Re: RE: old school

[quills -at- airmail -dot- net]

No, you date yourself when you mention Nash Rambler, and all you get are blank stares.

That dates you. 

Why I remember when I walked to school, uphill both ways, dodging the dinosaur herds, while a blizzard raged. And the 
sand was blowing in my eyes.

Scott

On Mon 08/05/19 08:18 , "Hemstreet, Deborah"  sent:
> And remember those old big bulky tapes that were supposed to catch on
> instead of cassette tapes???
> 
> I remember having some songs I loved on those, and all too quickly,
> totally useless.....
> 
> Of course then there was the phonograph?
> 
> My husband and I reminisced about some records the other day, and our
> daughters asked what they were... :(
> 
> I think I just dated myself!!!!
> 
> Deborah
> 
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bounces+dhemstreet=kaydon -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] OnBehalf Of Suzette Leeming
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> echwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- comSubject: Re: old school
> 
> Thanks to all who remembered the name - they were mimeograph and ditto
> machines - they were two different (but somewhat similar) technologies
> and
> when you mentioned the smell of ditto copies, I could almost smell it
> again!
> 
> 
> Ah, the technology that has come and gone in such a relatively short
> time!
> 
> Suzette Leeming
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Fred Ridder docudoc -at- h
> otmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > > Mimeograph? That has a drum and makes "dittos" of
> things, at leastthat's
> > > what I heard the copies called. But I don't know
> about the holepunching
> > > thing.
> >
> > Mimeograph and ditto were two different
> technologies.>
> > With ditto every character you typed when making the
> master deposted> some pigment from one sheet of the 2-part stencil form
> onto anothersheet.
> > Then you put the stencil on a drum that contained a
> volatile (andprobably
> > toxic) solvent that dissolved part of the deposited
> pigment andallowed it
> > to be deposited on a specially coated copy stock. The
> drawbacks ofditto
> > systems (aka "spirit duplicators") were that you could
> only make about> 30-40 clear copies before the pigment deposited on the
> stencil wouldbe
> > depleted and the copies would become illegible, and the
> duplicatedcopies
> > were purple. The advantage was that the copies smelled
> great if the> teacher had just run them off a few minutes before
> class.>
> > I don't know exactly what the mimeograph technology
> was, but it was> good for more like a few hundred legible copies from
> each master, and> the images were reproduced in black and did not have
> that wonderful> solvent smell. Not nearly so interesting to elementary
> schoolstudents...
> >
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