Retroland | Ditto Paper: Memories

Hailey remembers... When I was in first grade in 1992 they were still using these, I wondered why everything was so blurry! Thank god for Photocopiers More »	endurance remembers... Something I haven't thought about in years,it was always a special treat to go to the office for the teacher and get the copies from the ditto machine.That walk back to class was always real slow and somewhat staggered after ... More »
jomesa remembers... I def remember the purple ink. More »	Braniff remembers... In his novel The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk described the orders which were given to the ship's captains on ditto paper, white paper, typed out and mimeographed using the same process. I read the novel in high school when many ... More »
Beatles4ever remembers... I used to always look forward to the tests printed with that blue ink....I still remember its smell. More »	AidanK remembers... Ah! The ditto machine. Like others have mentioned, I can remember the smell of freshly printed pages and that the paper still had a somewhat damp, cool feel to it when fresh. Of course, all of us kids wanted to ... More »