| We never heard of FM radios, tape decks, CDs, electric typewriters, yogurt, or guys wearing earrings. |
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| Luckily, I wasn't pummelled to death with cast-off newsroom typewriters, and was even allowed to continue working. |
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| Others have taken the counter-revolutionary step of actually returning to simpler machines such as typewriters. |
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| These specially equipped rooms, located in Rooms 377 and 379, contain typewriters, braillewriters, text enlargers and magnifiers. |
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| Above him, attached to the wall, were 25 manual typewriters with rusted and missing parts, mute relics of an antiquated era in communication. |
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| There were a couple of electric typewriters, but we had to learn on the manual ones. |
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| Drafted in 1963, it presently remains in law that gramophones, travelling rugs, and typewriters are our most at-risk goods. |
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| Today, these notions all sound like a naive echo from the era of idealism, manual typewriters, and rotary phones. |
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| While most judges and lawyers in Germany carry laptops, many lawsuits are still filed using old fashioned typewriters and carbon paper. |
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| Typewriting institutes are becoming an oddity, as manual typewriters are swept away by word processing software and computer keyboards. |
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| The stories are already largely written for them before the journalists take fingers to typewriters or pen to paper. |
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| Final reports were prepared on manual typewriters with two-color ribbons so that totals appeared in red. |
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| The constant clacking of manual typewriters pounded a symphony of literary achievement against his sensitive eardrums. |
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| A number of sewing machines and manual typewriters from Kerry have also been donated to the Zambian Mission. |
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| There were noisy typewriters and even noisier teleprinters, to say nothing of piles of typewritten sheets of paper. |
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| We did have several electric typewriters, and we used the better of the two computers to keyboard accepted manuscripts. |
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| In France there was an important trade with the United States, which imported typewriters, industrial machines, etc. |
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| Manual typewriters with onionskin carbon paper were the closest many of us got to automation. |
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| Gone are the days of typewriters, carbon copies and whitener. |
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| Fifteen years from now, we'll recall videotapes the way we already remember typewriters and carbon paper. |
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| Third, the apostrophes are curlicues of the sort produced by word processors on personal computers, not the straight vertical hashmarks typical of typewriters. |
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| This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. |
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| At the entrance to the medina, waiting near the public writers who seem to kill time in front of their timeless typewriters. |
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| Johnson learned to touch-type around 1990, when word processors had nearly completed their replacement of typewriters. |
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| Old folk and young hipsters are similarly fond of vinyl and typewriters, and wander about in outsized spectacles. |
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| The two men had identical desks, typewriters and filing systems in their West End office. |
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| As with unwired poets and their love of their pens or their portable typewriters, every open terminal manifests another episode of the one long writing. |
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| Instead, the typewriters of today have a couple integrated circuits, a power supply, one or two stepper motors, a ribbon cable, a daisy print wheel, and a whole lot of air. |
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| It also includes photocopiers, fax machines, telephones, pagers, typewriters, word processors, teletypes and calculators. |
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| Just this morning we took delivery of three vintage typewriters. |
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| The list goes on: paper, ink, movable type, typewriters, radio, laser printers, cell phones, etc. |
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| We were used to typewriters, carbon paper and outdoor plumbing, too, but we got over it. |
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| Everything here is about details: antique typewriters, gramophones, radios, television sets, model cars and even a shark gnawing on a disco ball. |
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| He has narrowed its focus by quitting businesses such as personal computers, typewriters and liquid-crystal displays. |
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| It would be a good thing for writers of essays like this to have an extra key on their typewriters. |
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| Public servants did their work on paper, armed with typewriters filled out forms in triplicate. |
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| They do not have computer equipment or even, in some cases, typewriters or paper. |
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| Enacted in 1983, the legislation was put in place when telex machines and typewriters still dominated government offices. |
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| These were companies that would regularly have their typewriters serviced, yet not the gauges that affected the quality of their production. |
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| In most cases the Japanese electronic typewriters were imported into the Community by firms which were subsidiaries of the Japanese manufacturer. |
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| Working facilities: there is room for use by the media with several desks, typewriters, a photocopier, telephones, and fax machine. |
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| It was reminiscent of the old days of backroom politics and half-drunk reporters swaying against their typewriters. |
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| People with palmar hyperhidrosis may have difficulty holding onto objects or tools or may have difficulty using computer keyboards, typewriters, or pens. |
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| As I raced back to the threadbare offices, where we tapped out stories on half-sheets of paper hunched over manual typewriters, my adrenaline was pumping. |
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| The Malhotra parents ran a successful trading business in textiles, typewriters and sewing machines, but Malhotra senior had an eye to the future. |
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| Your article on new technology prompts me to take time off from phoning our purveyor of electric typewriters with yet another complaint about his technological masterpiece. |
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| More products were eventually added to the housewares line, including a clothing iron, potato peeler, and one of the first typewriters sold in the country. |
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| As a fallback, I suppose we can use typewriters if the word processing system fails. |
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| Now that wordprocessing has caught on, typewriters have gone the way of the dodo. |
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| Older typewriters produced typewritings in which the horizontal space allocated for each character was precisely the same. |
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| The regular decal, applied to such items as typewriters and trucks, for example, begins with a sheet of porous paper coated with a solution of starch, albumin, and glycerin. |
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| The period details are pleasing, from the typewriters to acrylic dresses and flicky hair. |
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| Computers, typewriters, petty cash and college souvenirs were stolen. |
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| Well, when I went to work in the Newcastle Registry Office in 1975, we had a manual typewriter for typing the pages in the index books and a couple of electric typewriters for doing cards. |
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| We had manual typewriters, mimeograph machines, carbon paper, and of course, a rotary dial telephone. |
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| It includes parts, consumables and small items for non-electronic or non-automated adding machines, calculators, cash registers, typewriters, dictaphones, tape recorders, and reproducing machines. |
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| They'd produce last year's textbooks, a primus stove, coffee mugs, typewriters for sale. |
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| Such non-electronic or non-automated equipment includes adding machines, calculators, cash registers, typewriters, dictaphones, tape recorders and reproducing machines. |
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| Remember typewriters, those clattering, monitorless contraptions that were all the rage not so very long ago? |
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| With the growing mechanization of the early 20th century, offices became more modern: typewriters, carbon paper and dictaphones were now commonplace. |
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| The introduction of typewriters in 1900, adding machines in 1903 and bookkeeping machines in 1920 allowed employees to balance ledgers and customer passbooks each night, rather than monthly. |
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| Using standard typewriters, he fills sheets of Japanese paper edge to edge with continuous lines of random letters or words, which form tight, dense, allover linear patterns suggesting fine stitchwork. |
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| Pearl made another doctorly and expert presence in the shop, hovering behind the overflowing shelves where the convalescents slept in plastic shrouds. Mr Tytell could customise typewriters in all kinds of ways. |
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| Few people use typewriters when a computer provides a better alternative. |
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| From typewriters and dial telephones hooked up with wires, we have reached a point where ordinary citizens use satellites and complex devices to communicate. |
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| Finally, I should like to propose the following: next time a document of this kind is drafted, we must ask the Commission officials to go back to using typewriters instead of word-processors. |
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| We journalists sat incredulous at our typewriters. |
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| A collection of vintage manual typewriters, with their circular keys and typebars, fills a glass cabinet. |
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| The average local police station is full of beefy men smoking and chatting, paperwork is tapped out on typewriters, pay is miserable and bribe-taking routine. Racism is more in evidence too. |
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| They say if you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, one would eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. |
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| It is necessary to be familiar with the capabilities of a wide variety of transcribing machines such as electric and magnetic tape typewriters, magnetic tape recording devices and text editing computer terminals. |
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| In 1991, the European Commission requested that Spain revoke its law that all typewriters, computers and printers sold domestically include the Spanish diacritical mark. |
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| Almost any document, including documents produced on typewriters, dot-matrix printers, ink-jet printers, laser printers, and phototypesetters can be recognized. |
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