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Title: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: Karin on May 14, 2016, 02:50:05 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018865881 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018865881)
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Fri May 13, 2016, 11:22 PM

Star Member Renew Deal (67,882 posts)

I have an idea for an invention
   
Currently people use computers to compose documents and print them out when they're done.

My idea... A machine where every letter you type gets instantly printed onto the paper. And once you're done, just pull the paper out and use it. No more waiting for printers to print. No more toner.

What do you all think?
 

 :lmao:  What about editing?  And what's this about no toner?  You still need ink, idiot.

Short thread.  Most people responded with typewriter jokes.  Just wanted to row over the idiocy. 

Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: thundley4 on May 14, 2016, 02:52:29 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018865881 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018865881)
 :lmao:  What about editing?  And what's this about no toner?  You still need ink, idiot.

Short thread.  Most people responded with typewriter jokes.  Just wanted to row over the idiocy.

Amazingly enough, things still get printed from computers with plenty of mistakes.  :-)
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: FlaGator on May 14, 2016, 02:52:45 PM
How about forking up the bucks to buy a really fast printer. We have a couple of of printers at work that will print War and Peace in under a minute.
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: FlaGator on May 14, 2016, 02:54:31 PM
Now that I think about it, someone has already invented that. It is called a typewriter.
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: thundley4 on May 14, 2016, 03:22:15 PM
Now that I think about it, someone has already invented that. It is called a typewriter.

:doh:  :whistling:
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: Patriot Guard Rider on May 14, 2016, 03:27:44 PM
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Now that I think about it, someone has already invented that. It is called a typewriter.

And I'll invent something called "white out" so you can correct your errors while the document is still loaded in the "typewriter" so you can pull it out when complete.

Voila!! I'll make a freakin fortune.

 :tongue:
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: Patriot Guard Rider on May 14, 2016, 03:29:25 PM
How about forking up the bucks to buy a really fast printer. We have a couple of of printers at work that will print War and Peace in under a minute.

Why would you want to print something like "War and Peace" in under a minute when it takes 47 years to read?
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: zeitgeist on May 14, 2016, 04:07:03 PM
:doh:  :whistling:

Oh Brother!   :rofl:

I am trying to remember the name of the word processor a friend of mine's wife had years ago.  It predated the Wang, or maybe he did.   :whistling:
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: Patriot Guard Rider on May 14, 2016, 04:11:34 PM
Oh Brother!   :rofl:

I am trying to remember the name of the word processor a friend of mine's wife had years ago.  It predated the Wang, or maybe he did.   :whistling:

There is no man, anywhere, in the history of the world, that has predated the wang.

 :rotf:
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: CollectivismMustDie on May 14, 2016, 06:27:12 PM
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018865881 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018865881)
 :lmao:  What about editing? 

In other words, this is the perfect model for gNads.

 :lmao:

CMD
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: I_B_Perky on May 14, 2016, 06:58:05 PM
Oh Brother!   :rofl:

I am trying to remember the name of the word processor a friend of mine's wife had years ago.  It predated the Wang, or maybe he did.   :whistling:

Pertec?   That predated the Wang.

As for software I remember Wordstar and PC Write. Then along came WordPerfect. That one was the biggie until Gates came up with Word.
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: SVPete on May 14, 2016, 07:27:59 PM
Oh Brother!   :rofl:

I am trying to remember the name of the word processor a friend of mine's wife had years ago.  It predated the Wang, or maybe he did.   :whistling:

My was a WP operator. She used the NBI Model 2 and Model 3000. Both used 8" floppies.
Title: Re: DUmmie has idea for invention
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on May 15, 2016, 08:47:36 AM
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Fri May 13, 2016, 11:22 PM

Star Member Renew Deal (67,882 posts)

I have an idea for an invention
   
Currently people use computers to compose documents and print them out when they're done.

My idea... A machine where every letter you type gets instantly printed onto the paper. And once you're done, just pull the paper out and use it. No more waiting for printers to print. No more toner.

What do you all think?

I think all the DUmmies should sink every dime they have or can get into your start-up and then be plunged into suicidal depression when the inevitable occurs.  I also think you must be the best typist on Earth, or think you are, and you apparently have a pretty high idea of everyone else's typing accuracy and ability to compose on the fly.  And finally, I think you don't realize that every method of printing except old faxes using thermal paper (Uncorrectable, incidentally, but then that obviously isn't a concern in your scheme) uses some kind of consumable to put the dark places on the white paper.