Airehead Posted August 17, 2020 Share #1 Posted August 17, 2020 What an improvement over mimeograph. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted August 17, 2020 Share #2 Posted August 17, 2020 That's a great price! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dottleshead ★ Posted August 17, 2020 Share #3 Posted August 17, 2020 Just now, Razors Edge said: That's a great price! Ditto 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2Far ★ Posted August 17, 2020 Share #4 Posted August 17, 2020 And they smelled good. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share #5 Posted August 18, 2020 10 minutes ago, 2Far said: And they smelled good. Best part of being a teacher was that you always got to smell them. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerrySTL ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #6 Posted August 18, 2020 3 minutes ago, Airehead said: Best part of being a teacher was that you always got to smell them. I'm pretty sure that some of my teachers sniffed glue instead. It would explain a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #7 Posted August 18, 2020 Isn’t ditto the same as mimeograph? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share #8 Posted August 18, 2020 6 minutes ago, Philander Seabury said: Isn’t ditto the same as mimeograph? No, mimeograph had to be typed as a stencil and black ink when in the drum. Ditto was sold as ink less because the ink was actually in the ditto master and you could write or draw on them. Machine just had the toxic, flammable liquid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #9 Posted August 18, 2020 Just now, Airehead said: No, mimeograph had to be typed as a stencil and black ink when in the drum. Ditto was sold as ink less because the ink was actually in the ditto master and you could write or draw on them. Machine just had the toxic, flammable liquid. We used to call the blue stuff mimeograph, but I guess we were wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share #10 Posted August 18, 2020 Ditto machines were also known as spirit duplicators. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share #11 Posted August 18, 2020 1 minute ago, Philander Seabury said: We used to call the blue stuff mimeograph, but I guess we were wrong. Yep, lots of people did. Some schools had both. High tech in the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share #12 Posted August 18, 2020 And I believe the A.B, Dick Company filled for bankruptcy because of the electronic copier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted August 18, 2020 Share #13 Posted August 18, 2020 52 minutes ago, Airehead said: Best part of being a teacher was that you always got to smell them. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudge ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #14 Posted August 18, 2020 Why did we love that smell so much??!! I don't know why, but we did. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted August 18, 2020 Share #15 Posted August 18, 2020 18 minutes ago, BR46 said: People did that in my HS too. Growing up in coastal SoCal in the early 80’s that was a pretty good snapshot of my HS. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bikeguy Posted August 18, 2020 Share #16 Posted August 18, 2020 40 minutes ago, smudge said: Why did we love that smell so much??!! I don't know why, but we did. 1 hour ago, Airehead said: Machine just had the toxic, flammable liquid. I guess toxic chemicals smell good... The duplicating fluid typically consisted of a 50/50 mix of isopropanol and methanol, both of which were inexpensive, readily available in quantity, evaporated quickly, and would not wrinkle the paper. In 1938,[7] a nonflammable solvent was invented by Johan Bjorksten to allow the possibility of using electrically driven machines without the concern of the flammability of pure methyl/ethyl alcohol. "A composition composed of 10% of trichlorofluoromethane and 90% of a mixture of 50% methyl alcohol, 40% ethyl alcohol, 5% water and 5% of ethylene glycol mono-ethyl ether. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #17 Posted August 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Airehead said: What an improvement over mimeograph. I remember running off dittoes or having my senior aides do it. Eventually we switched to photocopies. They didn't smell as good. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 18, 2020 Share #18 Posted August 18, 2020 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #19 Posted August 18, 2020 We had dittos back in grade school 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share #20 Posted August 18, 2020 9 hours ago, MickinMD said: I remember running off dittoes or having my senior aides do it. Eventually we switched to photocopies. They didn't smell as good. What year was this? In 1988 we had both copier and ditto. You could make all the dittos you wanted but you were limited to 50 copies a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted August 18, 2020 Share #21 Posted August 18, 2020 16 minutes ago, Airehead said: What year was this? In 1988 we had both copier and ditto. You could make all the dittos you wanted but you were limited to 50 copies a month. This. I started teaching in 1993. I made dittos of everything. In addition to the smell, they were cool to the touch. Students liked that “just printed freshness.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share #22 Posted August 18, 2020 2 hours ago, roadsue said: This. I started teaching in 1993. I made dittos of everything. In addition to the smell, they were cool to the touch. Students liked that “just printed freshness.” Did you keep them safely with tissue between the dittos so you could use them again next year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted August 18, 2020 Author Share #23 Posted August 18, 2020 Did you have books like this? Ditto Master books were important and we hoarded them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #24 Posted August 18, 2020 4 hours ago, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said: You win. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #25 Posted August 18, 2020 14 hours ago, JerrySTL said: I'm pretty sure that some of my teachers sniffed glue instead. It would explain a lot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 18, 2020 Share #26 Posted August 18, 2020 1 minute ago, jsharr said: You win. I was shocked to find exactly the clip I was looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #27 Posted August 18, 2020 2 minutes ago, F_in Ray Of Sunshine said: I was shocked to find exactly the clip I was looking for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F_in Ray Of Sunshine Posted August 18, 2020 Share #28 Posted August 18, 2020 2 hours ago, Airehead said: I bet Stanley could solve that I bet Stanley could solve that mystery! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattlecan ★ Posted August 18, 2020 Share #29 Posted August 18, 2020 I remember it being a big deal when I was in grade school in the early 60s when you got to operate the hand cranked Gestetner to make handouts for everybody. Yeah, there were some fumes involved as I remember. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoseySusan Posted August 18, 2020 Share #30 Posted August 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Airehead said: Did you have books like this? Ditto Master books were important and we hoarded them. I didn’t have pre-inked materials. But I did get to use the heat transfer machine with my originals. And I made a hella stack of transparencies for the overhead projector. I saved the extra laminating film that got cut to give to students with a dry erase marker so they could share out their own answers on the overhead. That was high-tech sustainably back in the day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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