And the smell was heavenly! Remember getting to turn the handle in school? Then you got to carry a still warm pile of papers back to the classroom-sniffing all the way!
Yeah... huffing all the way... I even got to pour that ink fluid into the thing from time to time.
And the smell was heavenly! Remember getting to turn the handle in school? Then you got to carry a still warm pile of papers back to the classroom-sniffing all the way!
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Preparing the stencil was decidedly not heavenly. Had to use a stylus on a sheet backed by a bed of wax. Very time consuming, especially for me, as my handwriting has never been very nice unless I go very, very slowly.
In the later years of my career, my young colleagues never understood why I brought burnt offerings and praise to the spirits inside my ‘puter.