No! Everything was done on those purple machines at my school, too. They weren't photocopiers, though, they were some kind of mad mechanical thing: you'd see teachers patiently turning the handles and churning out prints, and each one got fainter, so you could only do a certain number of copies at a time. I think my primary school got a photocopier just about 1987-88 or something, but they still used the purple one because it was cheaper. But at secondary school, they only had photocopiers.
Huh- apparently mimeographs are still used a lot in the developing world because it's a "more robust technology". Given that our office photocopier has to be serviced about once a week, this doesn't surprise me massively.
Ooh, we had a separate collator in the library at my secondary school too, because it was before photocopiers collated. It was HUUGE.
Given that our office photocopier has to be serviced about once a week, this doesn't surprise me massively. Same here. I wonder where one can purchase a mimeograph...
When I was in first school (early 80s), I remember that certain worksheets were printed into our exercise books by the teacher from a master copy that was purple. It wasn't a photocopy, though. She used to hold it onto the page, and then firmly scrape all down the thing with a large plastic trapezium from the Maths set. It's funny the things that stick in your mind...
*Points up* Have discovered it was a mimeograph! Which makes me feel like an old person. "Eeeeh, back in my day we had mimeographs! And outdoor toilets!"
I was also fond of LouLou, and I remember you had a Chanel perfume (no 5?) and I always think of 80s Hoor when I smell that. Late 90s was Lush for me...
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Ooh, here it is - it's a mimeograph!
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Ooh, we had a separate collator in the library at my secondary school too, because it was before photocopiers collated. It was HUUGE.
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Same here. I wonder where one can purchase a mimeograph...
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Have discovered it was a mimeograph! Which makes me feel like an old person. "Eeeeh, back in my day we had mimeographs! And outdoor toilets!"
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I think that we had the discount version! We didn't have outdoor toilets, though. Indoor ones, with rolls of greaseproof paper...
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Indoor toilets! You're from the south, are you?
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ETA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator
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