[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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

[newfreep]

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.

[Political Junkie Too]

I don't think a 1940’s vintage tabulator was commonplace in peoples' homes. They were specialty equipment, like vintage cash registers that the average person also wouldn't know how to operate.

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

[Mears]

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

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Or a mimeograph. I could operate both but doubt that my kids or grandkids could.

I also know that they would not know how to defrost a refrigerator or stoke a coal burning furnace——again,things that I know.

Making fun of kids that can’t figure out a dial phone is just plain silly.

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[GingisK]

Yep, I figured that out in a very short time. Easy, intuitive.

[bytesmith]

Good point. I dd not know how to add until 1946.