Manual typewriters were a pain in the ass, especially with the carbon paper. I got an electric one when I went off to college, which was better because it had that correction tape cartridge. It wasn't until Grad School that I dusted off the old Apple //e and dot matrix printer and used that to write papers. And egads -- remember when we had to spend hours and hours at the library to research something?? I wish the Internet was around then, my grades may've been better (if I could ignore the distractions )