From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
      
   >Unlike Stephen King and the late Peter David,   
   >since childhood I have always preferred and   
   >insisted upon erasable typing paper,which as   
   >far as I can tell is no longer manufactured.   
      
   >I actually signed up to buy through Ebay (I   
   >decline to use their stylized anomalous capitalization)   
   >in order to get some,and after delivery hiccups   
   >caused by their database thinking they knew better   
   >than I do what my ZIP+4 is based on the address   
   >variant I tried to use,I have now taken possession   
   >of over a thousand sheets after having just about   
   >run out.   
      
   >The sheets themselves may be fifty years old,   
   >though the packages I got are mostly never-opened;   
   >they say they are from the Eaton Paper division of   
   >Textron,and Textron bought Eaton's then-parent Gorham   
   >in 1967 and renamed the division Sheaffer Eaton when   
   >they bought the Sheaffer pen company in 1976.   
      
   >(Some other packages available online are attributed   
   >to Sheaffer Eaton,and the Eaton paper factory in   
   >Pittsfield was shut just before Textron sold Sheaffer   
   >Eaton to Gefinor in 1987,which has since sold it in   
   >pieces).   
      
   >Now I can use my typewriter and know I can erase   
   >mistakes again!!   
      
   Isn't there a solvent involved? Wouldn't it have evaporated?   
      
   I just use white out.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)