Oh How Things Have Changed

[Bazile]

Just had a chat with a colleague about things that have disappeared / almost disappeared over very recent years -

Remember carbon paper ?

I remember writing a letter out long hand - sending it to the typing pool - receiving letter back - correcting typing errors - sending back to typing pool .

Oh how technology have come on a pace in a very short while .

What are your recalls

[237SJ]

Handwritten prescriptions (in indesipherable writing) from the doctor.
The computer dial-up sound
Cinema style film screens in aeroplanes
Typewriter rubbers

[carrust]

Gestetner machines and having to get up to change channels on the TV.

[AlwaysConfused]

punch cards at work. Haven't seen them in a long while.

[bhg481]

One unmovable telephone in the house.

[Bazile]

Wasn't there remote tv before remote tv - i.e . a control connected to the tv , by a cable - or am i imagining it ?

[AlwaysConfused]

You are not imagining it. I wasn't privileged to have one of those remotes, but a friend of mine had one.

[bhg481]

One TV channel - so no need for a remote control.

[Butterbun]

TV's went off at 10pm. Test card for most of the day.

[chaptazbru2]

Ah yes I remember carbon paper well and those stencil machines were we'd run off loads of copies of typed accounts turning the machine by hand ! Sitting for ages taking page after age of shorthand and sometimes struggling to read it all back, thank God when dictaphone machines came in. Oh and the old manual typewriters. Happy days !

[BlackadderV]

Typewriters, certainly in commercial premises.

[carrust]

Outside toilets and no central heating.

[bhg481]

Contact-breaker points in cars (major cause of failing to start) and the need for a service, including oil change every 3000 miles.

[Bazile]

nuts - oh no we still have those :-)

[Bazile]

that was in response to carrust post

[Garador]

Pint of bitter 1/5d and 20 Players 3/10d

[Clanad]

The light up Princess phone...
Floppy disks
Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Pay Phones
Developing camera film
Pay checks
Micro Fiche

[EDDIE51]

When I started work in 1968 we only had a mechanical adding machine, at least it was better than Log tables.
Slide rule , remember them?
Wind up watches and clocks.

[EDDIE51]

Light ale , used to drink 'Light and lime' as it was cheaper than Larger .

[Bazile]

EDDIE51 - you mentioning watches , reminds me of the digital ones with the dark glass , where the displays lit up in red