Backspace Ink

In digital era, blue books still causing white knuckles
The Boston Globe; 10/24/2008; 942 words; ...Deprived of cut-and-paste capability and their trusty backspace button, students often feel intellectually adrift, forced...they perked up. The paper is thin, she explained. "The ink leaks through," she said. "We're going to have to ruin...

Week 734: Turnaround Time
The Washington Post; 10/6/2007; 1197 words; ...back, the results of Week 728 marked the first Invitational ink for Edmund Conti of Raleigh, a longtime wordplay aficionado...Poor Man's Pac-Man: Type a row of periods, then hold down Backspace and watch that cursor gobble 'em all up. You win every time...

Measure of a man: Music professor and composer Thomas McKenney pursues his passion on more than one emotional note.
Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO); 4/1/2007; 1430 words; ...manually dotting each note's head, only waiting until the ink dried to go in with a ruler to create the stems. A page, he...more tedious editing process than just Wite-Out or hitting backspace. That's how he remembers formal drafting while he was studying...

Measure of a man Music professor and composer Thomas McKenney pursues his passion on more than one emotional note.
Columbia Daily Tribune; 4/1/2007; 1261 words; ...manually dotting each note's head, only waiting until the ink dried to go in with a ruler to create the stems. A page, he...more tedious editing process than just Wite-Out or hitting backspace. That's how he remembers formal drafting while he was studying...

Tapping 101; Secretarial skill now essential tool.(METROPOLITAN)
The Washington Times; 2/12/2007; 1094 words; ...taking one's hand off the home row of keys or hitting the backspace key with the pointer finger. She advises students to hold their...prefer using the keyboard compared to the traditional pen-and-ink methods, Ms. Gandy says. "It's less frustrating for them...