1 - Ektagraphic
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Attempt to remove typewriters from NYPD
I just saw this article about an attempt to remove typewriters from the NYPD. Really? I think that these people have better things to worry about than removing typewriters. I am hoping that they will keep the typewriters around. I say if it ain't broke, don't fix it, but it sounds like with the case that they mention, it is broke. I wonder how many cases could be altered if work is moved to computer, as compared to the one that they mention in the article is passed off. With the NYPD being such a large organization, I wonder if this will really hurt the businesses such as Swintec that have supplied them with typewriters. Long live the typewriter!
Pat
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Re: Attempt to remove typewriters from NYPD
Well! In the workplace I have certainly railed against people who say they 'don't do email' etc. But a bill, really??
I think this is the moment for some enterprising journalistic typophile to go do a feature on the actual typewriters in the NYPD, get some photos, interview some cops, talk about why they still use them - I'd love to read that.
- Ektagraphic
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I agree! It would be neat to hear from the officers and people still using them!
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Re: Attempt to remove typewriters from NYPD
My credit union bank still has several Selectric IIs that they use for filling out forms, which I suspect is what the cops use them for also.
- Repartee
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I am not going to read the article, but the headline suggests... never mind what the headline suggests. Before fulminating we should consider the source: the N Y Post makes and art form out of writing provocative headlines.
Anecdotally, a coworker of mine is a retired Long Island cop and says he knew somebody in the NYPD who typed 80 wpm with two fingers, claiming he learned to do this in the military! I'd dismiss this as hyperbole except I've seen a YouTube video of a German guy doing about the same thing. Can't find that video right now so here is one in consolation:
Jerry Lewis Typerwriter
"Damn the torpedoes! Four bells, Captain Drayton".
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Re: Attempt to remove typewriters from NYPD
Repartee wrote:
here is one in consolation: Jerry Lewis Typerwriter
Or here...
The pronoun I has always been capitalized in the English language for more than 700 years.
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Re: Attempt to remove typewriters from NYPD
Or here...
I think I stumbled upon the best version first. The office persona is somewhere on the scale of normal human personality. If I had seen the completely moronic Lewis who looks like he is short a few chromosomes first I would never have dreamed of inflicting it on anybody else. Some things are best not spoken of. 
"Damn the torpedoes! Four bells, Captain Drayton".
- beak
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Re: Attempt to remove typewriters from NYPD
I think there is a department in most branches of government, local and national in which sit several otherwise useless, disaffected *****ers whose job it is to comb society for things which have been working reasonably well for a while without being interfered with, and begin the process of interfering with them. There will always be some otherwise useless polly somewhere wanting a little scrap of notoriety to whom they can pass on the relevant file.
Sincerely,
beak.
- ztyper
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Re: Attempt to remove typewriters from NYPD
I think there is a department in most branches of government, local and national in which sit several otherwise useless, disaffected *****ers whose job it is to comb society for things which have been working reasonably well for a while without being interfered with, and begin the process of interfering with them. There will always be some otherwise useless polly somewhere wanting a little scrap of notoriety to whom they can pass on the relevant file.
If by that logic, then I suppose we should take a look at typewriters for being the most notorious! I remember reading an digitally scanned newspaper article from I think around the 1880's or 90's in which pen manufacturers were complaining how typewriters were a "toy" and it was ruining their business because offices were using machines to fill out forms and not ink pens. They exclaimed on how stupid typewriters were, and that pens were perfectly fine, if not better because of the personal connection one has with the letter. Personally this sounds all too familiar to me, and the article made my blood boil (how dare they call my Royal a "toy"?!) to the point where I nearly broke my pen in favor if the typewriter. But I'm just saying, it happened then, and it's happening now. These people (the ones who root out the perfectly functional old and replace it with the new) were alive even then.
A high schooler with a lot of typewriters. That's pretty much about it.
- TypewriterKing
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Re: Attempt to remove typewriters from NYPD
I guess the one thing to do now would be for the collectors in that area to wait for it to actually happen, find out where they will auction them off, and if they are able, buy a piece or pieces of history.
Underwood--Speeds the World's Bidness
