MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> > > Most people don't even remember ditto machines/copies.
> >
> > I don't think I ever encountered spirit duplicators, but I do remember
> "stencillers"
> > as they were colloquially known. Interestingly, they're still available, albeit in
> a
> > fully automated, high-speed, digital form known as RISO.
>
> It's funny, the small Catholic elementary/junior high I went to used mimeographs
> right up until I graduated in 1991. I remember the ink being purple-ish, but I have
> no recollection at all of the copies having any particular smell.

I don't think I'll ever forget. 8th grade science class, we had a test one day.... It was 5 or 6 pages stapled together. One page I turn to looked completely blank, I thought it was strange, but just chalked it up to the teacher making a mistake. So, I turn to the next page and continued taking the test. The next day we (as a class) graded them. This worked by passing them out to different students (you weren't allowed to grade your own test). At some point another classmate raised their hand and exclaimed that a page wasn't done/filled out. Sure enough, it was mine.

For whatever reason, that particular page was printed much lighter than the others. At that point I could THEN see questions. I would've known and been able to answer them. But there was no way to complete it at that point.

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