Monday 23 February 2015

Is it true that there are no typewriters in USA and other countries?



End of an era of typewriters – Is it right?!

The 1970s and early 1980s were a time of transition for typewriters and word processors. At one point in time, most small-business offices would be completely old-style, while large corporations and government departments would already be all new-style; other offices would have a mixture. The pace of change was so rapid that it was common for clerical staff to have to learn several new systems, one after the other, in just a few years. While such rapid change is commonplace today, and is taken for granted, this was not always so; in fact, typewriting technology changed very little in its first 80 or 90 years.
Due to falling sales, IBM sold its typewriter division in 1990 to Lexmark, completely exiting from a market it once dominated.
The increasing dominance of personal computers, desktop publishing, the introduction of low-cost, truly high-quality, laser and inkjet printer technologies, and the pervasive use of web publishing, e-mail and other electronic communication techniques have largely replaced typewriters in the United States. Still, as of 2009, typewriters continued to be used by a number of government agencies and other institutions in the USA, where they are primarily used to fill preprinted forms. According to a Boston typewriter repairman quoted by The Boston Globe, "Every maternity ward has a typewriter, as well as funeral homes". A fairly major typewriter user is the City of New York, which in 2008 purchased several thousands typewriters, mostly for use by the New York Police Department, at the total cost of $982,269. Another $99,570 was spent in 2009 for the maintenance of the existing typewriters. New York police officers would use the machines to type property and evidence vouchers on carbon paper forms.
A rather specialized market for typewriters exists due to the regulations of many correctional systems in the USA, where prisoners are prohibited to have computers or telecommunication equipment, but are allowed to own typewriters. The Swintec corporation (headquartered in Moonachie, New Jersey), which, as of 2011, still produced typewriters at its overseas factories (in Japan, Indonesia, and/or Malaysia), manufactures a variety of typewriters for use in prisons, made of clear plastic (to make it harder for prisoners to hide prohibited items inside it). As of 2011, the company had contracts with prisons in 43 US states.
In April 2011, Godrej and Boyce, a Mumbai-based manufacturer of mechanical typewriters, closed its doors, leading to a flurry of erroneous news reports that the "world's last typewriter factory" had shut down. The reports were quickly debunked.
In November 2012, Brother's UK factory manufactured what it claimed to be the last typewriter ever made in the UK; the typewriter was donated to the London Science Museum.
Russian typewriters use Cyrillic, which has made the ongoing Azerbaijani reconversion from Cyrillic to Roman alphabet more difficult. In 1997, the government of Turkey offered to donate western typewriters to the Republic of Azerbaijan in exchange for more zealous and exclusive promotion of the Roman alphabet for the Azerbaijani language; this offer, however, was declined.
In Latin America and Africa, mechanical typewriters are still common because they can be used without electrical power. In Latin America, the typewriters used are most often Brazilian models – Brazil continues to produce mechanical (Facit) and electronic (Olivetti) typewriters to the present day
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Thursday 12 February 2015

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STATE BOARD OF T ECHNICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
ANDHRA PRADESH AND TELANGANA STATES: HYDERABAD
TIME TABLE FOR TYPEWRITING EXAMINATIONS FEBRUARY,2015.

TYPEWRITING  LOWER (ENGLISH,TELUGU, HINDI AND URDU)

DAY & DATE


SUBJECT
BATCH No.
 SECOND PAPER
(MANUSCRIPT)
TIMINGS

FIRST PAPER
(SPEED)
TIMINGS

SATURDAY
21-02-2015
Eng./Tel/Hindi/
Urdu(Lower)
I
8.30 AM  TO  9.15 AM
9.35 AM  TO  9.45 AM
Eng./Tel
(Lower)
II
10.45 AM  TO 11.30 AM
11.50 AM  TO 12.00 NOON



SUNDAY
22-02-2015

Eng./Tel
(Lower)
III
8.30 AM  TO  9.15 AM
9.35 AM  TO  9.45 AM
Eng/Tel
 (Lower)
IV
10.45 AM  TO 11.30 AM
11.50 AM  TO 12.00 NOON

TYPEWRITING - ENGLISH, TELUGU, HINDI,URDU HIGHER GRADE AND  ENGLISH JUNIOR GRADE



SATURDAY
21-02-2015

Junior Grade
I
1.00 PM  TO 1.45 PM
2.05 PM TO  2.15 PM
Eng/Tel/Hindi/
Urdu
(Higher)
I
1.00 PM  TO 2.00 PM
2.20 PM  TO  2.30 PM
Eng/Tel
(Higher)
II
3.30 PM  TO  4.30 PM
4.50 PM  TO 5.00 PM



SUNDAY
22-02-2015
Junior Grade
II
1.00 PM  TO 1.45 PM
2.05 PM TO  2.15 PM
Eng./Tel
(Higher)
III
1.00 PM  TO 2.00 PM
2.20 PM  TO  2.30 PM
Eng/Tel
(Higher)
IV
3.30 PM  TO  4.30 PM
4.50 PM  TO 5.00 PM


                                                                                                                                  Sd/-  
SECRETARY

Dated:08-01-2015.


NOTE:


EXAMINATION IN PAPER-II (MANUSCRIPT) OF TYPEWRITING OF ALL GRADES SHALL BE CONDUCTED FIRST AND THE PAPER-I (SPEED) SHALL BE CONDUCTED AFTER COMPLETION OF THE PAPER-II (MANUSCRIPT) EXAMINATION.”





STATE BOARD OF T ECHNICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
ANDHRA PRADESH AND TELANGANA STATES : HYDERABAD

REVISED TIME TABLE FOR SHORTHAND EXAMINATIONS OF  FEBRUARY,2015.
SHORTHAND TELUGU AND URDU   28 -02-2015 (SATURDAY)

PAPER
LOWER
(40 WPM)
HIGHER
(60 WPM)
HIGHSPEED
(80 WPM)
HIGHSPEED
(100 WPM)
6002
8002,  8002 A
9008 A
9009 A
Paper-II
Dictation, Elaboration, 
Condensation

10.30 AM   to  12.00 

(Theory Only)

10.30 AM  to 10.37 AM
10.45 AM  to 12.45 PM

11.00 AM to 11.07 AM
11.15 AM to 12.15 PM

11.20 AM to 11.25 AM
11.30 AM to 12.30 PM


Paper-I

Dictation,
Transcription
6001
8001
9008
9009

1.30 PM to 1.40 PM
1.45 PM to 3.15 PM

2.30 PM  to 2.37 PM
2.45 PM to 4.30 PM

2.00 PM to 2.07 PM
2.15 PM to 4.00 PM

2.15 PM to 2.20 PM
2.30 PM to 3.45 PM


SHORTHAND ENGLISH     01-03-2015 (SUNDAY)

PAPER
HIGH SPEED
(150 WPM)
HIGH SPEED
(180 WPM)
HIGH SPEED
(200 WPM)
9005 A
9006 A
9007A
Paper -II
Dictation,
Condensation

10.00 AM to 10.05 AM
10.15 AM to 11.30 AM
10.30 AM  to 10.35 AM
10.40 AM to 12.10 PM
11.00 AM to 11.05 AM
11.10 AM to 12.55 PM
Paper-1
Dictation,
Transcription
9005
9006
9007
2.00 PM to 2.05 PM
2.15 PM  to 3.30 PM
2.15 PM to 2.20 PM
2.25 PM  to 3.55 PM
2.25 PM  to 2.30 PM
2.35 PM to 4.20 PM

SHORTHAND ENGLISH  01-03-2015 (SUNDAY)

PAPER

LOWER
(80 WPM)
INTER
(100 WPM)
HIGHER
(120 WPM)
5002
702,  702 A
7002
Paper- II
Dictation,
Elaboration,
Condensation
10.30 AM to 12.30 PM
(Theory only)
10.15 AM to 10.19  AM
10.30 AM  to 12.15 PM
9.30 AM  to 9.39 AM
9.45 AM to 12.00 noon



Paper- I
Dictation,
Transcription
5001
701
7001
2.30 PM to 2.37 PM
2.45 PM  to 3.45 PM
3.00 PM  to 3.07 PM
3.15 PM  to 4.30 PM
2.00 PM  to 2.07  PM
2.15 PM  to 3.45 PM









Note :     Time for transcription shall be taken into
                Account from the moment transcription is
                started and not immediately after the
                dictation is completed.
                                                                                                                                            Sd/-
SECRETARY
   Dated:29-01-2015.


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