Mimeograph

[Ptah]

Copycat of a copying process, again.

duplicate

[texanwitch]

1. I will never forget the smell of the purple math worksheets at school.

Just how did the machine work.

[Richardo]

2. Mmmmmmm sweet wonderful duplicator fluid

Smelled SO good and chemical-y.

[hyphenate]

3. Sometimes inhaling the liquid was

a trip unto itself. I worked with the regular black mimeograph, and the purple ditto machine. Yikes--it seems like yesterday, when it's actually been about 30 something years.

[Auggie]

4. Today's kids don't know what they're missing

[Brigid]

5. I remember it too.

The whippersnappers are so deprived. :)

[Kali]

6. sniff

snif sniff

needs smellovision

[targetpractice]

7. Actually, that's not a Mimeograph...

That's a "ditto machine" or Spirit duplicator which uses an alcohol based solvent to transfer images from the wax-based ditto master. The "duplicator fluid" solvent is responsible for the smell we all remember.

Mimeographs were invented by Thomas Edison and used traditional ink and stencil transfers.

Ditto machines were often called mimeographs much like all brands of tissue are often called kleenexes. ;-)

[struggle4progress]

8. Mimeograph ink. Yecch. Peeling the gooey perforated stencil off the drum at the end

was a mess. I always ended up spattered with that stuff

[targetpractice]

10. I never used one myself, but...

My former employer has a showcase of them in the lobby of their corporate headquarters. www.mimeo.com

I used ditto machines quite often as I was the teacher's pet. ;-)

[Ptah]

9. .

:cry:

[targetpractice]

11. I only know because I worked for Mimeo.com...

They stole the name. ;-)

[Ptah]

12. Did Mimeo.com buy out

ThomEd.com?

[Iggo]

14. I've got a boss who still asks me to xerox stuff for him.

But he's like a hundred.

[704wipes]

13. finally went out about same time as the Coda Phone went out

I think...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Codaphone!

We had one of those, a million years ago!

I had forgotten it!

It worked, though...

Wow. You took me back...waaaaaaaaaaay back!

Thank you!

:wow:

:hi:

[targetpractice]

16. What the heck is that?

What's it do?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

17. Cutting the stencil -

I did so many of those, and if you made an error, you had this plastic-type stuff in a bottle with a brush that you put on the error, waited for it to try, and then typed the correction.

What a pain in the ass that was, but it was the only way.

People today have no idea how hard we had to work, all those years ago.........................