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--- Forwarded Message from "Dente, Ed" <[log in to unmask]> ---
>From: "Dente, Ed" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "'Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum'" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RE: #7142.8 Tracking software (!)
>Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:41:32 -0400
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> Ditto machines were a major improvement. When you typed, the purple
> (or even other colors) material was pressed onto the ditto master...
> kind of like a glob of dry ink in the shape of letters that then
> transferred to regular paper copies by means of the spirit fluid (that
> good smelling stuff!). Some of us got to be really good with
> an Exacto
> knife to "carve" correct letters from mistakes on the masters.
>
> The only problem was that students could tell if you were
> procrastinating... hard to quickly get rid of the spirit smell.
>
> The current generation of techies missed out on real fun (not!)... I
> don't mind relegating the "good old days" to a distant memory.
In the mid-'80s when one of my assistants laughed at our "obsolete"
mimeo/ditto machines I gently reminded her that Lenin had made the entire
Russian Revolution with one of these guys* (however, not, I think, with one
of ours, although I suppose it was possible), so she should be more
respectful of the technology.
She still laughed.
(*Edison invented the mimeograph machine in 1875, so they were long in
service by then.)
Ed
"If you want to call me that, smile."
-Gary Cooper, <<The Virginian>>
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