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

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: "Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)" <postgresql@mailpen.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2021-06-11T17:44:45Z
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On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 01:52:24PM -0700, Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) wrote:
> Tom mentioned "old-timers."  Remember "Ditto" machines?  Remember the odor? 
> They were in common use when I was in high school (1960).
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimeograph

Yeah, everyone at school would smell the stack of papers as they passed
them back.  When I realized it was methanol and isopropanol that made me
like the smell, I realied how much chemicals could affect my behavior.

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