RE: old school

[Keith Hood <klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Ah, the pleasures of carbon paper and whiteout on
8-part forms.

When I was in the Army, the personnel office got a
wonderful state of the art huge improvement in how it
did papers. Up until 1981, everything was on electric
typewriters with carbon copies. Then they got a Wang
word processor. It had 512k of memory and used 8-inch
floppies. The operational mechanism was in a tower
larger than a standard file cabinet, built into a desk
with an integral terminal; dang thing looked like
something out of a NASA control room. 

Anybody else remember the RMS operating system and
Arcnet?


--- Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:

> > From: Suzette Leeming
> [mailto:suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com] 
> 
> > I've used typetype machines, and those machines
> that
> > made copies (I forget the name, but you used the
> typewriter
> > to punch holes in the paper and put it on an inked
> drum).
> 
> Mimeograph?  That has a drum and makes "dittos" of
> things, at least that's
> what I heard the copies called.  But I don't know
> about the hole punching
> thing.
> 
> Lauren
> 
> 
>
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert to
> Help file formats or 
> printed documentation. Features include support for
> Windows Vista & 2007 
> Microsoft Office, team authoring, plus more.
> http://www.DocToHelp.com/TechwrlList
> 
> True single source, conditional content, PDF export,
> modular help.
> Help & Manual is the most powerful authoring tool
> for technical
> documentation. Boost your productivity!
> http://www.helpandmanual.com
> 
> ---
> You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as
> klhra -at- yahoo -dot- com -dot- 
> 
> To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
> techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> or visit
>
http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/klhra%40yahoo.com
> 
> 
> To subscribe, send a blank email to
> techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> 
> Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 
> Visit
> http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and
> info.
> 
> 



      
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Create HTML or Microsoft Word content and convert to Help file formats or 
printed documentation. Features include support for Windows Vista & 2007 
Microsoft Office, team authoring, plus more.
http://www.DocToHelp.com/TechwrlList

True single source, conditional content, PDF export, modular help.
Help & Manual is the most powerful authoring tool for technical
documentation. Boost your productivity! http://www.helpandmanual.com

---
You are currently subscribed to TECHWR-L as archive -at- web -dot- techwr-l -dot- com -dot- 

To unsubscribe send a blank email to 
techwr-l-unsubscribe -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
or visit http://lists.techwr-l.com/mailman/options/techwr-l/archive%40web.techwr-l.com


To subscribe, send a blank email to techwr-l-join -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com

Send administrative questions to admin -at- techwr-l -dot- com -dot-  Visit
http://www.techwr-l.com/ for more resources and info.