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These were the modern version of Fountain Pens, which used a watery ink in those little cartridges. I was in elementary school in the 60s, and when you got to 3rd grade, it was time to learn to write Cursive, and ball point pens were prohibited, for some reason. We were required to use these types of Fountain Pens,.probably because it was traditional, and some ancient old school curriculum writer couldn't let go. In 4th grade, we could use ball points, but for learning, it had to be Fountain Pens.
It took a minute for the ink to dry. In the olden days, people would keep a big curved thing on their desk with a pad on the curved side, and a knob on the flat side. When they'd sign something, they'd roll the pad over the signature, and sop up the excess wet ink, drying it instantly.
My problem was that I was left handed, so as I wrote, I would drag the side of my palm across the wet ink. The side of my palm was always black from pencil graphite anyway, and now I was adding blue ink to it as well, along with smearing ink across the page. I hated fountain pens, and switched to ball points as soon as I could.
I also hated cursive. By 6th grade, I was writing everything in capital letters, with small caps for lower case. I write that way to this day, many decades later.