Mimeograph

the overhead projector, the die punch machine, the die cut, the die cut, the Ellison press, the risograph, the, you know, it was...

Mimeograph, dittos, we called them.

And so when I was getting my master's, educational technology was really kind of coming on board.

And so I decided to see if I could... accommodate needs in my classrooms through technology so that no other kid would know the special need that that student had.

Um, so, um, but then if you really want to know where they are intellectually, you have to read the samizdat.

The samizdat were the forbidden publication that circulated usually on, uh, Roneo.

You know, they were, they were run on, you know, somebody would type something on their little machine, and then they would make z- you know, carbon copies.

Yeah.

You have a young guy from Sichuan working at the Renault car factory.

His comrades nicknamed him Mr. Mimeograph because he spent his nights secretly printing underground revolutionary pamphlets called New Youth and Red Dawn.

And that young man was Deng Xiaoping.

Operating a secret printing press under the nose of the French Sûreté, he would later become the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China, but in the 1920s, he was mastering the logistics of clandestine propaganda.

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And do you remember those old Roneo machines where you used to run off, um, p- uh, house particulars? I used to run the machine and all that.

I used to run errands.

I used to take the, um, the stamp machine, what do you call it? The, um ...