Old technology you have to explain to kids

[joe]

The lawnmower.

Get off my lawn — but mow it before you leave, you damn dirty hippie!

 

[jackfinarelli]

Try explaining this numerical seqence:

78 ... 45 ... 33 1/3 ...

 

[wicked]

As I recall, these cost about $999 when they hit the market.

That's it? I figured a couple grand, easily.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

I watched "Argo" today at the theater. It was amazingly true to 1980 in office scenes. Typewriters, rotary phones, all kinds of fun stuff.

Related to debit and credit cards, remember how they were processed? Carbon copy paper on top of your card, which made an imprint of the raised card number. Then you signed the slip.

I remember buying something at Zayre, and the clerk pulled out a little newsprint booklet that had all the "hot" numbers for stolen and counterfeit cards. She had to manually check the card against the book before she could ring up the sale.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

Couldn't get much cooler than this.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

 

[workerB12]

Electronic football tables are back massagers, if they can support the weight. This is garage sale advice.

 

[Beef03]

On a different subject, who understands what I mean when I say I need the "channel changers".

Yup, I was it. Although when my parents finally did get a TV with a channel changer we called it a flicker.

Had to explain to an intern this summer that this is how we used to get our photos.

 

[Beef03]

Anyone ever use one of these to play CDs in the car?

My brother, who is 17, doesn't understand this is how I used to play music in my car.

 

[Huggy]

I bought $40 worth of forking film and didn't even own a camera.

Records store junkies might remember this:

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Every year in school, our librarian would spend a couple of days explaining how to use this. And it was still a pain in the ass.

Even in college I remember one or two classes freshman year where they showed us this, and then, how big a deal it was that a computer could find a book for you.

 

[EStreetJoe]

I bought $40 worth of forking film and didn't even own a camera.

Ratner! What are you doing here?