Dont know about that - as a teen, I was fully aware of reel-to-reel, even used a punch-card computer a few times and they were both before my time.
Well, once you learn how to use something, you don’t forget.
These two teens probably will never forget their rotary phone lesson. lol
Somewhere around 30 years ago Bell Atlantic had a large display at the state fair in Richmond, Va..Telephony Through The Ages. They had phones from all ages.
A group of teens were making fun of the “old fashioned” stuff from the “dark ages”.
A woman old enough to be my grandma asked the kids to figure out how to make a call and pointed them to an old no-dial candlestick phone.
They didn’t have a clue.
I was able to tell them how even though I had never used one myself.
When I told them about party lines they couldn’t believe it. “But didn’t people listen” they asked. Yeah kids, thats why you never said anything you didn’t want the whole world to know because every line had one busybody.