[Leica] Fair enough - now typewriters

[sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)]

Here was some real neuralgia, er, I mean nostalgia  ;-)
My going-away-to-college gift from my parents was a Remington portable that 
served me well despite all of the issues recited in this thread, messy 
ribbon ink, errors to be corrected et al. Used it through college and law 
school. When I was released from active duty in the Navy and accepted a 
2-year Ford Foundation Fellowship in Comparative Law, a year at NYU Law 
School and a year at the Law Faculty of the University of Paris, I used some 
of my Navy separation pay (60 days' unused leave) to buy an Olympia portable 
that I used during those two law student years and for years afterward at 
home when transcribing some verse and short fiction that I wrote when not 
practicing law.

That Olympia was - and is - built like, well, like a Leica. It's a fortress. 
Still have it though I haven't used it in maybe ten years. Last time I did, 
I had it lubricated - it didn't need "clean" or "adjust" - and with 
difficulty found a new ribbon! It will still be chugging along when my 
granddaughter's granddaugher starts college. Of course, she will not know 
what this object is!

Seth