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OK Alex...
Is it the a 3/8" square drive for a socket wrench?
 
HealeyRick said:
Oddly enough, no.
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Dictaphone?
 
1970s man-bag... or Dictaphone of some kind. :p
No, wait, Mission Impossible recorder about to burn up after Phelps uses it.
 
a-HA! The IBM Executary 224, a dictating machine from the 1960s.

The "electronic secretary" - no man should be without one.
 
NutmegCT said:
a-HA! The IBM Executary 224, a dictating machine from the 1960s.

The "electronic secretary" - no man should be without one.
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Like I said... man-bag. LOL
 
Boink said:
Like I said... man-bag. LOL
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Hey, watch it! I carried the darned thing for years. It's NOT a "Dictaphone" - that was a competitor.

Yes, it's a dictating machine. It has a magnetic belt about 2 inches wide inside in a single loop. You recorded "dictation" and then gave the belt to a "secretary" to transcribe.
Those were the days...

Tom was right the first time, I'm just being snippy.

"Manbag" indeed!

I still have it.
 
I do remember these (though I never used one). Probably a collector's item now.
 
Ready for another?

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What were these used for?
 
Depends on how you define "printing". And it wasn't just "printing", but also "erasing".
 
They'd bring back "really old memories" ...
 
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