#Technology that I don't think ever existed, but which *should* have...

The #microfiche #typewriter. [1]

It is a typewriter very closely resembling an #IBM #Selectric electric typewriter. The keyboard is virtually identical, though the platen and print head are different. Instead of the platen being a rubber roller, there is a slot with guides, into which you drop a standard-sized plastic film sheet - a #fiche.

The type element - the "ball" - is identical to a normal Selectric element, except for size. It's only a few millimetres in diameter. Typing is virtually silent, because the ball moves only a tiny, tiny amount at a time, so little you don't even notice it unless you watch for a full line of type.

Above the fiche slot is a small-ish translucent rear-projection screen, which shows the text of the page you're currently typing. Operators work in a dimly-lit room, and their faces are bathed in a diffuse, soft white light.

#retro #RetroTechnology #RetroFuture #TypeElement #TypewriterBall #ShouldHaveBeen #ShouldHave #If #invention #1960s #typewriter

[1] Or #microfilm

When your journey isn't enough to motivate you, it's because you haven't accepted it yet.

You're still arguing with it.

You think it should be easier or that you shouldn't have had to go through all those things.

Shift your perception.

Those things got you here.

Those things are the reason why you are who you are.

It's easy to decide that you could have gotten there without all the pain, but would you have done it?

Would you really trade where you are now to avoid the pain?

Deciding that things shouldn't be the way they are is what causes the pain.

Learning to see the journey for just what it is - a path that got you here - frees you from needing to argue with the way you think it should have looked.

The problem is you that you can't change it. It's a losing battle. So if you don't accept it, it's just a stalemate. You can't get there from there.

Think about all the places where you realized that without that thing the next thing wouldn't have happened. Can you find those?

That shows you how interconnected your experience truly is. One thing led to the next thing led to the next thing, and it kept going. If you look at it closely, you'll see that it all makes sense. You just have to get out of the story of victimizing yourself with your own life experience to see it.

Your life may not have turned out the way you thought it should, but it did turn out exactly the way it was supposed to. How do I know that? Because you're here, that's how.

Love to all.

Della

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