Snopes on Ken Olsen

From: Kevin Handy <kth_at_srv.net>
Date: Wed Sep 22 12:12:02 2004

Patrick Finnegan wrote:

>On Tuesday 21 September 2004 22:22, Joseph S. Barrera III wrote:
>
>
>>Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>
>>
>>> As for typewriters, I still have one on my desk at work, I find
>>>that a typewriter is still useful, even now.
>>>
>>>
>>Really?! For what?
>>
>>(Besides doing a better job of faking Bush memos...)
>>
>>
>
>
>Well, it's much harder to fill out paper forms using a computer and
>printer (getting spacing right, measuring the form to figure out where
>fields are, etc). And, I prefer using my Selectric on forms to using a
>pen and writing it out; my handwriting isn't always that readable.
>
>Pat
>
>
Scan the form, load it into your favorite Word Processor or Image Editor
as a background image, and type over the top of it. You don't need to worry
about alighing the form into the printer just right, or that the feed
mechanism
will pick it at a slightly different position, etc.
Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 12:12:02 BST