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Fo'andles
Elite Baiter
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
Posts: 1654
Location: busy doing nothing, somewhere
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Wed May 15, 2013 3:17 pm |
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firehouse5
Palm Wino Aficionado
Joined: 09 Mar 2004
Posts: 4953
Location: swimming in Ogogoro
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Wed May 15, 2013 4:35 pm |
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There is one task I do in my day job that still requires carbon paper, a very specific report that must be done this way for god knows what reason.
Possibly the reason is that there is a big shelf full of carbon paper and the reporting format cannot be changed until it is gone. |
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Fo'andles
Elite Baiter
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
Posts: 1654
Location: busy doing nothing, somewhere
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Wed May 15, 2013 9:12 pm |
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I still have some around, never know, power cuts, important letter to write, need to have a copy.
Call it forward planning if you like, but I'm ready. |
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Juan Freizwidatt
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Joined: 18 Apr 2004
Posts: 20834
Location: Hanging out at In-n-Out
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Thu May 16, 2013 1:13 am |
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I still use it daily because some postal forms that I fill out in my work must be handwritten with a carbon duplicate. It seems odd, given that I print the mailing label, postage included, on the computer. That keeps a detailed digital log of everything, and the bar codes on the label itself contain a ton of hidden digital information. But -- for anything sent via Registered Mail it is still obligatory to fill out the old log book by hand, just as I did in the 1970s. And a hard copy of that form must be filed away by the post office for permanent archiving.
I suspect that most young people today don't even know what carbon paper is. And yet the old acronym "CC" has carried forward to email.
Raise your hand: how many members who routinely use the CC or BCC functions in their emails knew what the letters stood for? |
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TheFae
Baiting Guru
Joined: 15 Jun 2009
Posts: 14295
Location: Playing Space in the Street - DECENT!
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Sun May 19, 2013 3:39 pm |
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::raising hand:: Those were the days when the copy was on 'onion skin' paper, typed with an IBM Selectric. I'd hammer my way through a 14-page contract and inevitably my boss at the time would make changes on, say, page 6. His changes added stuff so I couldn't just retype page 6, but had to retype what was now pages 6 to 15.
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agnomen
Baiting Guru
Joined: 16 Apr 2012
Posts: 2270
Location: Staring at my slice of ocean
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Sun May 19, 2013 4:30 pm |
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I’m old enough to . But the number of people who should know and say I sent you an email and you never replied to which I say no you cc’d me still amazes me. |
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lord goldblade
Elite Baiter
Joined: 13 Jan 2011
Posts: 1553
Location: Slaying The Prophets Ov Isa
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Sun May 19, 2013 5:26 pm |
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We still have carbon paper at work for the controlled drug order books, some people dont quite get it though and end up putting the carbon sheet in upside down.... |
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lakeside77
A chaff in the USA
Joined: 11 Jul 2008
Posts: 2700
Location: Out there in the cold, getting lonely, getting old
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Sun May 19, 2013 10:21 pm |
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<also raising hand>
Some folks think it stands for "courtesy copy."
As a former civil servant I went through countless manifold carbon sets -- those bound sets of 3-8 copies of the same form with single use carbon sheets between them. |
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