Spirit Duplicator on Wikipedia. I had always thought that the "Ditto Machine"* was the same as a
mimeograph, but, in fact they are distinct processes. The Ditto machine smells better, for one thing.
(Younger readers can go back to text messaging and playing Wii, or whatever the hell it is you do, and excuse the interruption)
*actually, I had totally forgotten the name "Ditto Machine" until I started looking this stuff up, but the smell is burned into my brain. The whole thing started with me wishing that fortune cookie fortunes were still made on mimeographs,rather than offset printed.
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posted 4:09 PM
Antique Copying Machines at
Early Office Museum.
My mom worked in an office that had one of
these, and my sister and I burned through a fair bit of the special paper for it when she wasn't looking.
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posted 3:31 PM
Stock ticker history, with a slightly annoying interface, but nice pictures. This company apparently sells very cool
reproduction stock tickers.
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posted 1:01 PM
