Ancient technology

Furryanimal

Furryanimal

Y gath o Gymru
Location
Wales
What's a piece of ancient technology you owned or remember?Perhaps you have something that still works..

A friend of mine had one of these-
8fca7934c2e5c8c2775f55e4fbadd9f7.jpg


 

Hehe. I guess the term "ancient technology" is relative. I certainly wouldn't include anything with a transistor or a printed circuit board.

My dad's sliderule (which I still have and can still use), maybe.
 

Furryanimal said:
'Ancient' technology-like the sixties to the early 2000's!
Click to expand...
Hahahahahaha!! That describes 90% of the non-consumables in our house!
I do have a nice Marantz 450W receiver and Pioneer direct-drive turntable from the early '70s downstairs. I keep meaning to bring 'em up so we can "spin some platters". :fun:
 
Kodak Instamatic 110.

I've still got one like the one pictured and a couple of flash cubes in the closet.....might be kinda hard finding film for it nowadays.
768x576x2.jpg

DSC06716.jpg
 
rgp said:
How many remember the four-track?..........before the eight-track?..........or the in-car record players before that?.........they didn't work very well at all.
Click to expand...

In high school, I had a friend who had an in-car record player in his new, burgundy '65 Mustang. Very cool at the time!
 
IKE said:
Kodak Instamatic 110.

I've still got one like the one pictured and a couple of flash cubes in the closet.....might be kinda hard finding film for it nowadays.
768x576x2.jpg

DSC06716.jpg
Click to expand...
i had one of those.Bet someone has a stash of film somewhere!
 
image.jpgThe View Master! Small slides were on circular disks that you put into a viewer, and held towards a light source to view. A click of a lever changed to the next image, and hundreds of titles were available.
 
Fyrefox said:
View attachment 61428The View Master! Small slides were on circular disks that you put into a viewer, and held towards a light source to view. A click of a lever changed to the next image, and hundreds of titles were available.
Click to expand...

My wife worked there!

Just off hwy 217, Beaverton OR
In its waning days
Graveyard shift

A bit OT, but, hey, I’m a wordy cuss.

Rather large facility
And dank
Airplane glue was the main ingredient
Bosses had been there forever
Mean

She’d come home pooped
One morning she was extra tired
I asked how her night went

‘Oh, gawd I’m tired, I was on Mickey’s face all night’

Heh, couldn’t help but snicker at what went thru my mind

So, I’d share

She didn’t find the humor


Anyway, they shut down the place
Hazmat sealed off the area and hauled out large truck loads of contaminated earth

Not sure where they took it all, but hope not to see it real soon

xX4jkDP.jpg
 
And these kids trying to figure out that phone will some day be out in the world contributing to society. Then again, in my day, I couldn't figure out how the smoke signal thing worked.

Of course there soon was the pony express so I could write a letter instead of almost burning down the town...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top