[EclipseFour20]

When the term "xerox this" was part of the everyday lexicon.

Back the "early days" the only office copy machine available was a Xerox monster (4-7 feet long) requiring a trained/certified "key operator" to unjam it, and each morning their primary task was to: clean the "corona wires", fill up the toner and load paper. Break one of those corona wires and no copy machine. It took a 7-10 days for Xerox to ship you one....lol.

And "fax machines" required special thermal "fax paper" that came on those tiny rolls. Run out of paper over the weekend...no fax (memory back in these days was super expensive).

Anyone but me remember programing/coding on 8088s? "Machine Programming" is what some of us called it....lol.

[Jahnice]

Originally Posted by aridbud

What other use for Silly putty?

aridbud, this one's for YOU!





i brought the egg along to icmag 420 so now you can say you were there in spirit

[Jahnice]

do you remember the smell of the fresh print from those old Gestatner or Gastetner
copy machines with the blue ink. i would sniff my freshly printed exam pages like crazy.
maybe that is why i was a solid C student.

[Ph-patrol]

Hey Jahnice
I love the cool container and that lovely frosty bud.Back in the day film containers were my container of choice.

Silly putty was invented during WW2 by accident in an a attempt to create a synthetic rubber. Factoid

[Betterhaff]

Here ya go Jahnice…for the old “Ditto” machines.

[gekolite]

what's wrong with carbon paper ?

[aridbud]

Ahhh, yes...Silly Putty container. Thanks for the memories! Altoid canisters seemed to have replaced as far as portable stash receptacle! ;o)

Mmmm....and the "mimeograph" paper, handed out for tests in grade school. Everyone (probably even the teacher) took a deep sniff as papers were passed out.

Anyone eat gobs of the peppermint paste in the arts & crafts cabinet?!!! Haaa!

Those were the days......

[Jahnice]

Originally Posted by Ph-patrol

Hey Jahnice
I love the cool container and that lovely frosty bud.Back in the day film containers were my container of choice.

Silly putty was invented during WW2 by accident in an a attempt to create a synthetic rubber. Factoid

factoid, i always have a good laugh when i check in on this thread.


back in the day...
yes, i am also old enough to have had a film canister stash.
thankfully at one point in my life my stash container had to be much bigger.
i bet it is a big trend in art school right now.
totally retro pot style

'Ditto' and 'mimiograph' are 2 words i have not heard in a long time.
'carbon paper' is also a good one but i still have some in the desk drawer for a real typewriter.
yeah, that's right---- tick tick tick

[DickAnubis]

Ahh to be granted the glorious job of cranking the Mimo when Mrs. Beelzebub needed fresh pop quizes. Social Studies, 6th Grade and the paper moist with solvent and fuzzy blue words. It would be a few more years before I'd find the bliss of Panama Red but that blue exlixir was truly the gateway. Yes, I'm saying it.
Pop Quizes are a gateway drug!

As for typewriters, I recently bought a sweet 1956 Olympia portable. $10 off a vendor at the flea. Ribbons still available on Amazon.
Sure, I love my word processor and even this magic pencil box I tap on now, but the typwriter evokes Vonnegut, Chandler, Sayers, all those scribes banging the keys breaking nails (male and female alike), sipping scotch, smoking filterless cigarettes into the bleary morning hours.

So when I started toking, Warchild was a new release and I purchased it on 8-track!!

"Old? to a peach I am ancient, to a head of lettuce even more so, but to a mountain I have not yet begun in years. For a man I am just right." - Chiun, Master of Sinanju

DA

[noyd666]

when ya start putting your pajamas on at 5.30 pm.