[Junk Box Nick]

In my first 'permanent' job we had a 'telecopier' which had a rotating drum and would transmit or receive an A4 page in six minutes. It was hooked up to the one telephone in a room shared by five people so we were 'incommunicado' when it was handling traffic. It was a pressure environment but amazingly we got our work done efficiently - mainly due to that fact that 'those upstairs' would provide a considered and complete brief. When phones appeared on each desk we were soon on the slippery slope to 'brief by instalment'.