I was just thinking about how laborious the office tasks used to be in the 60s and 70s. Who remembers Gestetner machines and having to clean off your typewriter keys before you could type on a stencil?Not to mention the red fluid you had to paint on to cover a mistake. Then there were Banda machines, telex machines, the weekly cleaning of typewriter rollers with meths to keep them clean. Office work must be so much easier once you've mastered the computer. No faxing through documents or last minute trips to post an important letter. The franking machine too. I wonder if some of that still goes on. I used the Kalamazoo system every week to do the wages then wrote cheques or paid by cash into little buff envelopes and staff would line up for their wages. Sometimes luncheon vouchers too - 15p a day in 1972.
I don't know what made me think of that today but I had a little trip down memory lane.
