Re: Before Word Processors and Copy Machines Appeared

This is my first comment here. Karei san, yes, now as an old retired man, I remember those good old mimeographs mentioned before in comment 4, 5, and 6 and remember that I really had troubles with them.

Using mimeograph as a tool, we did in fact received a salary which I like to that that old machine. I remember, though, that I had to rewrite the correction, under the direction of my boss, over the original writings by stylus a number of times which tore the waxed stencil paper. The tore portion had spread out and the outcome was the printing in all black.

And because we had printed a large stack of printings to be distributed the next morning, we had to work over night on it. Such was the case with stencil paper is so was the Japanese rough writing paper. The hectic and even dreadful workload we had go through can perhaps only be understood by those who actually experienced the process. I even had nightmares.

Ah yes, and I remember that it was not so beautiful as it appears on these pictures but it was all black with ink, not only the machine itself bout our face, forehead and chin were all black and the work never finished without
getting all black .

Toshitsuru