You can see some interesting "old" stuff in classic films

You can see some interesting "old" stuff in classic films Jul 31, 2018 23:12:17 GMT

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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 31, 2018 23:12:17 GMT

Jul 31, 2018 22:48:04 GMT divtal said:

Jul 31, 2018 21:44:15 GMT Doghouse6 said:

Doghouse, when I saw the wringer, I wondered what was "old" about that. Then, I realized that it wasn't a pasta press.

I watched All The President's Men, a couple of nights ago. Stories were written on manual typewriters, with carbon-paper inserts for copies. In one scene, Bob Woodward (Robert Redford), need to find a phone number in Minneapolis ... he went to the Washington Post's library of Yellow-Pages.

It's like the old saying: old wringers never die, they just become pasta presses. Didn't Douglas MacArthur say something like that?

First office I worked in (a year before the Watergate break-in) we were still using carbon paper. We had a Xerox machine, and it was about the size of a side-by-side refrigerator laying on its side, no multiple page copying, and each one took about ten seconds.