[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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