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Uwe wrote:
Out of curiosity, do you place a sheet of paper in the machine or just type on an exposed platen when you use the machine?
Personally I would find the sight of cords reassuring. It's Bluetooth, and the pandemic use of wireless devices that bombard users with an ever increasing number of electromagnetic waves - regardless of their strength - that creeps me right out.
Ah. Then you must really like the idea developed at MIT where an entire room is pervaded by low frequency electromagnetic fields which provide power to compatible devices in the room. I avoided the word "radiation" because technically this is not electromagnetic radiation but so-called near field, which does not radiate.
But I use big words I understand poorly.
OTOH I find household cable management to be a nightmare. My work areas tend to be surrounded by Medusa like tangles of power cords, USB cables and Ethernet cables. Much time is wasted when I want to move something in carefully tracing the cable and unthreading it from the quagmire. Personally - and I respect your differing opinion - I am convinced that electromagnetic fields pose a much lower to health than unknown levels of mutagenic chemicals, background ionizing radiation and ontogenic viruses (now I'm just making words up ) , so I would be willing to use more wireless technology to improve my quality of desktop.
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Uwe wrote:
Out of curiosity, do you place a sheet of paper in the machine or just type on an exposed platen when you use the machine?
Actually, the USB folks suggest placing a small piece of cork there to preserve the platen if you're not using paper with it. So that's what I do. Since I have other typewriters for non-USB typing purposes, I removed the ribbon, disconnected the drawband, and placed a thin square of cork in there. It still gives something of a satisfying sound--though to be honest, since you're only depressing the keys far enough to connect to the sensors on the bottom, you don't need to go at it with as much force as if you needed those key strokes to make a solid impression on the paper. So even before I started using the cork, I quickly found that the keys were rarely, if ever, actually striking the platen in the first place.
I see from the other threads that there is some interest in this, so I might go ahead and start a separate thread.