From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Louis Epstein  wrote:   
   >Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
   >>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?   
      
   >The paper has a smooth coating.   
   >I will soon know if it has lost its effectiveness.   
      
   >>I just use white out.   
      
   >I've always thought that was bothersome.   
      
   It is indeed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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