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I worked at two of the biggest accounting firms in the world. You know, the kind that you read about in the news because they're hiding rich people's money. And yes, the older ones especially, are useless with computers. We had one secretary to a senior partner who insisted on having a typewriter.
I can actually see the point of a typewriter.
If someone involved in underhanded business gets an email or an electronically letter, they might think there's an electronic trail.
If the letter was hand typed, they'll know it's not quite as traceable
I've read that Putin's security people use typewriters for just this reason.
You can forensically link a typed text to the typewriter that wrote it.
Yes, if the person doesn't burn the message.
Or the typewriter?
Or the secretary?
In Russia, they make windows off all sizes
Well, as a legal secretary in the early 1990s... I had to type things in triplicate (pressure printed on my typewriter...)
I'll go further back in the Wayback Machine.
When I was very young I got a Disney book where Mickey and Donald Duck are in school. Donald tells Mickey they don't need to learn to spell because when they grow up they'll be able to buy typewriters. Donald thought that typewriters would automatically correct any spelling mistakes.
That's weird to me, because accounting was one of the first fields to dive into computers. My grandpa started his career in the 1950s as an accountant, and ended it as an IT manager.
Electronic spreadsheets were a gamechanger.
Whoa... I am an old shit who does miss her electronic typewriter that actually produced a product in real time without having to rely on cloud/blueshit connections. but okay, since you probably have not had a real time experience... it is reasonable that you don't relate. Understand... everytime I try to print post op instructions at work, my computer can't figure out what printer to send it to so I have to select one out of like 30 printers it lists. This is not convenient nor helpful.
I fixed my mom's mechanical typewriter when I was twelve, when I was fifteen I released a couple of issues of a punk fanzine that I typed up on my mom's IBM electric typewriter. My mom was a secretary in the days of Madmen, she learned to use words processors and printers. But this woman would phone IT when her typewriter wasn't working, in 3005 this was not my problem.