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I remember the DOS. Very confusing.

Yes, over 40 years in the workspace I have seen progression through all types of machinery. It's a wonder how each was an improvement on the last, so what's next I wonder?

Don't remember the pink stuff before Tippex, but do remember those silly Tippex sheets! And the ink erasers at the end of a pencil. Rub too hard and you scratched a hole nearly in the paper. And all those sheets of carbon for extra copies?

No. Gotta be the pc and printer for me. I'm with Julie1962 on this.

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I remember Dos well, I don't think I would bother again with it, would you if it was the only means of computing?

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This thread has really got me meandering down Memory Lane! I started thinking about the old copying machines and Googled Gestetner (still going!) and I think that was stencil correction fluid I remember smelling good, I think it was spirit based and smelt of ether!

Who else remembers cutting stencils on a heavy typewriter and then fixing the fiddly things into the copying machine and TURNING THE HANDLE! The print quality was appalling!

Give me a computer and a printer any day.

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Yes Angie darlin' I remember those. Do you remember (pre-computer) the Amstrad Word processor - I had one of those too.

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I was a shorthand typist in the 60s and my worst nightmare was the weekly balance sheet typed onto the stencil, the various accountants were forever nipping in and out of the office with changed figures, the sheet was covered in bright pink correcting fluid! It's a wonder the whole thing didn't fall apart when delicately peeling it off the backing and then wrapping it around the Gestetner. Black hands from that ink too!