Another 70's school memories

[mitchedwards]

Anyone else remember the teacher using the ditto machine to print out your tests? I loved the blue ink and the wonderful smell attached to the paper. Anyone else remember the pre-copier days?

[HardyGirl]

I remember something being wrong w/ our mimeograph copier once in 4th grade, I think. The smell was literally enough to get you high! One kid got sick from it! Well, we got out of doing that assignment til the next day, 'cos the teacher threw out all those papers, and copied them again the following day when the machine was fixed!

[mitchedwards]

I remember something being wrong w/ our mimeograph copier once in 4th grade, I think. The smell was literally enough to get you high! One kid got sick from it! Well, we got out of doing that assignment til the next day, 'cos the teacher threw out all those papers, and copied them again the following day when the machine was fixed!

I remember test papers like that, some of them would be very wet in spots, where the ditto fluid would have leaked out of the machine and onto the paper

[Mikey]

Oh yes

I'm not sure if this is the same machine, but many of my teachers used to refer to a mimiograph machine (for copying)

I can still smell the freshly copied papers

[Shanester]

moist, stinky papers with bluish ink? yep, I remember them well.

I also remember talking to some of the older kids at the bus stop, who had sneaked into Scarface at the local theater. I think it just hit its 25th anniversary recently.

[mitchedwards]

Was it me, or did the ink kinda smell like bubble gum?

[txteach]

Thank god those don't exist today. We have a copy room that takes care of all of that now.

[kryptosmaster]

Those were cool. I can almost remember the smell. I wonder if that is a dead technology or if they are still used anywhere?
Rich

[Adam West]

I thought it smelled similar to magic markers.

When I was in the 4th grade; our teacher allowed us to do a class newspaper and run it through the mimeograph. It was a big silver machine that had some type of rolling mechanism on it that would spit out the wet purple copies.

Another teacher saw one of our papers and recommended to our teacher that our paper was not a very good use of school resources so that came abruptly to a halt.

[megoscott]

My folks were both teachers. I remember making copies of my coloring books on the ditto machine.

[kryptosmaster]

I thought it smelled similar to magic markers.

Another teacher saw one of our papers and recommended to our teacher that our paper was not a very good use of school resources so that came abruptly to a halt.

LOL!
I'll bet she had granny glasses, a "Miss Grundy" (from Archie comics) bun hairdo, never smiled and was "Miss" something (unmarried and frustrated Old Maid).


Rich