Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 24, 1978
Transcript:
Rick: Charlie, I need a good portable! I jsut got hit with the Carter gig! Man: Yeah, I heard, man! So dig it - I'm lettin' you sign out ol' Bessie herself! This little Royal's done it all, Rick! She's been to Asia with Joe Alsop, on the campaign trail with Haynes Johnson, to Haight-Ashbury with Nick Von Hoffman... and see that chip? Bessie took a piece of front-line shrapnel there during the Six Day War! This baby's pure Pulitzer, man! Rick: But the keys stick, Charlie... Man: And she needs a new ribbon, too. But you don't recondition history, man!