[Sca-cooks] Recent Test

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> At 02:14 AM 2/10/2004, you wrote:
>
>> > I was talking 1971.  In cleaning, I just found a box of paper tape.
>> >
>> > Ranvaig *feeling my age*
>>
>> If it weren't for paper tape, I'd not know how to store my collection of
>> fabric trims.
>> *grin*
>>
>> Butterflies are Us,
>> Hrothny
>> (You all think you're so old... I learned to type on a Western Union
>> teletype!)
>
>
> All right, now I don't feel so bad. I've been indulging in a bit of 
> self-pity, having recently attained Jack Benny's venerable age, but 
> gee-whiz, *teletype*?

In my earlier days, I ran an "accounting machine" for the Directors 
Guild, just before they computerized.  Much like a keypunch, which I had 
learned the year before in a computer class.  I learned to type on 
manual too.  

Why do we compete for 'who feels the most old'?  Whomever wins, loses.  :-(

Selene Colfox, saving up my youth for later when I'll really need it