When we look upon the
typewriter, we tend to think of it as a somewhat romantic, antiquated technology for the English major in us to write that great mystery novel we've been toying with -- not something we'd imagine anyone would still be using in a professional setting. Unfortunately for
New York's boys in blue, that's exactly the situation they find themselves in. According to
NY Post, the city has plunked down $982,269 in a contract with New Jersey-based Swintec to provide thousands of new manual electric typewriters bound for NYPD offices over the next three years, with another $99,570 going to a company for maintaining the current lineup. While arrest reports have thankfully gone the way of computers, property and evidence vouchers continue to be written up out the old fashioned way, with officers complaining about having to seek out ribbons when they (often) run dry. In some way, it's kind of funny... but mostly, it's just sad.
[Via
Yahoo! Tech]
posted July 14th 2009 11:44PM
I guess they are afraid of the Vista Machines crashing on them while trying to book someone :)
can you imagine all the typos
I wonder where I can pick one (or more) of these up?
A piece of NY history.
Anyone?
It may be old but it's foolproof
Does anyone out there under the age of 30 even know what a typewriter IS? I kinda doubt it.
By using $100K ribboned typewriter they save about 1 billion in overpriced inkjet inkt, think about that one, and yeah I know there are laserprinters but the more of those there are the more the printer companies will raise the price of their toner cartridges.