Nah, that was a stencil system. Wax coated blanks, typed good and hard with a typewriter which cut through the wax allowing ink to pass through onto the paper. Wrapped round a drum with ink inside and whirl the handle round and round.
The ones I'm thinking of were spirit duplicators.
Eye Level (Van der Valk)
Number 1 in the charts In last week of September, 1973.
(you can keep your Madeleines :-))
Thanks, Marcel.
I really hope you had to go and look that up.
I stumbled on a site, which of all the most useless irrelevant things, will tell you what was No 1 on your original 0th birthday.
All I can say, if my mother was listening to it as she gave birth, it probably explains everything.
I didn't.
A link occasionally used by wedding reception disc jockeys.
For a twist, check what was number one 9 months before....
What *really* got your parents going.
I'm afraid I didn't. I was driving off to Essex Uni to start my Master's, stopped for lunch in Sydenham, and just remember that it was the end of the 'top 10' show at 1 p.m. when I finished lunch.
Memory is a strange thing.
Ah, yes, it all comes back to me...
I thought it was the games mistress' bicycle saddle..
Or gestetner.
Banda?
Don't
I was putting a new rear subframe on the old mini I'd bought, which was going to give me the freedom of a new life at uni ...
That's them. Always called Bandagraphs when I was a kid, but that may just have been one person in the school.
It would save some mental arithmetic if it also showed what was No 1 nine months earlier.
I'm not saying what I might have popped out to :-)
Owain
SWMBOs school, infants, has a teacher and two TAs in every class due to the kids who need 1:1 attention.
MBQ
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