[78-L] ^typewriter factory closes - URGENT PLEA

[Michael Biel]

On 4/28/2011 10:52 AM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> With a plastic film ribbon where characters are struck only once in one
> space it may be possible to recover a long string of words, I would think.
>
> Ron L

It is ABSOLUTELY TRUE!  This is why companies which used these ribbons 
put them thru an industrial strength shredder.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  David Lennick
>
> And has anyone ever really managed to print out an author's last magnum opus
> by stretching out the ribbon? This was a plot device in a Columbo episode in
> the 70s and more recently in House. Not possible, I say.  dl