[ale] [OT] IT Nostalgia

[Neal Rhodes]

I too recall that aroma, but that was ditto duplicator, not mimeograph. 

Mimeograph was a porous stencil on which you typed, then it was placed
on a drum which held about one gallon of black ink and was good for
thousands of copies. 

I know this as my mother ran an office business in our home and I ran
that mimeo machine quite often. 

Ditto, on the other hand, used that fluid that smelled so good and was
only good for a small number of copies. 

Neal. 

On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 20:26 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:

> On 02/24/2013 07:33 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> > Slightly closer to the OP, I still have a soft spot for the old 
> > mimeograph worksheets we used to get in school, with the purple ink 
> > and blurry typeface
> 
> And sometimes, you would get to help the teacher by making "a 
> mimeograph".  Don't forget about the particular smell.
> 
> >
> > Pete Hardie
> > --------
> > Better Living Through Bitmaps
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com 
> > <mailto:damon at damtek.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 02/24/2013 06:38 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> >
> >         On 02/24/2013 06:15 PM, Justin W Elam wrote:
> >
> >             How many more professions are becoming lost arts due to
> >             digitalization and
> >             technology?
> >
> >         Buggy whips, anyone?
> >
> >
> >
> >     I was going to say that, but since you beat me to it, how about
> >     corn harvesting, or planting, grain milling, wood planing, mining,
> >     metal working, etc etc.
> >
> >
> >
> >         Phil
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