IsabelC Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 As soon as I saw the thread on rotary phones, I remembered how annoying it was when I had to make a large number of phone calls and ended up having to change dialing fingers because my finger got sore. And dial-up internet that took a-g-e-s to get on, then you couldn't use the phone while on the internet. Anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 I don't miss cassette tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 You don't miss the days of making compilations from the radio?! I still have, somewhere, a cassette on which I recorded my dh (then boyfriend) phoning in to dedicate a song to me! (Yes, I'm that old!) But we don't have any device to play it on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigs Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 You don't miss the days of making compilations from the radio?! I still have, somewhere, a cassette on which I recorded my dh (then boyfriend) phoning in to dedicate a song to me! (Yes, I'm that old!) But we don't have any device to play it on. There are services that will convert cassette to CD. I've never done that, but it might work out for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Cassettes and video tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Typewriters and carbon paper to make extra copies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Personal computers that took up as much space as an entire student desk (maybe more). My first cell phone, which was bigger than a shoebox. Antennas connected to the TV, that you had to jimmy around to get reception. Also, antennas connected to the radio. The fsssssss that was nighttime TV. Having to go to Kinko's produce a presentation for class or work. Having to go to the university computer lab to receive an email. Typing my 22-page law license application manually in triplicate. Overhead projectors. Reel to reel movie projectors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Non-digital cameras, and trying not to waste film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Adding machines Physical library card catalogs Having to go to a university library if I had a question about my tax return or other government form. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTMCassandra Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Having to go inside to pay for gas Having to pay $$$ for long distance calls Tying up my phone line to get on the internet Typewriters However: I miss physical library card catalogs. I thought they were super cool and I often found interesting things on the way to my topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechWife Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 The sound a modem made when dialing in to the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthodox6 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Non-digital cameras, and trying not to waste film. Voting with the "opposition party" on this one. For me, my "real" cameras are my father's Zeiss and Rolle (misspelled) cameras (non-digital). He taught me on these, and I was thrilled when he gave them to me a few years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Everything exchanged in person or by snail mail. Hardcopy department store catalogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Dial up internet (I'M ON THE PHONE HERE), VHS tapes, and cassette tapes. Oh, TVs with no remotes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 The way tape players would eat the cassette tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 When I was little, my dad was a TV repair man. I remember all these big old tube things he used to have to install. (Darned if I can remember what they were called. Not the picture tube, the cylindrical ones that went in the chassis.) My dad had this big carry case for all the fixit stuff - the case was bigger than I was. And my mom used to do budgeting in a spiral notebook at the kitchen table. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Going inside the bank and waiting in line to cash / deposit the weekly paycheck. Making popcorn in a saucepan on the stove. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommy22alyns Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Non-digital cameras, and trying not to waste film. Having to wait to see how your pictures turned out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 TVs with tubes. They are darn heavy and take up too much space. I agree with the film cameras. DH and I were talking about that the other day. You had to buy the film . Then bring it to be developed. And many times you'd get maybe a couple of good pictures out of several. I love that now you can take a zillion pictures for virtually not cost and if you happen to love one can print the one picture and it's not super expensive. Yes and weekly deposits....and checks. Corded phones. The cord would always eventually get all dumb and knotted. At that point you had to just buy a new one because there was no salvaging it when it got like that. Card catalogs at the library. I'm sure I'll think of more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SparklyUnicorn Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Oh yeah and dial-up! I know some people have no other options still, but wow that was annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Oh! Paper phone books. What a waste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieB Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Adding machines Physical library card catalogs Having to go to a university library if I had a question about my tax return or other government form. I :001_wub: :001_wub: :001_wub: my adding machine! There is just something so satisfying about the sound it makes, and the paper tape coming out with numbers on it, made by the ink ribbon (that needs to be replaced <_< ) . However, I *much* prefer my laptop to my TRS-80 and original Mac! And wired keyboards & mice - darn those cords, just another thing to get all tangled up in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 My folks' woodburning stove. (It was my job to keep it burning all winter long. Or else.) Though I do like a nice fireplace occasionally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Having to go to the movies to see a movie. Richard Simmons being the only in-home exercise option. :P Having to choose between "needs ironing daily" and "feels uncomfortable and looks ugly." Full-serve only at the gas station. And deciding between Lead and No-Lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Going inside the bank and waiting in line to cash / deposit the weekly paycheck. Making popcorn in a saucepan on the stove. I still do this. I did it tonight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Having to go to the movies to see a movie. Richard Simmons being the only in-home exercise option. :p Having to choose between "needs ironing daily" and "feels uncomfortable and looks ugly." Full-serve only at the gas station. And deciding between Lead and No-Lead. Wasn't Jane Fonda before Richard Simmons? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MomtoCandJ Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 The choice between PBS, ABC, NBC and CBS and only if you stood in that certain position with the rabbit ears. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Typewriters and carbon paper to make extra copies. I had two years of typing and two years of shorthand. In first-year typing, which was, of course, on manual typewriters, the keys on the typewriters were blank. There was a big poster in the front of the classroom with the keyboard on it. We *had* to learn to type by touch. In second-year typing, our Twentieth Century typing textbook came with a workbook, so that if we were supposed to type a letter on letterhead, plus an envelope, there was a corresponding letterhead with an "envelope" on the back. Ditto with purchase orders or any other sort of form we might need to know how to set up and type. All letters were done with *six* carbons, necessitating erasing seven pieces of paper (including putting slips of paper between each carbon so that when we erased the next, we didn't leave a mark on the one below it, if you see what I mean). I was in South Carolina for second year typing; the humidity was so high that it was difficult to erase on the paper we were using. o_0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Wasn't Jane Fonda before Richard Simmons? They might have been around the same time. The big fitness/aerobics thing took off in the 70s and 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I still have very fond sentimental memories of my great-aunt's rotary phone. (I grew up with one, they were the norm.) all metal parts, weighed a ton, I had to use two fingers (or a pencil for leverage) in order to dial it when I was a child. dated to at least the early 40's - possibly earlier. (the house was built in the 20's.) and the sound . . . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 whitehawk, on 25 Jan 2015 - 2:24 PM, said:whitehawk, on 25 Jan 2015 - 2:24 PM, said:I don't miss cassette tapes. how about 8-track? :laugh: OMG I do NOT miss the 70's. ugh. that was one UUuuGGggLLllYYyy decade. blech. the hair - blackmail material - leisure suits, disco. :eek: :ack2: :ack2: :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsabelC Posted January 26, 2015 Author Share Posted January 26, 2015 Ooh, I forgot to say: not being able to request library books online. I was actually taught to search for books in a card file system. And I think there was actual paperwork involved with requesting a book from another library. The horror! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PinkTulip Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I was the youngest in my family, so I was the remote control. I always had to sit up too close to the TV and change the channel when my older brother and sisters would tell me to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I don't miss cassette tapes. I don't miss having to save computer programs on cassette tapes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garga Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I DO miss VHS tapes. My dh and I pop movies in and out of the DVD player all the time. I hate how I have to remember exactly where I left off or try to find the scene every time my DVD is popped out mid-movie. With a VHS tape, if my movie is taken out of the player I can pop it back in and pick up right where I left off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I don't miss having to save computer programs on cassette tapes. LOL I have argued with people that this actually existed. They don't believe me when I say we had cassettes for our computer classes. They always try to correct me. I vividly remember those and writing endless If-then statements to make little DOS words move across the screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 While I had 8 track tapes and TVs with knobs that had to be turned and tuned to individual stations.....what I am glad they improved on where the DIskman that I used to play CDs in my car and remote controls that had wires to attach them to the device. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 We have a VHS player to watch Star Wars because the DVD editions weren't acceptable to my husband. I also still have mix tapes. I also have a record collection and turntable and stereo system tho I have put them in storage while we are in this smallish apartment. We used a rotary phone as long as we kept a home number. I've never had a popcorn maker and we don't have a microwave. Pan on the stove is how we make it still. I don't miss those 900 MHz cordless phones that hissed interference. I would say in my house the desktop computer is on its way to near irrelevance. I definitely don't miss tape backups for the work computer network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I DO miss VHS tapes. My dh and I pop movies in and out of the DVD player all the time. I hate how I have to remember exactly where I left off or try to find the scene every time my DVD is popped out mid-movie. With a VHS tape, if my movie is taken out of the player I can pop it back in and pick up right where I left off. Our old dvd player did this. It remembered where you last watched even if you watched something else in between. Sadly it died after nearly 10 years. Our *new* dvd player isn't as smart. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I don't miss Zip drives! Or 3.5 floppies or 5.25 and 8 inch floppies. Though apparently floppies are still in use in the White House and government agencies. Crazy. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/us/politics/her-task-weaning-the-white-house-off-floppy-disks.html?referrer= Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsuga Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I hate CDs more than cassette tapes. Cassette tapes wore out slowly. CDs could just get scratched and poof, it's gone. I could fix a cassette. I hated CDs from beginning to end! The choice between PBS, ABC, NBC and CBS and only if you stood in that certain position with the rabbit ears. We still have this and with the savings on cable two of our children have music lessons. Totally worth the inconvenience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 This all made me look it up, and lo and behold... A rotary cell phone. Too much hassle? Love your iPhone? Get the app instead! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vida Winter Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I'll be a dissenter - I adore all the old technology including rotary phones and manual typewriters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I don't miss Zip drives! Or 3.5 floppies or 5.25 and 8 inch floppies. Though apparently floppies are still in use in the White House and government agencies. Crazy. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/04/us/politics/her-task-weaning-the-white-house-off-floppy-disks.html?referrer= My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20. Floppy disks all the way. :-) We were thrilled when we upgraded from a 9-pin printer to a ...I've even forgotten. 25 pins? My first *real* computer was an original IBM 8088. It had a 20mb hard drive, which we thought was awesome; when we turned it on, we'd go fix a cup of tea and maybe take a shower because it took so long for the little minions inside to get everything going. :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 lol right before I read this post I turned to dh and said, "huh? Do you think they mean floppy drive?" Google datasette for images. Also backup tapes are still available/in use for some workplace network environments. I was making a back up tape for my work every day as recently as 2008. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape_drive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forget-Me-Not Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Typewriters and carbon paper to make extra copies.One of my kids asked for carbon paper for her birthday a year or two ago :D I was surprised she even knew what it was! I think my MIL gave her some to play with at her house. I remember making copies with the mimeograph machine in jr high. I don't miss those! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Deleting glitchy post Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 We had two channel knobs on our TV: VHF and UHF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 If I could name one technology I'm glad has been updated, the winner would have to be outhouses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nevergiveup Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I'll be a dissenter - I adore all the old technology including rotary phones and manual typewriters. Then you've never used a card punch for programming computer.......... I am a fossil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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