Sedalia Dave Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Eyesa Horg Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Always liked the smell of a mimeograph copy! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Spade Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 Ditto machine!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Wouldn't "old school" be a bunch of guys sitting around with ink, pens and paper? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Sheridan Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 12 minutes ago, Griff said: Wouldn't "old school" be a bunch of guys sitting around with ink, pens and paper? Pretty sure that is referred to as showing your age when that’s your point of reference. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griff Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 9 minutes ago, Buckshot Sheridan said: Pretty sure that is referred to as showing your age when that’s your point of reference. But, since you know to what I refer, the same inference can be made, no? 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 all i can remember of "old vcopirers" os the mimeograph machines the nuns used at st patricks through eighth grade , there was nothing like that smell when they handeed them out - not sure what that was but it always dulled the fact that we had just got another assignment , thats the first reproduction equipment i remember 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) My best friend's mother was an elementary school teacher. After she retired in the 1960s she sent out a monthly mimeograph newsletter letter to family and friends. They came to be known as the "purple horror", a name she thoroughly enjoyed. Edited February 12 by J-BAR #18287 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 (edited) 17 hours ago, Griff said: Wouldn't "old school" be a bunch of guys sitting around with ink, pens and paper? That would be monks with quills. Edited February 12 by Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Sheridan Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 17 hours ago, Griff said: But, since you know to what I refer, the same inference can be made, no? I just still had the sense not to make it public. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mongo, SASS #61450 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 I started my teaching career in 1976 with these "beasts"! When I retired, all the teachers were lectured by the administration for making too many photocopies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 4 hours ago, TN Mongo, SASS #61450 said: I started my teaching career in 1976 with these "beasts"! When I retired, all the teachers were lectured by the administration for making too many photocopies. Do you remember, as I do, that one of the early justifications for getting computers was they would eliminate paperwork?? 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 In the early 1970's, at Republican HQ (Char-Meck) there were three people allowed to touch the mimeograph machine. I was one of them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 i sorta miss these old machines , but i recall when the "zerox" machines took over it was a good thing , i had the experience of "blue prints" being produced by a modern version of this at the end of my career , could produce any size and all were extremely detailed , we have come so far .... i was the guy running the blue print machine in the engineering department at a major international company when i was in high school along with doing a bit of drafting , in those days we fed it with liquid ammonia that was stored in the plant and i had to fill the bottles to bring up and feed it , that was one of the worst things my job entailed , no PPE in 1965 , the blue prints were the ones with blue lines on white paper tho not the white lines on the blue background of the 50s and before , also learned to draft with ink on vellum , instead of pencil on paper , it printed better , i never quite got to drafting on a computer ....other than some quick communications at the end of my career , sending a detailed drawing in an email ....its amazing where we have come in my lifetime , much like my grandparents that saw the late 1890s to the 1960s & 70s , one has to just sit and reflect a bit on all of it , 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TN Mongo, SASS #61450 Posted February 13 Share Posted February 13 J-Bar, computers just doubled our work at school. Not only did grades and lesson plans have to be written out, but they also had to be entered on the computer in a different format. The wife and I always kept an "old school" grade book and lesson planner because several times a year the whole school computer system would "crash and burn". The younger teachers who didn't even bother to print a copy of what was on the computer, would become suicidal. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 In 1968 I was a QC technician for the office copy Paper division of Nashua Corp.. we produced thermographic and electrostatic copy papers. This was while Xerox owned all of the patents for their process. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 "....Xerox owned all of the patents for their process...." thats why we call it a zerox copy and why we buy Kleenex and so many others , but everyone knows there are a lot of other big names that were in the industry ...i think there was a time when the recording industry had a name thing like that but i cant recall what it was at this ["biden"] moment in time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 5 hours ago, watab kid said: "....Xerox owned all of the patents for their process.. thats why we call it a zerox copy and why we buy Kleenex and so many others , but everyone knows there are a lot of other big names that were in the industry ...i think there was a time when the recording industry had a name thing like that but i cant recall what it was at this ["biden"] moment in time "Victrola"? RCA Victor's tradename for a phonograph, which became so commonly used that it became "generic"? The curse of a successful product, whose name becomes an equivalent in the market for the product, regardless of who made it. LL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 On 2/14/2024 at 6:50 AM, Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 said: "Victrola"? RCA Victor's tradename for a phonograph, which became so commonly used that it became "generic"? The curse of a successful product, whose name becomes an equivalent in the market for the product, regardless of who made it. LL thats what i re,e,ber , my grandparents had one the played 78s - later my folks had the HI FI i remember that played 33s and 45s - my folks still had a lot of 78s from their parents collection , we also had a player piano with a lot of music rolls , i kinda remember dad was always fiddlin with the player piano .....but my brother learned [taught himseld] to play on it when we were very young , today he is quite the musician - me i couldn't even play the votrola well , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rip Snorter Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 I believe that to this day, there are snap in cartridges that will let some older 33 / 45 turntables play 78 rpm. Though I have one and a bunch of my folks 78s, I haven't used it in a very long time. Part of the issue is the groove and needle matchup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 i remember the adapter and i remember the turntables that had the options of speed , our 78s and 45s are long gone before i divested my 33s [all but the ones of my families recordings ] i no longer have any others and nothing t play them on , im looking for my brother to put them on a CD i can play , the stuff on those records are my father , my brother [playing] ,and my sister [singing] id like to have that for my kids that actually got to see them perform on multiple occasions , but probably dont remember as they were very young , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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