Re: Even more OT: Ditto machines [was: bottom / top posting]

From: Tom Browder <tom(dot)browder(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql(at)mailpen(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Even more OT: Ditto machines [was: bottom / top posting]
Date: 2021-06-10 21:19:33
Message-ID: CAFMGiz9EgacwPDN6W1ErxZLAWfry1=Lw1ECsj3D6mN+-rAM7Dg@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 15:52 Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) <
postgresql(at)mailpen(dot)com> wrote:

> On 2021-06-10 13:21, Peter J. Holzer wrote:
>
> On 2021-06-09 14:41:47 -0700, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote:
>
> ... when paper memos were the norm ...
>
> ... before photocopiers were invented...
>
> Tom mentioned "old-timers." Remember "Ditto" machines? Remember the
> odor? They were in common use when I was in high school (1960).
>

Indeed I "ditto" remember them! And the smell was the prize for running an
errand for the teacher to pick up copies from the Mimeograph room.

-Tom

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