belts
Posted By: ej on 2009-03-25
In Reply to: I'd have loved tapes when I started...we used belts! nm - TechSupport
Same here. Then went to IBM MTST (sort of like a computer. It was huge and had a desk of its own. I could not even use one now if it existed. To me, it went down when the big companies tried to take over more and more hospitals. When the small companies or individuals had it things were much better. Also they were on tapes. I used to drive up to 120 miles for one hospital to pick up overflow. Yes, I would love to go back! Even then you never knew when you would have work or some one would undercut you, but it was better.
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LOL. Used those belts in 1978. sm
IBM Selectric III and everyone fighting over corrective tape. One PDR, Dorland's, and Sloane's Medical Word Book for the whole office. No such thing as school and a wide variety of medical terminology books.
I started in the 60s, before belts even. SM
We used wax records and had a press to smooth out the grooves and reuse them. The stat machine was down at the switchboard and we used to walk down and get our records a couple of times a day. We were using Royal typewriters, four carbons, all different colors with carbon paper and different colored liquid paper. We had two reference books, Dorlands and a red surgical book, which I still have somewhere.
I remember the belts. Dictation was clearer on those than sm
the cell phone and/or digital garbage available today.
I'd have loved tapes when I started...we used belts! nm
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Belts, then regular cassette tapes...
then mini, then micro...an IBM Selectric then magnetic cards, then magnetic tapes...those were the days! 
My first job out of high school, we had those belts. That was in 1964. Whoa!!
Vinyl belts. Thanks for the memory, Mine was legal, but all the same.
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Geeze, I remember the wax belts, and the red surgical book that was waxy, too! nm
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I did legal transcription using the old vinyl belts. A LONG time ago. LOL
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OMG I did too!!! Remember the raunchy equipment and "blue belts". People these days should
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In the "old days" of dictation on vinyl belts, the quota was do to 15 minutes an hour. sm
To me, it seems realistic, but then again, each situation is different. On account I know, I can usually do 30 minutes an hour, although being money-oriented and paid by the line, I usually gauge things by lines. I do 250-300 lph, but those little dinky reports ARE an irritation -- no argument there -- hardly enter the header info and *poof* the dictation is over. Would be hard to make a decent line count that way.
But ... surely your employers understand there are variations on such things. Maybe you average 8.9 one month and 12 the next ... I would think it would even out.
Anyway, i'm into that gray zone where I know nothing about, but I wish you good luck. To me, in the days when I was supervisor, if I knew someone was doing the best they could do, that was all that mattered to me.
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