Does anyone remember mimeograph machines?

[MarkII]

Now I'm hungry!

Down boy! Sit!

 

[MarkII]

Maybe it was just a Pavlovian responce - you associated that smell with a test!

No, we used to get mimeo handouts in class too. And I had no anxiety about tests because I usually did well on them. The odor of fresh mimeo copies irritated my nose and sometimes also made my eyes water.

 

[fyrwrxz]

How bout' "rotary phones"? Even better, anyone have a candlestick phone?

There is "old" and then there is "ancient".....
Took one of my sons over to his Grandmother's house. We visted for a while and he wanted to call a friend to come over and play. I pointed at the phone (not thinking) and said "Call him". He stood there for about five minutes and came over and whispered in my ear "Dad-how do you make it work? There's no buttons..." I laffed mao because he'd never seen a rotary phone!

 

[gdiscenza]

I thought that was Quasimodo ??

Krusty

No, but he's a dead ringer for the other guy....

G.D.

 

[krusty]

No, but he's a dead ringer for the other guy....

G.D.

:rofl:

Krusty

 

[SteveA]

How bout' "rotary phones"?

And party lines. 3 shorts and a long ring was us. No, I don't live in Hooterville...but close.

 

[kpklein]

Every time I smelled the ink it meant "TEST". And the paste in the jars that smelled like peppermint or something, kids would eat it. Still use a 1930's rotary phone. If I got rid of my TV,VCR, and DVD player, microwave and stereo, I would be living in the 1930's. No problem.

 

[thomcat00]

There is "old" and then there is "ancient".....
Took one of my sons over to his Grandmother's house. We visted for a while and he wanted to call a friend to come over and play. I pointed at the phone (not thinking) and said "Call him". He stood there for about five minutes and came over and whispered in my ear "Dad-how do you make it work? There's no buttons..." I laffed mao because he'd never seen a rotary phone!

My twin boys had NEVER seen a rotary phone at the time, but when they had their vision checked at the age of 3, the test was all icons. One was a Ma Bell style phone with the handset cradled on top. Asked to identify the icon, they both answered "telephone," without any pause. They were tested separately, the second couldn't hear the first's answers, the icons were in different orders, and they didn't talk about the test with each other until after it was done. How'd they know what it was?

I remember Ditto machines and mimeographs. Never knew how the mimeo worked but I tried the Ditto papers, and yes, I did inhale.

 

[les]

I used to be one of those "AV Geeks" and would get to school early and help run the duplicator machine. Plus set up and run the movie projectors

 

[JohnNGA]

How bout' "rotary phones"? Even better, anyone have a candlestick phone?

Retired from MaBell, I've collected a lot of telephone equipment over time. Got the candlestick, also sets from 1920 on. Most all still work, they were made to last.

 

[luke strawwalker]

Yeah, my grandmother's house had one wall-mount in the front bedroom of the house, old rotary phone about the size of a pay phone (remember those?? LOL) When I moved in, I patched in a line to the side room that I made into an air conditioned bedroom for myself (her house was not insulated or air conditioned!) so I'd have a phone... As she got older and couldn't get to the phone before whomever was calling gave up and hung up I ran a second line to a small cheapy phone beside her chair in the dining room/TV room... worked well.

The phone company finally came out and removed the old rotary when it finally was SO old it couldn't interface with their button-tone system anymore... (this one used to emit a stream of "clicks" for every number you dialed...)

Later! OL JR

 

[cerving]

My wife's grandmother had a 40's era wall-mount rotary phone, to be the best of my knowledge it's still there. (One of her grandsons lives in the house now.) Many years ago, my niece (who was about 10 at the time) tried to use it, she kept pressing her fingers into the holes and said, "This phone isn't working, I don't hear any beeps!"

Retired from MaBell, I've collected a lot of telephone equipment over time. Got the candlestick, also sets from 1920 on. Most all still work, they were made to last.

 

[JohnNGA]

When started out with ATT it was one of those jobs you thought would be around forever. I mean everyone would always have a phone, right?... just didn't know that one day it would be in your pocket. I remember as a kid reading 'Dick Tracy' he had a wrist watch phone, not too far off I imagine.