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This reminds me of when I filed for divorce in Philadelphia. I did all the paperwork myself instead of hiring a lawyer. There was one document which was required to be filled out with a typewriter. You could not print it out on a printer, or do it by hand. It needed to be a typewriter.

I didn't have a typewriter and I did not know anyone who had one. I called many copy/printing places in the city to see if there was one for rent - not one place had one to use or rent.

I found some that I could buy, but it was $100+, and I didn't want to pay that much to use it once.

Eventually I asked my soon to be ex-wife, who worked for the city, and she was able to locate one which I used and was able to successfully file the document.




Every second hand shop I've ever been to has a whole shelf of typewriters for less than $5.


> There was one document which was required to be filled out with a typewriter. You could not print it out on a printer, or do it by hand. It needed to be a typewriter.

I'm guessing it wanted typed letters but had carbon copies and thus required a struck letter to generate the carbon copies?




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