Serber and Greene purchased supplies for the new office, including stationery and a mimeograph machine. The cyclostyle was a more automated type of mimeograph machine that produced reproductions faster. The original Coles Notes were typed up by Mrs. Alcorn, and produced by mimeograph machine. Riley and Thomson published the early newsletters for years using a mimeograph machine. When published now, it is photocopied, but originally it was done on a mimeograph machine. The first issue of "IBON Facts and Figures" was produced using a borrowed mimeograph machine. Mary Appelhof purchased an old mimeograph machine from the Democratic Party in the early 1970s.