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Things your kids will never know - old school tech!
zridling:
I'm 47 next week and today it struck me the things the next generation -- and to a large extent, the current one -- doesn't know in reference to many technical things. For example, will kids know:
* What a party line ever was? Or a 'land line'?
* What a 'CD' was? Or an album? or a 45? or all the 'file sharing' we did with cassettes!
* What 8.5x11 means or A4? (how many of us spit out paper for our non-letter writing?)
* What 'batch processing' meant? (now that's old school, baby!)
* DOS, damnit! It was simple, and could be fixed in a snap.
* A slide rule?
* What a 35mm camera was? What 'film' was?
* The tank weight, power, and decibel output of an IBM Selectric!
I'm finally beginning to understand what Grandma was talking about way back when I was a kid. But I miss sure that Selectric.
CleverCat:
Yikes, when I had my first typing class in 1965 - we had to practice on an old manual Royal typewriter!
I thought I was 'posh' when we got manual Remingtons.... ;D and...
When I was a teenager, we didn't even have a telephone!
Deozaan:
Those doohickies sure look cool, but what are they for? ;)
4wd:
Those doohickies sure look cool, but what are they for? ;)
-Deozaan (October 21, 2008, 03:21 AM)
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They give you extra grip on the car's gear shift.
mitzevo:
They will know if you tell 'em ;)
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