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Published: 2010-01-19 03:01:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 197; Favourites: 4; Downloads: 14
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I've got high speed communication, word processor with spell check. Who says I'm behind the times?I remember back in the 80's there was a computer program that turned your computer into just another typewriter. The letters would be printed one at a time as you typed them. It would seem like a pointless function, but it was very handy for weaning people from their old typewriters.
If the power goes out, I'll still be able to type.
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Cool stuff - there was this time at my house where all my friends were doing schoolwork just as we got hit with a thunderstorm and what turned out to be a 12-hour power outage, so I just ran upstairs and schlepped like 6 typewriters for everybody to finish their papers on.
The sound, man, it was glorious.
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I say it's the times that are wrong. 
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Yeah, I love stupid, old technology. It gives you more control. I got my dad to get me a record player for Christmas a few years back, because records are cheaper and so much easier to figure out than MP3s. And I have two vehicles, one is 42 years old and the other is 15, and they are SO MUCH MORE pleasant to drive than new cars. My mom got a 98 minivan, (over ten, yes, but this was a VERY ADVANCED, HIGH-END model for 98), and that thing drives us INSANE. We had to read through the goddam novel that is the user manual to de-program some of the stuff it came with. Weird, weird stuff. Like whenever we put it into reverse, all the door locked us inside. o_O And when mom turned on the radio, the headlights would come on. My 68 Mustang does whatever I damn well tell it to do
I'm trying to convince my grandma to give me her rotary dial phone
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Last time I checked, you could still talk to someone with this phone, but you can no longer dial a number. The phone company did away with the "pulse" system back in the early nineties.
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Thats weird...I clearly remember calling my mom at home on my grandma's dial phone about 8 years back...are you sure that one isn't just broken?
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My mistake. I did some research. Turns out the changes they made in the 90's made touch tone the standard default service and then "pulse dialing" became a special option (instead of the other way around). Up until that time I had the pulse dialing because it was cheaper.
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Ah. That makes more sense.
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We had baby blue rotary phones too... you're making me remember my pre-tech childhood.
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This phone is something from the fifties. The receiver weighs like a pound. If you slapped that up to your ear like you would a modern phone, you could give yourself a concussion.
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LOL! People were stronger back then... people did physical labor.
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wow... my family used to have one of those... used to play with it as a kid... but the letters would get stuck in the up position.
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At the time I went off to college (a lot of good that did me) most professionals were using electric typewriters. But most of us students couldn't afford one so we went to the library and used their manual typewriters. Now that I think about it, we used electric typewriters in my high school typing class.
I think charity organizations collected up a lot of the old typewriters and shipped them off to Africa.
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I remember using type writers... OMG... I remember... writing essays on the models available in the 80s... lordy... times have changed. Typing a school paper was optional for a while. Its insane remembering living through the whole computer revolution. My dad worked in Aerospace for a while and he would bring home the latest thing. Its staggering how far we've come in such short of time.
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I'm rereading your comment and suddenly I'm reminded of a story from my childhood. West of Olathe Kansas, at the corner of W 151st and Moonlight, there is an old nondescript house (just a mile or so from my grandparent's farm). In that house was an old lady who had lived there all her life. She remembered as a girl looking out the kitchen window and seeing oxen pulling wagons west on the Sante Fe Trail. And then as an old lady she could look out that same window and see jet airplanes taking off and landing.
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WOAH!! That is amazing... we have really really come a long way... its crazy to think there are more technological breakthroughs to be revealed by the end of this year that will change how we live our lives.
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