On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 7:11:21 PM UTC-4, Diesel wrote:
Uncle Monster
Mon, 08
Aug 2016 04:01:41 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

When I was a kid, I remember going to the school office, hearing
loud mechanical noises and smelling something that I thought a bit
odd. Someone said it was the mimeograph machine. This was many
years before kids said WTF, at least out loud. When was the last
time you saw one of these beasts? ^_^

Hehehe. Those were in some of the grade schools i've had the... ehm,
pleasure of attending some years ago.

http://tinyurl.com/z28jt43

It's been a very long time.

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MID:
Hmmm. I most certainly don't understand how I can access a copy of a
zip file but then not be able to unzip it so I can watch it. That
seems VERY clever!
http://al.howardknight.net/msgid.cgi?ID=145716711400

heck when i started working in 1975, i repaired office machines, including ditto machines that made those blue copies, the alcohol smelled good.

mimeograph machines black copies. kinda messy. mimiograph machines are still in use today, they are called risograph. basically a automated mimieo machine.

sold and repaired coated paper copiers, both wet toner and dry poweder machines, overhead projectors, thermofax machines. some system 80 teaching machines that used a record and card guilde..

currently i repair and sell laminating machines that put plastic on paper