Posts by John Farrell
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The company I worked for in 1999 had a visit from the ministry of commerce - they'd had a complaint from a customer who had bought a system we had first sold in the 80's. We weren't prepared to declare the system y2k compliant. I had a lady go through all of our fault dockets, for hardware repairs. I didn't tell her there was nothing there to do with software compliance.......
In the end, the older systems all worked fine at the dawn of 2000, without modification.
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Just make sure you include lots of howlers and anachronisms.....
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The machine I briefly owned part of looked like this:
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~typo/collect/officequ/duplicat.htm
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Gestetner Duplicator:
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The Banda Duplicator:
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Puts on pedant's hat Gestetner ink is black, thick gooey stuff. The purple spirit based ink is Banda duplicator ink.
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With a cry, Vittorio thrusts the repair kit into the pasta Maria is making.
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Bicycles - the only transport fuelled by cold pies, beer and chocolate.
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Hmm..."Cycling on the right (left) path". "The Zen of Bicycle Maintenance - 1001 uses for beer cans"...
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Mind you, cycling was a radical activity for 70s environmentalists.