The Post - Just hit "Print"!

I just saw the Oscar-nominated "The Post", using MoviePass of course! (See "MoviePass - Fulfilling those 2018 resolutions".)

The movie does a great job of bringing back the look and feel of the Vietnam-War era, but I did notice one concession to modern times. Early on, where scenes show the illicitly gathered "Pentagon Papers" being photo-copied. While the nearly room-sized, single-page input machine seemed to correspond to what I remember of photocopiers in those days, the "button" shown being pushed to initiate the copy process was labeled "Print" - something I find implausible in those days. It was "copying" not "printing" after all!

Only a few decades later, when the Multi-Function Peripheral era was beginning, that the idea of reproducing a printed page was just another way of printing!

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