ADVANTAGES:
Back then, we didn’t have all of the wonderful advantages of modern technology. For instance, if we wanted to make copies of documents, we simply inserted more sheets of carbon in the typewriter.
Our telephones were the good old-fashioned black variety provided free of charge by Ma Bell. Our offices were in the local bank building. I think the phones were installed when the building was built around the turn of the century, and hadn’t required service since. There was no such thing as a car phone.
Our dictating machines resembled Thomas Edison’s original recording device. Dictation was recorded by a needle on a round plastic cylinder.
Summers and winters could be uncomfortable. When it got hot, we loosened our ties and sometimes removed our suit coats. We tried putting a fan in the window once but it blew all the papers off the desks.
In the winter, if we got cold, we had an old crescent wrench that we banged on the radiators. Someone down in......
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