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  • q. re: NCIS, McGeek, and ye olde typewriters

    From danny burstein@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 18 03:11:49 2025
    XPost: alt.tv.navy-ncis

    A post in alt.obituaries about erasable typewriter paper
    (yes, children, there was such a thing...) jogged my
    memory about a question regarding an NCIS episode.

    McGeek's A Number Fan is murdering people using
    the plots in Tim's book. However, it's NOT yet
    been published, and the only draft copies are
    fully accounted for.

    They eventually figure out that... his fan has
    been going through the garbage and retrieving
    the _carbon ribbons_ which, as we all know, are
    single pass-through and have an imprint of
    every letter.

    HOWEVER, Timmy was using an ancient, manual
    typewriter.

    I don't recall any of them using carbon ribbons
    and don't think they'd work too well.

    Anyone bump into this actually being out there?

    Thanks

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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to danny burstein on Mon Aug 18 03:38:26 2025
    XPost: alt.tv.navy-ncis

    danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

    A post in alt.obituaries about erasable typewriter paper
    (yes, children, there was such a thing...) jogged my
    memory about a question regarding an NCIS episode.

    McGeek's A Number Fan is murdering people using
    the plots in Tim's book. However, it's NOT yet
    been published, and the only draft copies are
    fully accounted for.

    They eventually figure out that... his fan has
    been going through the garbage and retrieving
    the _carbon ribbons_ which, as we all know, are
    single pass-through and have an imprint of
    every letter.

    HOWEVER, Timmy was using an ancient, manual
    typewriter.

    I don't recall any of them using carbon ribbons
    and don't think they'd work too well.

    Anyone bump into this actually being out there?

    I wonder if these were first made for Olivetti or IBM Selectric.

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to danny burstein on Mon Aug 18 18:58:49 2025
    XPost: alt.tv.navy-ncis

    On 2025-08-18 03:11:49 +0000, danny burstein said:

    A post in alt.obituaries about erasable typewriter paper
    (yes, children, there was such a thing...) jogged my
    memory about a question regarding an NCIS episode.

    McGeek's A Number Fan is murdering people using
    the plots in Tim's book. However, it's NOT yet
    been published, and the only draft copies are
    fully accounted for.

    They eventually figure out that... his fan has
    been going through the garbage and retrieving
    the _carbon ribbons_ which, as we all know, are
    single pass-through and have an imprint of
    every letter.

    HOWEVER, Timmy was using an ancient, manual
    typewriter.

    I don't recall any of them using carbon ribbons
    and don't think they'd work too well.

    Anyone bump into this actually being out there?

    Thanks

    I can't see why it wouldn't work any problem, as long as the ribbon
    width is correct, although you might need a bit more force on the keys
    to make the imprint.

    According to a Facebook post, you can use carbon ribbons in a manual typewriter.

    "Dirk D. Plante
    That's a carbon ribbon. Single-use. I've had them installed
    in manual typewriters too."

    <https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10159816245429678/>

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