NYPD signing million dollar yearly contracts for typewriters
 

with how it works in new york, there are backdoor deals and kickbacks with everything, but it takes some balls to keep using typewriters

Public records show that the city signed a $432,900 contract for typewriter maintenance with Afax Business Machines in 2008, as well as a $99,570 contract with that company in 2009. Typewriter company Swintec received a $982,269 contract from the city in 2007.


http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/13/...ers/index.html

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh fuckin' Gov't at work!!

What we need is for more government regulation and taxation so the gov can manage our money and resources for us better than we can!

Government is always good for a laugh.

Wonder who got the paper supply contract? Oh and storage, and secretaries to manage the paperwork... man computers really fucked alot of people out of jobs!

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That makes me sad.

If they didnt do it the typewriter industry would be asking for a multi billion dollar bailout.

no ... wait ... retro style 2009 :1orglaugh

no shit, i thought all or most of those companies were dead, guess not in NY

what's a typewriter? i think i remember something like that from a museum

Well I guess there are somethings that might need a typewriter for. Maybe documents that have seals on them things like that?

A lot of police departments still used typewriters to fill out their daily reports. Having multiple typewriters for multiple officers as opposed to multiple computers is probably cheaper and easier to maintain, although that does seem like quite an excessive "maintenance contract."

I'd be interested to know how many typewriters this covers... the figure means nothing without knowing the per unit cost...