What Things That We Used To Have In The Past Have Gone Completely

[gollob]

like Telegrams, VHS systems and Betamax Blockbuster shops , Dewhurst Butchers who had over 1000 shops at one time.
Then in today's world what will disappear in the next decade like M & S Debenhams , Fenwick etc

[woofgang]

I don't write many letters by hand now because if I hold a pen for more than a few words, my finger locks which is very painful. When I do write though I use a Mont Blanc fountain pen and I also use it to add the salutation and signature to typed letters

[Prudie]

I remember Gestetner Jackdaw but it wasn't that. Done some googling and it was a spirit duplicator we called a Banda Machine (and the ink was purple).

[Mamyalynne]

Also known as a Roneo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_duplicator

[Buenchico]

>>> Gestetner was the machine

Not in any school I've ever been in. The 'spirit duplicator' (to give it its proper name) was always known as the Banda machine (from the manufacturer's name, Block and Anderson):
https://www.tvcream.co.uk/bric-a-brac/a-m-bric-a-brac/b-is-for-bric-a-brac/banda-duplicators/

[Cloverjo]

Yes, I remember the Banda machine. When worksheets were handed out in class we’d all have a good sniff of the ink. Lovely! :)

[calmck]

We were talking about this today. Convalescent homes belonging to main hospitals. Clacton House and Athlon House for The Middlesex. No bed blockers out to the bracing sea air of Clacton with Almoners sorting out who went where and for how long. Matrons who ran the hospital, doctors and nurses with a no nonsense attitude. Marshall and Snelgrove Dickens and Jones

[Peter Pedant]

// I still use a clunky calculating machine. //
god I last used one in Porton Down 1969.

I had an oil change once and got one of those cheap clive dodahs calculators

[Peter Pedant]

top copy was called the skin
they werent A4 or A5 so they were hell to keep

not lithograph
gomboola-graph?

convalescent homes for hospital have all closed I think
I am not sure what happened to the funds that were willed to set then up - - the money has to be used for the purpose for which it was bequeathed
Zachary merton ( children hosp manchester) had gone by 1980.

[Cloverjo]

I use my clunky one for bookkeeping so I can easily check for mistakes on the printout.

[Buenchico]

I was recently clearing out a drawer full of audio cassettes, some of which were unlabelled. So I decided to play them. (Yes, I've still got a cassette player!) I found that they were full of a series of tones, which was the only way (back in the mid-1980s) to save computer programs written on the BBC Model B computers at the school where I taught.

At least that was better though than the first computer programs I wrote at college. They were written in Fortran IV, and later in Basic, ready to be typed onto punched cards. Those cards then had to be POSTED(!) to the Polytechnic, so that the programs could be run on their computer, with the printed output being posted back to us. A single keying error when punching the cards could wreck a program, so I'd then have to type out another set of cards and put those into the post, praying that I'd not made any more errors!

[Jackdaw33]

I was thinking of something else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestetner

[Prudie]

Yep did that at Uni Chris except mine were in Algol. You had to put the cards in the pigeon hole and got the print out about 3 days later.

[Peter Pedant]

yes roneo
the physics master did three-colour ....

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I did a
timme of chest pain-time of call to ambulance-time of arrival of ambulance- time of arrival in hospital

series which is stored on a beeb computer, and tape

to no international interest at all - make that no interest local or general
so now we will never know what call times and ambulance arrival times were - - forty years ago

( pretty terrible I recall)

[shoota]

Pistols....
Unless you're a blackguard or a peeler.

[Cloverjo]

I recently found my old ZX Spectrum computer games on cassettes. Remember waiting minutes for all the beeps to load onto the computer. My son thought it was hilarious.

[bhg481]

My first computer in 1963 was a Ferranti Pegasus. Programmed in autocode, punched onto 5-hole tape which you read into the computer yourself (no operators). All output was on 5-hole tape and was printed on a Creed teleprinter one character at a time. No magnetic storage (tape or disc) and all valve (no transistors).

[Cloverjo]

Are there any shops that still sell typewriter ribbons or record player styluses (styli?)?

[Canary42]

Corporal punishment in schools.

[bhg481]

radio licence