A post in alt.obituaries about erasable typewriter paper
(yes, children, there was such a thing...) jogged my
memory about a question regarding an NCIS episode.

McGeek's A Number Fan is murdering people using
the plots in Tim's book. However, it's NOT yet
been published, and the only draft copies are
fully accounted for.

They eventually figure out that... his fan has
been going through the garbage and retrieving
the _carbon ribbons_ which, as we all know, are
single pass-through and have an imprint of
every letter.

HOWEVER, Timmy was using an ancient, manual
typewriter.

I don't recall any of them using carbon ribbons
and don't think they'd work too well.

Anyone bump into this actually being out there?

Thanks

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danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> wrote:

A post in alt.obituaries about erasable typewriter paper
(yes, children, there was such a thing...) jogged my
memory about a question regarding an NCIS episode.

McGeek's A Number Fan is murdering people using
the plots in Tim's book. However, it's NOT yet
been published, and the only draft copies are
fully accounted for.

They eventually figure out that... his fan has
been going through the garbage and retrieving
the _carbon ribbons_ which, as we all know, are
single pass-through and have an imprint of
every letter.

HOWEVER, Timmy was using an ancient, manual
typewriter.

I don't recall any of them using carbon ribbons
and don't think they'd work too well.

Anyone bump into this actually being out there?

I wonder if these were first made for Olivetti or IBM Selectric.

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On 2025-08-18 03:11:49 +0000, danny burstein said:

A post in alt.obituaries about erasable typewriter paper
(yes, children, there was such a thing...) jogged my
memory about a question regarding an NCIS episode.

McGeek's A Number Fan is murdering people using
the plots in Tim's book. However, it's NOT yet
been published, and the only draft copies are
fully accounted for.

They eventually figure out that... his fan has
been going through the garbage and retrieving
the _carbon ribbons_ which, as we all know, are
single pass-through and have an imprint of
every letter.

HOWEVER, Timmy was using an ancient, manual
typewriter.

I don't recall any of them using carbon ribbons
and don't think they'd work too well.

Anyone bump into this actually being out there?

Thanks

I can't see why it wouldn't work any problem, as long as the ribbon
width is correct, although you might need a bit more force on the keys
to make the imprint.

According to a Facebook post, you can use carbon ribbons in a manual typewriter.

"Dirk D. Plante
That's a carbon ribbon. Single-use. I've had them installed
in manual typewriters too."

<https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10159816245429678/>




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