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Typing: What Is It I Miss?

Posted on September 12, 2011 | Leave a comment

I can’t remember what model it was, but I do remember two things about it.  It was made of metal with that particular pebbly coat of paint.  Also I remember the sound it made.  It was the first typewriter I ever struck  a key on.  As a child, many things of your parents and grandparents held a great deal of mystique.  Even though I had no idea how to type, nor did I have anything in particular that I wanted to write, I enjoyed playing on that typewriter.  The sound of an old manual typewriter is one of those pure sounds, like breaking glass or the scissors cutting paper.  It is pure, unmistakable.Royal Deluxe Portable Continue reading →

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Radio Communications

Posted on September 6, 2011 | Leave a comment

When I tell people I used to be in communications while I was in the Army, they immediately jump to what communications means today and in the civi world–PR and marketing.

That is not the case!

What I am talking about is the technological feat of communicating over long distances without the use of the internet, cell phones, satellites, land lines (aka telephones) or even smoke signals.  When it was new it was called the Wireless, later it became known as radio.  From the Korean War on it was known as RATT (an acronym for Radio And TeleType–the Army loves acronyms), which I must say has a bad-ass name.  (Please recall the Rat Patrol.) Continue reading →

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