paper. |
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I tend to think business users at the time had the fancy typewriters or word processors, while home/student users were limited to whatever correction tools they could afford.
As a student, prior to getting a dot matrix printer, I would use either liquid paper or those powdered correction sheets to fix typos.