Writing yesterdays blog reminded me of something I hadn’t thought about in a long while. The electric typewriter. Well, I am sure that there must be many of you young things out there that have never actually seen one let alone used one! Oh woe me, not only did I use the electric golfball version but I was actually taught how to type on a manual! How old am I ……… How many of you remember some of the dinosaurs listed below?
- manual and/or electric (golfball) typewriters
- telex machines
- plug-in switchboards
- adding machines with the tally roll
- record players, stereos
- cassette tapes
- LP’s and singles records (I have a whole toybox full that I am so loath to get rid of)
- Slides – my dad used to take hundreds of ’slide’ photos and then we would all gather around to watch a slide show
- wooden tennis racquets
OK – think about those and others that I may have left out. Take a trip down memory lane. I seriously think that I have given my age away here …..
ICE said,
June 16, 2008 @ 6:54 pm
Yip, know the whole list.
My Dad still had an 8-track tape player in his bakkie. At one stage it became mine and I converted it to mains power for use in our games/playroom.
No idea what happened to it…
sdragoc said,
June 16, 2008 @ 10:11 pm
My husband has a whole collection of old LP’s and he would DIE if anything ever happened to them. I scoff at those young ones who don’t know the joy of a record!
sdragoc said,
June 16, 2008 @ 10:12 pm
PS I also secretly buy old cassette tapes at the local thrift shop-old 80’s music is my secret obsession
wendz said,
June 17, 2008 @ 7:34 am
I also refuse to get rid of my cassettes – I also still listen to them much to the disgust of my son …..
Bet you buy those old tapes at an absolute song (excuse the pun!)
chronic said,
June 17, 2008 @ 10:29 am
i remeber most of those, if only by refernance
sheralyn said,
June 17, 2008 @ 11:57 am
Although I am only 31, I remember all that stuff. My parents hated waste, so we used all their stuff for a loooong time.
I loved my wooden tennis racquet. I thought it was excellent, and strong enough to hit that arsehole bully on the head with. Yeah!
Keep up your lovely blog, I am addicted.
xxx
wendz said,
June 17, 2008 @ 4:04 pm
thanks Sheralyn – yip, there are a million and one uses for a wooden tennis racquet – and not one of them is playing tennis …… Thanks for your lovely comments … I also enjoy your blog (and didn’t even know it was you … duh!)
Ginny said,
June 17, 2008 @ 8:40 pm
I learned to type on a manual typewriter. When we got good at it, we were allowed to move up to the electrics. I’m 33, so manuals weren’t common anymore, I just went to a really poor school.
justmylife said,
June 18, 2008 @ 2:46 am
I remember all of those. I remember 8 tracks… so how old am I?
wendz said,
June 18, 2008 @ 8:57 am
I suppose one day our kids will be laughing at the fact that they remember Ipods …..
Ginny … don’t you think we manual typewriter learners are about the best typists around. We HAD to use ALL fingers …
tismee2 said,
July 13, 2008 @ 11:02 am
I came across an original ‘floppy disk’ at work one day while clearing out am old cupboard. I remember eing shown how to use ‘the computer’ when getting some work experience in an admin office and was scared to death of breaking it. There were racks and racks of floppy disks that contained about half a page of information on each one.
How did we cope?