{"id":752,"date":"2011-03-28T09:06:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T16:07:13","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-rexall-typewriter-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/752\/retro-scan-of-the-week-rexall-typewriter-paper","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Rexall Typewriter Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/typewriter_paper_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/typewriter_paper_small.jpg\" alt=\"Rexall Typewriter Paper Pad Cover - circa 1950s - 1960s\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>Rexall Fine Quality Typewriter Paper<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I found this pad of 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; Rexall typewriter paper in a pile of my parents&#8217; old documents.  It immediately struck me as interesting because typewriter paper is not something you&#8217;d typically find on sale in a drug store these days.<\/p>\n<p>Why?  Well, computers, my boy.  They obliterated the typewriter market decisively in the early 1990s.  People found the ease of word processing on an electronic screen (especially in the post-Macintosh GUI era) much more flexible, powerful, and convenient than the comparatively cumbersome practice of using a typewriter.<\/p>\n<p>Some years ago I recall reading that certain old-school writers still swear by typewriters for clarity of thought and purity of purpose.  There&#8217;s something to that philosophy, as the modern multi-tasking operating systems we have today are extremely distracting for serious work.  Maybe computer single-tasking should come back in vogue.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ Rexall Fine Quality Typewriter Paper pad (S-789) cover, circa 1960s ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> When&#8217;s the last time you used a typewriter? Tell us about the occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rexall Fine Quality Typewriter Paper I found this pad of 8.5&#8243; x 11&#8243; Rexall typewriter paper in a pile of my parents&#8217; old documents. It immediately struck me as interesting because typewriter paper is not something you&#8217;d typically find on sale in a drug store these days. Why? Well, computers, my boy. They obliterated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-technology-commentary","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}