"Red Rider" wrote:

"Phormer Phighter Phlyer" wrote

Red Rider wrote:

"Phormer Phighter Phlyer" wrote

We had a F-124 come back with a basket stuck on the probe..when called
the ball'basketball', landed, pried it off.

I must plead ignorance, what is an F-124?

C'mon, not all of us can tipe....

I am probably more embarrassed at not recognizing it as a typo than you are
at not being an accomplished typist.

Don't be, Red; you slim-fingered devil you.

In the old, manual typewriter days, hitting side-by-side keys
would result in only one, whichever got there first, getting
typed, or a jam of the typebars with nothing getting typed.

Electrics were iffy, they'd either emulate the manuals, or go on
strike. Disremember what selectrics and their ball did, USMC
never gave me one, and by the time I went civvie, the old
dedicated word-processors were the vogue in the beltway bandit
world.

It is only the modern computer keyboard which will slavishly put
both of the characters your fat finger hits onto the screen/into
the file.

All hail IBM for this technodigital advance.

[Bet Bill Gates is happy it can't be blamed on him.]
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OJ III
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