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My mother had a part-time job as a church secretary during the late 60s and early 70s, and was tasked with creating the weekly programs handed out at the services on Sundays. The bulletins were printed on 8.5x11 paper that was ordered from religious supply companies, and had a nice 5 x 8 color image printed on one side so that when they were folded in half the program would have an attractive cover image. To populate the inside of the program Mom would type a mimeograph stencil, which looked like this (only shorter, for letter sized pages)....and then she would run the program paper through the mimeograph machine, which looked like this:She would have to type it in a landscape orientation, of course, so that the text inside the folded program would be readable, so she had a typewriter with an extra wide carriage. Mimeograph stencils were just that, stencils, a translucent waxy top page over an opaque backing that provided stability for typing or freehand drawing with a stylus. The typewriter key or stylus onto the stencil would carve away enough of the waxy coating that ink could penetrate those areas when the stencil was stretched over the drum of the mimeograph machine. When you made a mistake typing on a stencil, you painted over the error with a clear liquid that filled in the gaps of the waxy coating, and after it dried you could make your correction. Mimeographs typically printed with black ink and should not be confused with ditto machines, which printed in purple. Ditto machines, which looked like this...were a little simpler and cheaper to operate, and were used by teachers to create classroom materials all through my public school education, from 1962-1973. Ditto masters were thick white glossy top sheets attached to thick purple backing sheets. When you wrote or typed on a ditto master the purple ink on the inside of the backing sheet would adhere to the back of the white top sheet. If you made a mistake you could use thin paper tape to cover it on the back of the white top sheet and type or write over it again, or you could use a single edge razor blade to shave the mistake off the back of the white top sheet, then type or write over it.I myself got my first full-time corporate office job about ten years later, in 1979, at Major League Baseball, and worked there for ten years, during which time I used a lot of other technology that is now mostly unheard of.I remember using the fax precursor that was called a Qwip machine.There was an 11" long rotating drum that opened up slightly so a standard US sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper could be clamped into it lengthwise. It was attached to an acoustic coupler designed to hold an old Western Electric style telephone handset, which was also attached to the device.If you wanted to send a facsimile copy of a document to someone else you would pick up the handset attached to your Qwip machine and call the phone number associated with the Qwip handset on the other end. If they didn't answer, you were out of luck. If they did answer you would tell them you had a document to send and how many pages it was. You would ask them if they preferred six minutes per page (standard resolution, which was still pretty grainy) or three minutes per page (grainier yet). You would then clamp your original onto the drum of your unit while on the other end the recipient would clamp into his or her drum a sheet of special thick glossy thermal paper. Once the papers were clamped in you would confirm by voice that the other side was ready and then each of you would put your handsets into the acoustic couplers. The sender's machine would begin to whine, the recipient's would whine in return (like the old dialup modem handshakes), and the transmission would begin. On the sender's end a stylus/needle would scan the original document from top to bottom as it rotated on the drum, looking for text or other dark pixels to transmit. On the recipient's end the stylus/needle would literally burn the image received into the thermal paper, which would emit a distinctive odor.After the page finished both humans would pick up their handsets out of their acoustic couplers and discuss the quality of the transmission. "Did it come through OK?" If not, they might re-send it. If it did, then they would repeat the process for Page 2, if there was a Page 2. And Page 3, and onward, always doing the voice check between pages.When Federal Express first started up, in addition to their air courier services, they had a near-monopoly on the first generation of plain paper fax machines. It was possible to take a thick document to a Federal Express office and have it transmitted within minutes to another Federal Express office hundreds or thousands of miles away, where the intended recipient could come and pick it up (or have Federal Express deliver it to them). As the prices of plain paper fax machines came down and more offices had them, this part of Federal Express' business evaporated, and today very few people remember it. (I remember sending at least one document this way.)When I went to work for the American League in 1980 I was given an office that included a Western Union TWX machine (close cousin of the better known Telex machines).You could dial up another TWX machine directly or you could use a paper tape with one or more stored addresses on it to contact other TWX users (in my case, the other MLB offices and clubs). You could type your message live or record your message on paper tape (which was quicker and allowed correction of errors). I learned to cut and read paper tapes. I could look at a paper tape and tell you if it was an address tape or a message tape, and if it was an American League address tape or an all-clubs message tape (this was more trivial than it sounds: not only was the all-clubs tape twice as long, it began with ATL BRAVES instead of ORIOLES BAL and so just by looking at a few lines of the tape I could easily tell the difference).The one in my office had a clear plastic foam-dampened hood over it, similar to the one in this image, which was intended to reduce the noisiness when the device was operating.It was basically useless and I always referred to it as the "Cone of Silence" for that reason.My job with the American League included daily waiver transactions and publication of a daily bulletin. During spring training I used the TWX machine (because the clubs carried their TWX machines with them to Florida and Arizona), but during the rest of the year I did this using an IBM Mag Card 1 terminal, basically a hopped-up Selectric, and pre-stored my content on reusable 50-line magnetic cards that fed into a reader attached to the typewriter.By 1986 when I was out of law school and working in the MLB Commissioner's Office, we had a sponsorship deal with IBM and there was some kind of mainframe in an air-conditioned room. The secretaries all had terminals on their desks, where they used word processing software to prepare our correspondence, contracts, etc. I startled my secretary Eileen by asking her to teach me how to do basic word processing / editing tasks on her terminal, but I found it very useful. She left at 5:30 and I was routinely there for at least another hour or two (and the Federal Express office a block away was open till 8). I could often get documents done, printed, and out the door instead of waiting for her to come in and follow my handwritten edits in the morning.I did use a Dictaphone during this period of my life, mostly for correspondence and to go through a to-do list of things I wanted Eileen to help me accomplish the next day. She came in at 8:30 and I came in at 9:30, so she could get a good head start on me this way. Usually I would do this in the evenings. I would speak into a little handheld unit that contained a microcassette, and leave the cassette in my outbox. Eileen would then play it back on a unit that looked like this (note the foot pedal, so Eileen could play/pause with her foot, keeping both hands on the keyboard typing):In 1989 I went to work for an agency called ProServ that represented athletes. At ProServ I had access to a Dictaphone but again found that the professional staff had no access to computers or other technology. The secretaries and assistants did have terminals where they did word processing and had a primitive form of email or IM that communicated only among terminal owners. I found this out because several of them got in trouble for sending some very mocking messages about the corporate leadership, not knowing that anyone else could see them.Within a year or three I had a Macintosh at home and began agitating at the office for a computer that would allow me to do more work hands-on, editing my own documents instead of marking them up with ink and waiting for an assistant to do it. No lawyer or professional at ProServ had ever had a computer on his or her desk, but after a little while they relented, and my modern era of office work began.

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