Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for January 25, 2013

Gee Roy – look on Amazon or E-bay you can find any old tech stuff there. All techs know that answer.

but a typewriter ribbon would be dried out by now

and, mimeograph machines, dot matrix printers,

Not to mention all that slick, shiny copier paper that came in rolls.

I still have a box of carbon paper she can have.

Just hope she doesn’t want chalk for her tablet.

What is that in her hand?

The old typewriter ribbon.

At least he knows what a typewriter is. Possible someone’s still making typewriters. Friend of mine still has an old word processor, a transitional contraption made obsolete by computers.

I remember mistrusting the IBM Selectric typewriter when it first came out because of the ball, it just didn’t seem right somehow. My better halfs portable typewriter she used in college is still around somewhere and works fine. I had a use for it up until about 7 years ago.

you can still get white out in any wal mart, they don’t let me use it though… they say its hard to get off the screen

I taught myself to type on an old Remington manual. It had a half red/half black ribbon so you could type in color with the shift of a lever.

Everything in this comic is so cliche, obvious. Cliches aren’t funny! Anti-cliche is funny! Like if that old lady outsmarted the geek, or if Rita did something that everyone thought was typical dumb boss, and she turned out to be right! That’s funny! You people wouldn’t know funny if it gave you a job! haha!

Just what we need. Another poster who hates everything,but keeps reading the comics anyway.

Typewriters ARE still available, but the problem is that they all (or almost all) use carbon ribbons – SINGLE-PASS ribbons. An old-fashioned cloth, multi-pass ribbon is almost IMPOSSIBLE to find.

I’m surprised Roy even knew about typewriter ribbons. I tried to learn on mom’s old manual. It has the cloth ribbon and I swear the machine was made of cast iron, it was so heavy.My typewriter is packed away here, somewhere. An IBM Selectric, with interchangeable type balls. I remember thinking how cool that was.But the computer keyboard is so much easier. The keys don’t need to be pounded. .And I remember being 8 years old and getting to be part of the group of four that got to make the mimeograph copies. Every week, a different group of four. Oh, that wonderful smell. Could float for the rest of the morning!

Yep – there are still companies that make typewriter ribbons. In most cases it’s not the company that made that style originally – but you can still buy ribbons for a number of typewriters.