Sociology and Message formatting

From: Computer Room Internet Cafe <netcafe_at_pirie.mtx.net.au>
Date: Fri Jan 8 18:42:55 1999

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, 9 January 1999 5:44
Subject: Re: Sociology and Message formatting


>On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Hans Franke wrote:
>
>> Shure, today they are no longer produced with typewriters and
>> Spiritusumdrucker (sorry missing word - a copyingdevice using
>> special sheets and spirit for duplication), but rather on PCs
>> or high class DTP stations, but thats just the tool.
>
>Spiritusumdrucker! What a fantastic word! I think that would be a
>mimeograph?

Quite probably. Spiritusumdrucker means "printer using spirits"? I think.

Well, we just called it a Spirit Duplicator. We used to use them
when I was still in Air Traffic Services to run off Pre Flight Information
Bulletins
for Pilots, (a list of NOTAMS, WX etc for their flight). Prior to that, we
used to prepare them by means of a local teleprinter, with a perf tape that
had the current stuff on it. Took a while though. (75 baud)
By the time I left, we had caught up and were using a conventional
photocopier.

Cheers
Geoff Roberts.
Computer Room Internet Cafe
Port Pirie
South Australia.
netcafe_at_pirie.mtx.net.au
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