From: karl@news.simons-rock.edu (Karl A. Krueger) Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 2 Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers References: <6vl5a3$tba$8@ligarius.ultra.net> <6vqhdj$1jq$13@irk.zetnet.co.uk> Reply-To: karl@simons-rock.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.simons-rock.edu Message-ID: <3620f2b7.0@news.wizvax.net> Date: 11 Oct 1998 14:02:31 -0500 X-Trace: 11 Oct 1998 14:02:31 -0500, plato.simons-rock.edu Lines: 28 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed.wizvax.net!news.wizvax.net!karl lisard@zetnet.co.uk wrote: : :Remember ditto machines? : Erm, nope. ;> When I was in kindergarten, I thought the school's mimeo machine was almost as cool as the family Commodore 64. After all, the C=64 was just a computer, but the mimeo machine could turn clear liquid into purple ink! :) A ditto machine, or mimeo machine, or mimeograph was a device, usually crank-operated, for producing copies from a mimeo master. Making a mimeo master is a process similar to using carbon paper, and you can do it either by ballpoint or typewriter (or line printer, but if your school could afford computers it could afford a photocopier!) (What, you've never seen carbon paper?! Ask someone who used to go dumpster diving for credit card carbons.) You put the master on the machine's drum, make sure the reservoir is full of ditto fluid (which is clear and smells sort of like gasoline or alcohol, IIRC), make sure there's paper in it, and crank the crank once for every copy you want to make. Somehow, the clear liquid in the reservoir is transformed into purple ink on the page. The teachers would never tell me how. -- Karl A. Krueger -- karl@simons-rock.edu ###### From: crosby@nag.cs.colorado.edu (Matthew Crosby) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 2 Date: 11 Oct 1998 19:20:24 GMT Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 16 Message-ID: <6vr0dp$en4$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> References: <6vl5a3$tba$8@ligarius.ultra.net> <6vqhdj$1jq$13@irk.zetnet.co.uk> <3620f2b7.0@news.wizvax.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: nag.cs.colorado.edu Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news.belnet.be!newsgate.cistron.nl!het.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!bofh.vszbr.cz!newsfeed.wli.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!denver-news-feed1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!coop.net!csnews!nag.cs.colorado.edu!crosby In article <3620f2b7.0@news.wizvax.net>, Karl A. Krueger wrote: >lisard@zetnet.co.uk wrote: >: :Remember ditto machines? >: Erm, nope. ;> > >When I was in kindergarten, I thought the school's mimeo machine was >almost as cool as the family Commodore 64. After all, the C=64 was >just a computer, but the mimeo machine could turn clear liquid into >purple ink! :) ...plus C64s don't give that wonderful, intoxicating smell. -- Matthew Crosby crosby@cs.colorado.edu Disclaimer: It was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead. ###### From: harter@feeding.frenzy.com (Sam Hayes Merritt, III) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: YKYBHTL... 2 Message-ID: <3625725b.93345773@207.207.0.105> References: <6vl5a3$tba$8@ligarius.ultra.net> <6vqhdj$1jq$13@irk.zetnet.co.uk> <3620f2b7.0@news.wizvax.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:20:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.90.217.167 X-Trace: news.giganews.com 908205601 207.90.217.167 (Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:20:01 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:20:01 CDT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!news.maxwell.syr.edu!feeder.qis.net!feed1.news.rcn.net!rcn!nntp.giganews.com!news.giganews.com!not-for-mail On 11 Oct 1998 14:02:31 -0500, karl@news.simons-rock.edu (Karl A. Krueger) wrote: >but if your school could afford computers it could afford a photocopier!) Yes, but tis wasn't cheaper to use a copier till just a few years ago. I graduated high school in 1994 and remember getting miemographed sheets even that last year... ahh the smell. Last week, my teacher friend informed me that they have a 'copy girl' who's sole job is to run the photocopiers that have replaced their mimeo machiens. Sam