On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 14:48 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:47 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > Always Learning wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 10:39 -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > >> > >>> mark "we won't talk about the month I punch Addressograph > >>> plates...." > >> > >> Addressograph plates? That is really ancient ! but they were > >> incredible useful in those days. > >> > > Yeah... but did you ever do it, or see it done? Forget the old manual > > Underwood, this required actual *force* hitting the keys (yes, the machine > > was electric). No speed, either - the actuator arms had to hit the metal. > > WHAM-WHAM-WHAM-WHAM > > > Any picts or videos? I am just picturing a room with those > thingies and a couple of Jacob's latters and a Van der Graff while on > the background a table with a covered body is being slowly raised to > the roof. > > "No, not the third switch!" Sorry mate. The programmers were all busy sitting around the table in the engineers' room playing Bridge (a card game) :-) -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. Centos, Exim, Apache, Libre Office. Linux is the future. Micro$oft is the past.