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Jun. 17th, 2006 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithAfter the post the over day, I had an idle thought about where the pre-PC writing might have got to.
In the tall, narrow, white cupboard, it would seem. This is the tall white cupboard into which I have beenshoving putting things for years, and not taking them out. It went like that into the removalist truck last time I moved.
There is some interesting stuff in there. A photo album full of first day covers & stamp packs.
Some photo-copies from the Examiner. Once upon a time, the library used to provide access to the old newspapers in bound form -- a half year or quarter bound with a hardcover. If you wantd to look at one, you had to write the date on a slip of paper a few hours before you wanted it, then they'd bring a pile of them down from the next floor up on a trolley. If you wanted a copy of something, they'd put in an order for a photo of that article. A standard size photo, which gave you a mostly readable copy of a short news article, cost something like $2, twenty years ago, and tooks days to arrive.
Now they're all microfilmed and sitting on the shelves. If you want ot get a copy you just have towait until the idiot who doesn't understand what "printing only" means and is using the only one of the three printers that works has finished take the film over to a printing machine and hit a button. Seconds later you have a mostly readable, full page print out that costs you about 70c (and then there is the whole CD index thing but anyway).
Lots of magazines, cards, newspaper cuttings, old photos (family portrait when my father was a baby -- how did that get in), dog's certificates. Quite a fascinating pile. And there I thought it was mostly magaznes.
In the tall, narrow, white cupboard, it would seem. This is the tall white cupboard into which I have been
There is some interesting stuff in there. A photo album full of first day covers & stamp packs.
Some photo-copies from the Examiner. Once upon a time, the library used to provide access to the old newspapers in bound form -- a half year or quarter bound with a hardcover. If you wantd to look at one, you had to write the date on a slip of paper a few hours before you wanted it, then they'd bring a pile of them down from the next floor up on a trolley. If you wanted a copy of something, they'd put in an order for a photo of that article. A standard size photo, which gave you a mostly readable copy of a short news article, cost something like $2, twenty years ago, and tooks days to arrive.
Now they're all microfilmed and sitting on the shelves. If you want ot get a copy you just have to
Lots of magazines, cards, newspaper cuttings, old photos (family portrait when my father was a baby -- how did that get in), dog's certificates. Quite a fascinating pile. And there I thought it was mostly magaznes.
