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Subject:RE: old school From:"Hemstreet, Deborah" <DHemstreet -at- kaydon -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 19 May 2008 11:58:13 -0400
Yup - That's it! 8 Track tapes...
I still remember enjoying "In the jungle the might jungle, the lion
sleeps tonight.."
Which, by the way, some new guy sang on the radio the other day like it
was a new hit or something - a horrid rendition of the original
<sigh>
Back to work....
Deborah
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Behalf Of Melissa Nelson
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 10:52 AM
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Subject: RE: old school
Are you talking about 8 Track tapes? My first car had an 8 Track tape
player...I remember they were supposed to be so wonderful because the
tape could not come out like it did with cassettes. I think they died
out about six months after I bought a supply of them for my car :)
I just dated myself as well!
Melissa
> Subject: RE: old school> Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:18:41 -0400> From:
DHemstreet -at- kaydon -dot- com> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> > 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> > -----Original Message-----> From:
techwr-l-bounces+dhemstreet=kaydon -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+dhemstreet=kaydon -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On>
Behalf Of Suzette Leeming> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 9:05 AM> To: Fred
Ridder> Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Subject: 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 m
entioned 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- hotmail -dot- com>> wrote:> > >> > > 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.> >> > 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 another>
sheet.> > Then you put the stencil on a drum that contained a volatile
(and> probably> > toxic) solvent that dissolved part of the deposited
pigment and> allowed it> > to be deposited on a specially coated copy
stock. The drawbacks of> ditto> > systems (aka "spirit duplicators")
were that you could only make about> > 30-40 clear copies before the
pigmen
t deposited on the stencil would> be> > depleted and the copies would
become illegible, and the duplicated> copies> > 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 school> students...> >
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