re: #643 DaddyG
I did most of my undergraduate writing on one of those things. Avacado green with a type ball. I was thrilled with the auto-correct function (one letter at a time) because it was such a time saver. Of course if you ran out of correction ribbon you had to do it manually with a slip of correction paper, or white out the page and re-type.
The worst part - at least for me - was having to write everything out long hand before I could type it. It’s a huge timesaver to be be able to draft on the PC instead.