Never used a phonebox.....
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DWS said:
Pothole said:
xRIEx said:
DWS said:
or Telex
I'm 33 and have never used TelexThis was the baby!
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Edited by DWS on Thursday 4th September 13:47
I am 49 and I HAVE! That exact model as well. Worked for a computer company and the boss asked me to send a telex as the secretary had gone home. This would have been about 1987 so it's a while back
Cutting edge stuff. I remember talking (typing) to the operator and everything was like a SMS.What about a RF cable or phono cable for video? I think everything will be via HDMI. SCART will slowly be phased out.
I know what Telex and eight-track are, but I've never used them.
Fax, I have used although not for a long time. We still have a fax machine at work, but I've never heard it start that stupid beeping routine.
I'm sure that people were less awkward when organising a meeting in the past, and I suspect because they couldn't just text and change details at the last moment. You used to work out when and where it was possible to meet, and people tended to stick to it more. If you were there before the other, you just waited and looked around you until you saw that person!
Fax, I have used although not for a long time. We still have a fax machine at work, but I've never heard it start that stupid beeping routine.
I'm sure that people were less awkward when organising a meeting in the past, and I suspect because they couldn't just text and change details at the last moment. You used to work out when and where it was possible to meet, and people tended to stick to it more. If you were there before the other, you just waited and looked around you until you saw that person!
StuntmanMike said:
TV? I have never watched much telly, the wife and daughters do, or did, now they watch Netflix and other services on tablets or computers, I cancelled sky, no one noticed, threw the box out, no one noticed, now the only person that uses a TV in our house is me.
So no, it is very rarely on.
I don't think that's typical though, so would disagree on that point.So no, it is very rarely on.
The associated language and image remains though like the floppy disc icon to save. I thought of this when the oldest (4yo) said they had pulled the chain. When was the last time you saw a toilet with a pull chain? I hardly remember them and I'm 40+
Can you 'tape' x-factor is another. It has to be at least 10 years since I actually taped anything.
I was also asked by my son if he could watch the movie that came with his book. It was a CD, he found it hard to grasp that it only had music on it because movies come on discs.
I'll add the yellow pages.
Can you 'tape' x-factor is another. It has to be at least 10 years since I actually taped anything.
I was also asked by my son if he could watch the movie that came with his book. It was a CD, he found it hard to grasp that it only had music on it because movies come on discs.
I'll add the yellow pages.
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