[LMB] OT: 1st SF, was Andre Norton works at Project Gutenberg
Mark Allums
mark at allums.com
Sat May 12 05:46:25 BST 2007
Tzivia Adler wrote:
> *does anyone remember the really smelly purple ink that smelled worse as the
> hot cylinder rolled around to ink page after page? and what a miracle it
> seemed, to have enough copies to hand out to the whole class/school
Absolutely, and we called them mimeographs or spirit duplicators, the
spirit being methanol, and smelling the page was actually give everyone
a dose. It was great, we knew what "hot off the presses" meant.
--Mark Allums
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