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TexasBushwhacker

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25. I was a teacher in the 80s - so yes n/t

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Sat Dec 31, 2022, 10:29 PM

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Who remembers ditto machines? [View all] Wicked Blue Dec 2022 OP

I immediately flashed on the smell of that ink. Ocelot II Dec 2022 #1

You certainly could Wicked Blue Dec 2022 #3

Yes indeed, because it's isopropyl alcohol and methanol William Seger Jan 2023 #32

LOL Lithos Dec 2022 #2

I sure do. sinkingfeeling Dec 2022 #4

And damp paper with friendly pictures. BittyJenkins Dec 2022 #5

Is that the same thing as a mimeograph machine? Haggard Celine Dec 2022 #6

I think mimeographs were a slightly older technology Wicked Blue Dec 2022 #7

We used to smell the mimeograph ink. Haggard Celine Dec 2022 #10

Pretty sure they're spirit duplicators. sl8 Dec 2022 #9

That's the official name for them Wicked Blue Dec 2022 #12

Okay, it sounded like something similar. Haggard Celine Dec 2022 #13

I remember the purple ink. Everything was handwritten it seemed. applegrove Dec 2022 #8

Ditto (mimeograph) in the movie Teachers... Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2022 #11

OMG, That's Royal Dano. I never saw him in anything other than TV shows -- rsdsharp Dec 2022 #14

The character's nickname in the movie was, "Ditto". He hogged the machine. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2022 #15

The first thing I saw him in was a rerun of the very first episode rsdsharp Dec 2022 #20

I think wikipedia doesn't cover everything he did... Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2022 #23

I do, I was a teacher for 45 years. When a student, we would smell the purple ink that would come debm55 Dec 2022 #16

There was a mad, crazy day in my junior year Wicked Blue Dec 2022 #19

I used two types-the oldest was a pan with a jell bad on it. The other used a ditto sheet that you debm55 Dec 2022 #22

You're lucky as the fluid was flammable. They had the run off room in a windless tiny room when I debm55 Dec 2022 #26

Indeed I do. Mom was a typing teacher. WheelWalker Dec 2022 #17

That ink smelled better than the cafeteria food! PXR-5 Dec 2022 #18

ANYTHING smelled better than the cafeteria food. rsdsharp Dec 2022 #21

It was the fluid from a can that made the purple carbon paper smell. It was a gross smell. debm55 Dec 2022 #24

I never liked it, but most kids would inhale down to their shoe laces. rsdsharp Dec 2022 #27

Well, then they were huffing because the smell was from the flammable acid we added to the ditto debm55 Dec 2022 #29

It was an alcohol blend Wicked Blue Jan 2023 #35

Thanks Wicked. It sure smelled nasty. One thing though, It did wrinkle the paper, if too much fluid debm55 Jan 2023 #36

I was a teacher in the 80s - so yes n/t TexasBushwhacker Dec 2022 #25

Texas, I started teaching in 1978, Finally, school got a Xerox. debm55 Dec 2022 #28

Our school Xerox machine was protected by school administrators in its own little room. hunter Jan 2023 #33

Hunter, same here. However, a teacher was given the key. He was the only male teacher in the school. debm55 Jan 2023 #34

They would throw the empty fluid cans into the trash...... MyOwnPeace Dec 2022 #30

We used these machines for the college debate squad LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2023 #31

Looked it up...yeah definitely in grade school - early mid '60's .. electric_blue68 Jan 2023 #37

Picking the printed paper up & smelling it was the first thing Raine Jan 2023 #38