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We took our collection of songs old and new, some in books and magazines, and some hand written, to a dozen or so union offices in Sydney to get them retyped onto roneo or gestetner stencils.
Union is Strength CD 1981
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Thanks to a power outage, they had to resort to searching through paper files (with attendant paper cuts), using Polaroid cameras to record the crime scene (when’s the last time you saw an SX-70?) and a gestetner to reproduce the eye witness sketch.
slumry commented on the word gestetner
Remember Gestetner machines? (Only if you are of a certain age, of course)
June 28, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word gestetner
I sure know my Ricoh! Is it the same concept?
June 28, 2007
slumry commented on the word gestetner
Same concept, but far more primitive. The Gestetner was a large machine with a drum. You typed on a waxy stencil, making holes in it. Heaven forbid you should make a mistake. The ink and stencil were placed on the drum, the drum rotated and voila, school paper! Messy, messy. Or so I recall.
June 28, 2007