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Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

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Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

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thetzar posted:

Sorry to interrupt Cable Box Chat, but does anyone else remember dittos? When I was in elementary school, xeroxes were still hella expensive, so we got our handouts and worksheets done via spirit duplicators ("dittos"), in purple ink that smudged onto your hands if you weren't careful.

http://atomictoasters.com/2012/03/what-ever-became-of-ditto-machines/
http://www.retroland.com/dittos/





whoa last time i caught a glimpse of one of those being used the teacher was smoking a butt in the other hand

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

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Data Graham posted:

My teachers always called it "running off". "I've got to go run off some copies of today's assignment"

holy poo poo

Mariana Horchata
Jun 30, 2008

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error1 posted:

Vibration and odd shapes are unlikely to be a problem for audio CDs that spin at the normal 1x speed, they only spin the disc at around 200 to 500 rpm.


The fun starts when you stick it in a high speed 52x computer drive that is full of warnings about not loading cracked or misshapen discs because of the risk of explosion.
The speed never increased above 52x because if you go much higher the plastic immediately disintegrates even with a perfectly round undamaged disc due to air resistance and resonance vibration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs7x1Hu29Wc&t=370s

i had my Diablo 2 CD explode like that inside my pc shortly after getting the game and i almost had a mental breakdown over it

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