On 2025-06-12, Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 12:41:34PM -0000, Greg wrote: >>Way back when I was still in high school, I had a Corona electric >>typewriter (it had ink cartridges you'd slip in). If you made a typo, >>you'd insert the correction cartridge and type over it. > > Quite the advancement over white-out, or that horrible erasible paper. >
Yes, I remember white-out and the tiny brush. Sometimes I wonder how writing has changed now that correction isn't a protracted and fastidious process, and you're no longer required to retype an entire page to modify a sentence or even change one word for another, or delete something. I remember Norman Mailer saying he'd only perform an edit or two, because he took pity on his secretary.
