When we demo, usually one of the first things I say is “You have digital records” because almost every organization is moving towards having more and more of their content in document management systems of some stripe.
But it’s always interesting to read about the tiny fraction that aren’t, like New York Police Department, which still spends a third of a million dollars every year on typewriters.
Most of the city’s arrest forms have been computerized, but property and evidence vouchers printed on carbon-paper forms still require the use of typewriters.
…officials are working on software that would eliminate the need for the typewriters.