Does anyone remember either of these??

Question

Just so you don't try to figure out how old I am remember I could be telling a story told to me by my parents...
- mimeograph macines (before copiers) with the purple ink.
- phone numbers with letters in the beginning SAR 4876

Answer 1

Ho, ho...I'm old cuz I do! My folks had that kind of phone number, and we kids thought if we sniffed enough freshly inked mimeo paper in class we could get high. Ah...the good old days...

Answer 2

I remeber the mimeograph machines. Sniffing the ink in class was a cheap thrill. Don't much recall the alpha-numeric phone numbers.
I do remember looking up information for essays and reports by using a microfeche machine and not the internet.

Answer 3

I had to use a gestetner machine to produce my high school newspaper back when god was still in puberty. While I may miss a few old devices, like the Selectric typewriter, I can honestly say that mimeograph machines were invented in Hell's R&D establishment, and are certainly still used there.

Answer 4

I remember both! And I used to love the smell of the papers when they came out of the mimeograph machine!

Answer 5

yes - mimeographs! that purple ink all over your hands!


no, not the phone numbers with the letters.... just before my time I think.

Answer 6

I loved the smell of mimeographed quiz papers in school.
And my phone # growing up was ATwater 2-3880.

Answer 7

Yes I remember purple fingers from handing those out in class. And phone numbers where you listened to see if it was your ring, a party line.

Answer 8

i remember the mimeograph machines, but not the phone number thing.

Answer 9

i remember the purple ink but i don't remember the letters in the phone numbers

Answer 10

yes to the machine and no to the letters of numbers