That would be the alcohol or CFC based ink of a spirit duplicator, the mimeograph was an older system using emulsion ink.
Was that the 'Banda' system that was used at my schools?
Mimeograph was one brand name of stencil-based duplicator. What a lot of people called a mimeograph was actually a spirit duplicator, which were much more common and used alcohol-based inks which lead to the distinctive smell.
Dad's car (1958 Morris Oxford III) with no belts nor headrests (and column change and front bench seat). Also was car both my elder brother and me both learnt to drive in.
Can also remember that from my primary school days, big radio set in the staff room piped through to each classroom via a volume knob in the classroom.
Yes, that and Fordigraph were the major brands of them
We had one on wheels, the ariel socket was in the hall and a cable was run to whichever classroom needed it, always a snowy picture though
Gestetner comes to mind for me.
Ah yes, death by OH (Overhead Projector) slides, The forerunner to death by Power Point.
(some will remember...)I remember control logs typed on Roneo stencils, with the log’s distribution typed on at the very end every day with the inevitable humour of burying a daft recipient in the list such as Zammit The Chemist on the Liv St log.
You're probably talking about epidiascopes, which would project a image of whatever was underneath them onto the screen....whereas for most overhead projectors, you shone a light through the object (which is why the usual way was a transparent slide with pictures/words on). I last used one with my university students about eight or nine years ago (they'd never seen one before).
For that matter: snow.
Snows just as much (or as little) now as it did when i was growing up in the 90s IMO.
But not as much as it did when I grew up in the 1950’s
Obviously I'm not in a good position to compare, seeing as my childhood in north Yorkshire and my adult life in east Scotland were separated by 20+ years out of the country, but I seem to remember heavier snow being more common in the 1980s than it is in the 2020s.
In the 1970s we had tape typewriters (from Ultronic Data Systems) to increase typing productivity. A typist could type a first draft and use the punched tape to produce new versions without retyping the unchanged bits. Ours had two tape readers which allowed some crude programming for formatting output.
Going back to when I was a child back in the 1950’s, virtually every child had a sledge. These were not the modern moulded plastic ‘tea-trays’ but wooden built in the shed with metal runners. It was a common sight over the winter to see children rushing out of school to get in a bit of sledging before it went dark (and after it went dark). A thing of the past.
We had one of those, thanks for the reminder as I'd completely forgotten! I'm pretty sure we 'inherited' it from the previous occupants of the house and left it for the next.
Still have a proper wooden sledge in the shed, next to the 1971 SpaceHopper (by the way if anyone knows where to get an adaptor to blow them up...)
Many of us had a cart or trolley to ride on for dry days. Usually a plank on pram axles, sometimes steerable if you had a clever dad, using a bit of rope or your feet.
One of my schoolfriends had one of those in the 80s, the front axle steered as you describe using either your feet or a loop of rope, I don't recall it having any brakes though. He had a couple of brothers who were both over 10 years older than him, I'm guessing it was a hand me down from them.
You never see go-karts around these days either.
....or kids' pedal cars....or tricycles.
I think we may still have my wife's sledge lurking long unused in the dark depths of the basement. This picture in 1965 when we had some real snow. My sledge was all wood and got wrecked after hitting a well hidden rock.
