Nov 21
Terry B asked:
This is a strange question maybe, but I recall in the mid to late 80’s in school getting worksheets that were printed and copied by teachers for us students. They were a generally a blue ink copy that was was smeary and hard to read with lots of other artifact marks on the paper. I think the copies came out of a copier that had a manual crank that turned two steel rollers. It was clear they had a master copy they got out of some teacher’s workbook or something and them mass produced copies of it. Was this some sort of carbon copy machine or is it something else? Hopefully this isn’t too vague. All my co-workers have no idea what I’m talking about. Thanks for the help.
This is a strange question maybe, but I recall in the mid to late 80’s in school getting worksheets that were printed and copied by teachers for us students. They were a generally a blue ink copy that was was smeary and hard to read with lots of other artifact marks on the paper. I think the copies came out of a copier that had a manual crank that turned two steel rollers. It was clear they had a master copy they got out of some teacher’s workbook or something and them mass produced copies of it. Was this some sort of carbon copy machine or is it something else? Hopefully this isn’t too vague. All my co-workers have no idea what I’m talking about. Thanks for the help.
November 24th, 2008 at 5:44 am
Called the mimeograph machine. I remember the smell well.
November 26th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Mimeographs!
I still have some old ones because my mother was a teacher in the 80s. I also have carbon paper and onion skin typing paper! LOL!!!
Remember when scantrons were new?
We had “Iowa tests” in Ohio. I still remember taking those and writing directly on the paper. The first scantron I took was in high school.
Now the kids start using them in 1st grade!
November 29th, 2008 at 10:00 am
In my school, we called those worksheets “dittos,” and I remember them well. I don’t know how they made them, having been a kid at the time, but wow they were hard to read.
I haven’t thought about them in years! Thanks for bringing back a childhood memory!
November 30th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
The other term is a Gestetner, for the inventor.