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A tool you used when it was new, winds up in the Smithsonian institute. Mine was a copy machine, Xerox model 914. It was the first plain paper copier. I think it came out in 1959




Guido.
 
Are you sure it wasn't 1969.

Seems it was new to me at about that time but maybe was out before then.

I remember having to go to a Library to use one. They charged 10 cents a copy to make a copy for you.

It was amazing that it could make a copy so quick.
 
Guido,
I think I heard on the new where the Smithsonian institute has a place for toy. I noticed my kids favorite toys, fisher price little people, were inducted into the toy hall of fame, or something like that.

In 1959 I got in trouble for being a copier, copying the kids assignment that set next to me. I was in the third grade. geo
 
At my mom's house Saturday and she was reading a cloth book to one of her great grand kids. I looked at it and it had a date of 1958 on it. My oldest sibling was born in 1959 it I'm sure it was hers. This thing was still in good shape too !
 
Currently reading a 1922 Popular Science Cloth bound book on Radio. Way many misconceptions in it, but really interesting topics like Flemming Valves and DeForrest's introduction of the grid in an Diode making a Triode amplifier! Jim
 
I can remember seeing a Xerox machine when I was in grade school, it was around 1964 or 65. They let me write my name on a piece of paper and made a copy of it.
 
I remember in school when the teacher handed out fresh copy's and everyone would smell them. Had blue print IIRC.
 
The local phone company has a small museum of sorts in the foyer of their building, featuring some of the original switchboard and crank phones. They have on display the exact same cell phone I am still using.... Ben
 
Down the road from is a sign marking a buried cable and it is the shape of a dial phone. They have since remarked this cable with new signs but left the old one there. It has been years since I saw one of those
 
When we get spam phone calls from people trying to "slam" us with office supplies I always tell them we have a Xerox 914 copier and we desperately need toner cartridges for it.
 
(quoted from post at 10:49:17 11/28/16) I remember in school when the teacher handed out fresh copy's and everyone would smell them. Had blue print IIRC.
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In our school I believe they called that a "ditto" machine. It used alcohol, which is where the smell came from.
The mimeograph machine printed in black and white. The words were actually typed into a stencil, which let the ink through.
 
In mid-sixty's I saved my money all summer baling hay to buy a brand new 3-speed bike. There is now one on display at the local County museum.
 
When a ship you sailed on in the Navy was scrapped and anther ship has taken its name. In my case it was a Destroyer USS Norfolk DL-1 is now a submarine USS Norfolk SSN.
 
When i worked for Xerox there were a few of those still around in the early 80s! I worked on the Big copy machines for engineering stuff. The 600,1824,1860,2080,and 7080. Also cross trained on the fax machines and some small stuff. Was a damn good job till the day they started hiring part timmers. Things went to heck really quick.
 
Nope....xerographic copies are done with a charged selenium plate or
drum and a carbon powder with a plastic resin powder mix. Then it is
heated between two rollers and you have a copy. The ones you are
thinking of were purple , right? Real old school. Kids would sit there
and huff their test papers!
 
Yeah. I was in a Marine fighter squadron on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga when she was brand new and still in shakedown. Now she's served her useful life and is committed to being scrapped.

Another carrier I was on, the Lake Champlain has been recycled some years ago.

An LST I rode from Japan to Taiwan, I wouldn't miss.
 
I dunno that it points to age necessarily, but I got to thinking about my Navy career the other day.

5 of the bases I served at have been closed and the Command I served in the entire 22 years (Naval Security Group) has been disbanded and some of the ratings don't even exist any more.
 
When I was doing my student teaching for agriculture in Blount county Tn. a salesman came to do a demo with copying machines. All teachers were required to stay after school for the demo including Woody the building trades instructor. Never a dull moment when Woody was around. The principal introduced the salesman by saying this is Mr. ---- ----- from the A. B. Dick copier company. Old Woody jumped up and shouted I've waited years for this, I've got one right here I want copied! I couldn't tell you anything else about that day at all.
 
Hello Rich'sToys,

The 914 is-was the first PLAIN PAPER copy machine. The reason it was called the 914 was because it could
copy a 9 x 14 paper size. Dry pouder process not wet!

Guido.
 
Hello Geo-TH, In,

In 59 I was in my ninth year of school in the old country. I came on the banana boat in 1961........Now you know!.


Guido
 
Guido-Canon/Saxon had a WET process that also was plain paper. It was similar to Dr. DeSauer's (?) xerographic process but used a Cadmium Sulfide photoreceptor, appropriate charging and modulation coronas, and an Isopar G/H (kerosene-like) liquid toner with suspended carbon/inks for printing. The copy was passed over a heated plate to dry out the Isopar carrier and fix the image. Somewhat better than the xerographic process in that the liquid could keep finer particles in suspension than the dry powder process, thereby improving extremely fine resolution; somewhat worse in that the copy often had a slightly oily feel due to inadequate drying.
 
When my brother was in elementary school, he and a couple of his buddies stole the school's mimeograph machine so they could print their own underground newspaper.

The criminal geniuses didn't stop to think that the school would figure out where their machine went as soon as the newspaper came out printed on one.
 
(quoted from post at 08:08:09 11/28/16)
A tool you used when it was new, winds up in the Smithsonian institute. Mine was a copy machine, Xerox model 914. It was the first plain paper copier. I think it came out in 1959
Guido.
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I've still got a Heathkit FM receiver/amplifier that I bought and put together in about 1966. If I could sell it I'd go buy a cup of coffee at McDonald's! :lol:
 
Dunno how old Moresmoke is, but I was in grade school in the late 70's and they were still using mimeograph machines here in rural NY.
 
Yep, I worked at Hewlett-Packard in the '60s and all of the hi-volume copy-work was done on a Mimeograph. The drawings for research, production, etc. were drawn by draftsmen and copied as 'blueprints' on Ozalid machines. I was a draftsman in the 'high-frequency R&D lab', pretty much all gone now. 8)
 
(quoted from post at 14:21:32 11/28/16) When a ship you sailed on in the Navy was scrapped and anther ship has taken its name. In my case it was a Destroyer USS Norfolk DL-1 is now a submarine USS Norfolk SSN.[/quot

I have been on the USS Norfolk SSN when it was in Norfolk Va. It is a nuclear sub.
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Thanks for the good laugh! My career as a HS physics teacher began in 1967, and it was "common knowledge" that physics teachers were pretty dry and way too serious. I did my best to dispel that belief, but never had such a fine opportunity as Woody. A big part of humor is in the timing, and I believe Woody was a master.

Paul in MN
 
Five years ago a 21 yr old boy who was a mechanic in our shop saw my tach-dwell meter in my bottom tool box drawer and asked what it was and what it was used for. He had never been taught about them.
 
.......when you can't remember if that Ford was a '50's or '60's or 70's or 80's.......let's see, when did dual headlights come out......
 
(quoted from post at 17:42:58 11/28/16) Hello Rich'sToys,

The 914 is-was the first PLAIN PAPER copy machine. The reason it was called the 914 was because it could
copy a 9 x 14 paper size. Dry pouder process not wet!

Guido.
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My reply was in reference to the post about test papers with blue printing on them. He mentioned that the kids used to sniff them. That was because that particular machine did use alcohol.
I realize that Xerox machines used a dry process. Sorry for the confusion.
 
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