Corrasable Bond Paper

So, you made a mistake typing that term paper on the IBM Selectric. Not a problem if you used Eaton's Corrasable Bond Paper. This stuff was a godsend for college kids. It consisted of thin typing paper, coated with a wax-like substance that could be removed with a simple pencil eraser. If you made a boo-boo, it could easily be removed and re-typed.

Eaton's was great for the typist, but not so for the reader. For one thing, the surface of the paper became extremely sticky when moist. Once a professor of mine spilled some liquid on a paper it took me hours to type, and the pages all became hopelessly glued together. Luckily he liked what he had already read, and gave me an A. The image on Corrasable was also not exactly sharp, and erasures could leave blurs. As a result, some of us would take our papers to a copying store and have them xeroxed onto plain paper.