Comment on Why I’m So Desperate for the Return of Microsoft Word to Our Prison Library

• recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Last, he wipes down the Swintec typewriter bolted to the table.

  you’re right and that’s real cursed

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  • n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re not completely wrong, as they also have thin clients which should be technically capable of running a word processor. It’s just a question of whether the prison is going to implement that no/low-cost solution.

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• recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  reading the article, I had a thought/question: wouldn’t the Swintec typewriter solely act as the typing implement and not as a stream blocker in a sense?

  The typewriter obviously wouldn’t have functions such as n-key-rollover, macros and whatnot but would it restrict what application can interpret the user’s input?

  If so then maybe someone could agrue that this is yet another case of IBM’s Bundling

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  • mark3748@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There is no application. It’s a literal typewriter. It takes a key press and stamps it on the paper.

    Image

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    • recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      gods

      alright it’s worse than I thought, having to use that and only that means you’re gigafucked

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    • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This made me lol, thanks

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