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To: NRx

A rotary dial is far from intuitive. Chronological snobbery is a two-way street.


2 posted on 01/19/2019 9:40:43 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“A rotary dial is far from intuitive.”

Really? What teenage boy doesn’t want to put his finger into a hole and spin it?


5 posted on 01/19/2019 9:43:18 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“A rotary dial is far from intuitive.”

Which is why it worked so well long before the several generations of idiots were born?


14 posted on 01/19/2019 9:58:32 AM PST by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and America!.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Please. You have to know to dial clockwise until you hit the stop and then release it. And then wait until it returns on its own, you can’t just pull it back. None of this is at all intuitive.


15 posted on 01/19/2019 9:59:44 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

How many of you chronological snobs would have any idea of how to operate a 1940’s vintage tabulator without instructions?


21 posted on 01/19/2019 10:02:44 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You should see them with a vacuum tube radio.


81 posted on 01/19/2019 4:09:51 PM PST by GingisK
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