Posted on 01/19/2019 9:36:36 AM PST by NRx
How many of you chronological snobs would have any idea of how to operate a 1940’s vintage tabulator without instructions?
Interesting comments from a few days ago if anyone cares to scan thru them
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3719226/posts
Don’t need a can opener for “Hot Pockets”!
I remember crank phones and “party lines”. LOL.
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Two longs and a short, etc.
Doesn’t matter. We didn’t whine about it. We just did it.
Great riposte to all the know-it-all chronological snobs on this thread.
Recently, I was conversing with a couple of 20-somethings at my fitness club - one was earning an MBA at night in addition to his daytime job at an engineering company.
I mentioned I used a slide rule in my high school Chemistry & Physics classes...and they both were absolutely clueless.
And most can only tell time by a digital clock ask one what time is if it’s a quarter after one.
These youngsters would have trouble with an analog clock.
They would have NO idea what “a quarter to six” could possibly mean.
I knew around 1974, when the TI SR-50 came out that the slide rule was obsolete. I knew around 1990 when Excel was on every PC that the calculator was obsolete.
My seven year old grandson has no problem with analog clocks or a “quarter to six” and he can probably do long division better than you.
...after the Trimline Phones came thru,
I had a company-owned Motorola "Brick" Phone, for a year, when I worked in Midtown Manhattan,
And I had a Motorola "Bag" Phone, for a couple years, until the clamshell cellphones arrived.
I was riding a cross town bus in Manhattan one day and I saw a guy walking down the street using a brick phone.
They were just coming out and it was the first time I saw someone using it.
My grandparents had one when I was young, we used to beg for permission to make calls with it. Grandpa’s hobby in retirement was selling antiques. The rotary phone in the house was more fun than the really old (Like in the Andy Griffith Show) phone for sale in one of his sheds.
To me, the real message is that these teens don't care to watch old movies or TV shows. If they did, they'd have seen the characters use these phones many, many times.
That's the disappointing part, their lack of interest in older movies and TV shows.
-PJ
Does anybody remember that you could actually lift the handset out of the cradle and tap the disconnect button to dial a phone number (instead of using the dialer)?
If it was in the 80s or early 90s, there were only a few of us who had them, considering what they cost.
When I was in college (late 60’s, early 70’s), that is how I used rotary phones with locks on them in administration offices in the student union building. Worked every time, and I always made my phone calls.
...and person to person collect calls.
BTW, I wonder what happened to the millions of phone booths with wooden doors.
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