I'm so old I Remember when:

[BDutch]

And how much milk? 2 T same s the oil?

No way. Add as much milk as needed to be able to pour the dough. If you want thinner pancakes add more milk to make it more fluid.

 

[RoyalChick]

I learned on an IBM Selectric. With the little dancing ball. You could take it out and replace it with different ones to change fonts. Italics. Sans Serif. Whatever your little paycheck could afford. I think my class was the first to use them otherwise we would have been banging away on manual Olympics, too.

I remember carbon paper. And white-out. And ... what was that purple stuff they used to make copies? Not carbon paper, the other purple stuff.

I learned to type on a manual typewriter. I remember when the ball electric ones came in and got access to one at night to type my college assignments. It was like magic!
Do you mean mimeographs? Those were purple copies that we got handed out for things like assignments in school.

 

[Sally PB]

And the blue copies were mimeographs.

And as someone else mentioned, ditto machine! That's what we called it in our school.

Do you mean mimeographs? Those were purple copies that we got handed out for things like assignments in school.

And the ink ran if it got wet. Spill a glass of water, and the page became illegible.

 

[RoyalChick]

And as someone else mentioned, ditto machine! That's what we called it in our school.

And the ink ran if it got wet. Spill a glass of water, and the page became illegible.

Oh yes! Forgot about that.