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Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book

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From: jmfbahciv
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:27
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ma...@mail.com wrote:
> On 2018-01-26, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, January 26, 2018 at 4:02:14 AM UTC-5, AndyW wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm surprised the mimeo ink would be hard to obtain--I'd figure that
>> would remain available after parts dried up.
>>
>> While I'm nostalgic for mimeo, I must admit it was a crappy process.
>> It's big advantage was that it was simple and cheap.  Anyone with
>> a typewriter could cut a stencil, and presumably second-hand
>> manual simple mimeo machines were cheap.  When low-cost Xerox
>> machines came out, everyone switched over.
>>
>> ad for mimeograph machine
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=lU0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA10&dq=life%20mimeo&pg=
PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false
>
> Mimeo machines, in my erperience, were extensively used by churches
> for weekly newsletters. The wives of Reformed Church clerics were
> usually doing it, (probably the girlfriends of Catholic priests too,
> but hey ..)

and schools.

/BAH
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