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To: Rambi who wrote (62236)	3/13/2002 5:52:53 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

That's a great story about your mother. Yes, I remember carbons well. I worked my way through college partly by typing other students' termpapers (and correcting their grammar and spelling). Can't recall the exact numbers, but I charged so much per page plus so much for each carbon I had to make. Usually they asked for one carbon, but for theses it was up to five carbons for all the advisors. Make a mistake with a five-carbon stack (this was before corrasable paper) and you wasted a lot of time (and money) fixing it, carefully, so the carbons remained smudge free. We had a little metal plate with holes cut out of it that you would put over the mistake so you only erased the part you wanted to.