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From Tom Browder
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In response to Even more OT: Ditto machines [was: bottom / top posting]  ("Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@mailpen.com>)
Responses Re: Even more OT: Ditto machines [was: bottom / top posting]  (Rob Sargent <robjsargent@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 15:52 Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) <postgresql@mailpen.com> wrote:
On 2021-06-10 13:21, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
On 2021-06-09 14:41:47 -0700, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote:
... when paper memos were the norm ... 
... before photocopiers were invented...
Tom mentioned "old-timers."  Remember "Ditto" machines?  Remember the odor?  They were in common use when I was in high school (1960).

Indeed I "ditto" remember them! And the smell was the prize for running an errand for the teacher to pick up copies from the Mimeograph room.

-Tom

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