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This is the only place I could think to post this, since ex military might remember these, but I haven't been in the military since the late 90s, I don't know if they still use these. I was in the Navy so that is where I saw them. Haven't seen them since.
They were the annoucement, or new memo clipboards that used to hang in departments when there were new memos. They hung usually by a nail on the wall, looked like clipboards, but had a big ring so that you could take it down, read through them at a table and flip the pages until you read through all the pages and then initialed it somewhere. They were brown and cheap with a big metal ring.
I'm asking, because my current department in a hospital just posts random memos all over the place, and I was telling my boss about these clipboards, and have searched for them in vain.
They are clipboards... I always preferred the short ones. These are the official National Stock Numbers for two of the sizes. joe from dayton ' s recommendation from above looks good.
Description Color Type U/I NSN
9 x 12 1/2 in Composition Board EA 7520-00-281-5918
9 x 15 1/2 in Composition Board EA 7520-00-254-4610
"but had a big ring so that you could take it down" are probably those round key rings. We had nails in the wall...
They had the clipboard, but the metal clamp piece was absent. Instead there were 2 holes on each end with big metal round rings in them so that the paper could easily be flipped.
I guess they just don't make them anywhere anymore.
This is the only place I could think to post this, since ex military might remember these, but I haven't been in the military since the late 90s, I don't know if they still use these. I was in the Navy so that is where I saw them. Haven't seen them since.
They were the annoucement, or new memo clipboards that used to hang in departments when there were new memos. They hung usually by a nail on the wall, looked like clipboards, but had a big ring so that you could take it down, read through them at a table and flip the pages until you read through all the pages and then initialed it somewhere. They were brown and cheap with a big metal ring.
I'm asking, because my current department in a hospital just posts random memos all over the place, and I was telling my boss about these clipboards, and have searched for them in vain.
I remember those - in the 90s.
I retired in 2005. No longer used them. Well maybe the person with the additional duty of building manager logged in things every now and then.
I remember we even had official bulletin boards - even a reg on what was supposed to be on them. That went out eventually.
What are other people doing? Is it something that just bothers you because you remember how things were done in the military?
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