[simpits-tech] Long read - but WORTH IT!

[sean.g at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting Roy Coates <roy at flightlab.liv.ac.uk>:

> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Gene Buckle wrote:
> 
> > > > > > What about the smell of freshly mimeographed paper? *laughs*
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Oh wow! I had forgotten about that!
> > > > >
> > > > > Roy. (15 years old again).
> > > > >
> > > >Holy cow! I never knew they had paper back then... *gd&r*
> > >
> > > Hell I remember when my high school got its first photocopier (it
> was
> > > a big event... front page news in fact... yes I know.. small town)
> > > they still continued with newsprint, to keep costs down.....
> > >
> >
> > I'm trying to picture a town so small that the arrival of a
> photocopier
> > would garner front page news. I am failing utterly. :) I have this
> > picture in my head of 6 kids standing in front of a bright red tool
> shed,
> > marked "School". :)
> >
> 
> You mean S K o O L

Mate.. we didn't have a shed, that would have been pure luxury.. back in my day
etc etc etc ;-)

SeanG