It died
Our tape duplicator died and this is my email announcing its triumphant end:
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen...Today I want to take a few moments to eulogize the passing of a very important member of the Access Services Team, who not only was my personal favorite piece of equipment, but who served as the role and fashion model for our entire team. Now let us remember the good times we had with this wonderful piece of history....err....equipment. Let's now have a minute of silence for the Telex tape duplicator.
The tape duplicator officially died today at 4pm after courageously duplicating the human physiology lecture. She held out long enough to copy the first half of the lecture only to give us her last breath and die. So as it goes we are in the midst of finding another means of duplicating the lectures onto tapes. For the time being we are going to be patient and optimistic."
The duplicator has been in use longer than most of my students have been alive, wild isn't it? The machine is 25 years old and was used almost every weekday. Impressive! The durability of electronics made today cannot match the lasting power of the older machines. We are sad to see this reliable piece of equipment leave. Thankfully our digitization project is almost ready, online is the way to go, why did it take us so long? Of course that will not reduce the number of complaints that will be coming. This is going to be an interesting ending to the term. Students are going to be very unhappy. Hey at least most of the year was covered, I thought all students went to class EVERY day and took very detailed notes, there really is no need for these tapes. HaHaHa.
"Friends, Romans, Countrymen...Today I want to take a few moments to eulogize the passing of a very important member of the Access Services Team, who not only was my personal favorite piece of equipment, but who served as the role and fashion model for our entire team. Now let us remember the good times we had with this wonderful piece of history....err....equipment. Let's now have a minute of silence for the Telex tape duplicator.
The tape duplicator officially died today at 4pm after courageously duplicating the human physiology lecture. She held out long enough to copy the first half of the lecture only to give us her last breath and die. So as it goes we are in the midst of finding another means of duplicating the lectures onto tapes. For the time being we are going to be patient and optimistic."
The duplicator has been in use longer than most of my students have been alive, wild isn't it? The machine is 25 years old and was used almost every weekday. Impressive! The durability of electronics made today cannot match the lasting power of the older machines. We are sad to see this reliable piece of equipment leave. Thankfully our digitization project is almost ready, online is the way to go, why did it take us so long? Of course that will not reduce the number of complaints that will be coming. This is going to be an interesting ending to the term. Students are going to be very unhappy. Hey at least most of the year was covered, I thought all students went to class EVERY day and took very detailed notes, there really is no need for these tapes. HaHaHa.
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