The last time I turned in a school paper that was neatly hand-written in blue ink was way back in Junior High. From then on I used my mother’s ancient Smith-Corona to bang out more readable papers. The old portable went as a trade-in on a newer, sleeker model that got me through college and when I was starting to earn more money than I needed, I upgraded to an electric model which clanged and chattered but didn’t really improve my typing. When home computers came on the market I was an early user but it took some time for attached printers to be sufficiently useful and cost effective to replace my typewriter. Eventually the computer doomed the typewriter (not to mention the word processor, a device I luckily avoided).