Post AVQaYmoD7xEYXVLwxc by TonyJWells@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AVQ0hjgUW6Tl6ai6y0 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-07T17:27:57Z
       
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       I still remember this massive Xerox machine at UCLA long ago. When I'd make a copy it made such impressive sounds as the power sequenced up that I remember thinking to myself, "Hell, is this a copy machine or a warp drive?"
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQ1iopwwetPKUDOC0 by eyebrowsgerri@masto.ai
       2023-05-07T17:39:19Z
       
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       @lauren I remember those copiers. They sounded like a Harrier jet taking off. I also remember a printer that was so loud they sold a foam padded hood accessory for it so you could still hear the phone ring.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQ39ZhNR8p09TWkL2 by mtomczak@qoto.org
       2023-05-07T17:55:21Z
       
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       @lauren First printer in the household was an Okidata dot-matrix.We had a strict family rule: "No printing before 7AM. If it's important, do it night before."
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQ4kWSGYl2mlCdo2K by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-07T18:13:17Z
       
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       @mtomczak I always liked to watch print heads printing backwards across lines though. Of course I also liked to stare at big old DEC RP04 disk drives spinning at high speed through the transparent top glass doors. And the gyrations of DECtapes. And ASR33s ... and ... I digress.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQTjpeGD91iqu1EHo by JenniferSlack@mastodon.social
       2023-05-07T22:53:14Z
       
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       @lauren On one of my first jobs out of college, I ran a giant Xerox machine to make a workbook for a dental school. The sounds of the machine were loud and the funky rhythms were conducive to dancing. So I danced a lot.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQa1wLQeWSIYeEDQm by TonyJWells@mastodon.social
       2023-05-08T00:03:51Z
       
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       @lauren I perhaps unfairly always judged any manager who would be close to tears or violence because the big Xerox ran out of paper and they were clueless about reloading a ream of A4. Also the manager who would regularly make everyone else also have a bad day because of a 'Load Letter' message.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQa5iuyVxva4eeuK8 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-08T00:04:29Z
       
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       @TonyJWells Those things did go down a lot though.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQaQICn1ilDJ7ndbc by TonyJWells@mastodon.social
       2023-05-08T00:08:10Z
       
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       @lauren @mtomczak Loved the giant plotter throwing out a roll of diagrams. Also developed actual arm muscles wrangling disc packs for the washing machine size drives
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQaYmoD7xEYXVLwxc by TonyJWells@mastodon.social
       2023-05-08T00:09:43Z
       
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       @lauren It was just the helplessness on show from common office equipment. I felt the same on the odd occasions I ended up covered in toner.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQaairukRUwtk0bOS by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
       2023-05-08T00:10:11Z
       
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       @TonyJWells @mtomczak I always had a lingering fear that one day when I took the bottom cover off one of those "cake cover" packs in preparation for loading it into the drive, the platters would come loose and smash on the floor.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVQbURrh9bDuNZTiE4 by TonyJWells@mastodon.social
       2023-05-08T00:20:02Z
       
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       @lauren @mtomczak Never dropped one but they always felt like they would fall from the cover. Saw one on Ebay recently, jsut the pack, not the drive,  and was tempted, but it wasn't cheap.