Ted’s typed response…

Ted was so moved by my note, he rescued his dusty typewriter from the closet, hand-inked the ribbon and found a stamp.  We’re going to visit my office machine store together when he can find a moment between gigs.  (He told me a tragic story about how he was at AB C Studios one afternoon and saw a cart full of IBM Selectrics being taken out of the corporate offices.  He was tempted to save them but bureaucracy frowned.  He watched them get banished to the dumpster and said it was devastating.)