Funny Thought About Technological Future

whatdidyousay! said:
The tape recorders that have reels like a movie reel . I have not seen one of these in years! We had one and used it all the time!
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Ha, ha, yeah, we did, too! When I was a kid, I had a small portable one. My brother and I used to make recorded skits on it, with me imitating different celebrity voices. :giggle:
 
Reba said:
Ha, ha, yeah, we did, too! When I was a kid, I had a small portable one. My brother and I used to make recorded skits on it, with me imitating different celebrity voices. :giggle:
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My sister and some friends did a skit and pretended to be gangsters , and my day was taking a nap in the living room. He heard strange voices talking about making hit , poor dad woke up thinking he was going to get robbed! It was recorder playing , someone left it on!! LOL!!
 
We still have a manual typewriter, a rotary dial telephone, an old computer before disks (TRS-80 Model 1, 2 & 3), a reel to reel tape player, all kinds of old home movies and the projector, an original Viewmaster, a working Brownie camera, a working 8-track player and 8-track tapes, a Singer Treadle Sewing Machine and I'm not sure what else.

My kids are already asking what we did before computers.
 
This is a really neat post on here. I love the topic.

Maybe eventually we will all end up going to either a CI or HA (completely inside like pace maker) and they will wonder what those things are that hung from our ears once ago. Kind of like Analog HA? This might be a far stretch but, could happen eventually in our lifetime or another.
 
KristinaB said:
We still have a manual typewriter, a rotary dial telephone, an old computer before disks (TRS-80 Model 1, 2 & 3), a reel to reel tape player, all kinds of old home movies and the projector, an original Viewmaster, a working Brownie camera, a working 8-track player and 8-track tapes, a Singer Treadle Sewing Machine and I'm not sure what else.

My kids are already asking what we did before computers.
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But there will be no film for cameras in a few years. I find this sad in a way! I like the old way better.
You could open a museum up!!
 
KristinaB said:
We still have a manual typewriter, a rotary dial telephone, an old computer before disks (TRS-80 Model 1, 2 & 3), a reel to reel tape player, all kinds of old home movies and the projector, an original Viewmaster, a working Brownie camera, a working 8-track player and 8-track tapes, a Singer Treadle Sewing Machine and I'm not sure what else.

My kids are already asking what we did before computers.
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No wonder it took you so many trips from the garage to the storage unit. :shock:
 
KristinaB said:
We still have a manual typewriter, a rotary dial telephone, an old computer before disks (TRS-80 Model 1, 2 & 3), a reel to reel tape player, all kinds of old home movies and the projector, an original Viewmaster, a working Brownie camera, a working 8-track player and 8-track tapes, a Singer Treadle Sewing Machine and I'm not sure what else.

My kids are already asking what we did before computers.
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I still have my original Viewmaster, too, from the 50's.

I also have my grandmother's stereopticon/stereoscope and the stereo picture cards from the 1800's, including Lincoln's funeral.

I still have a couple of old cameras (late 30's-50's) from family members that I don't want to give up. :)

I wish I still had an old black rotary dial phone. It would look cool with my typewriter. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to keep our old phones under the old AT&T "laws." :(
 
Reba said:
I still have my original Viewmaster, too, from the 50's.

I also have my grandmother's stereopticon/stereoscope and the stereo picture cards from the 1800's, including Lincoln's funeral.

I still have a couple of old cameras (late 30's-50's) from family members that I don't want to give up. :)

I wish I still had an old black rotary dial phone. It would look cool with my typewriter. Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to keep our old phones under the old AT&T "laws." :(
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What AT&T laws? What is that about?

Yiz
 
yizuman said:
What AT&T laws? What is that about?

Yiz
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Telephone equipment used to belong to the phone company, not the customer. Phones were leased, not purchased. If a customer moved, the phones couldn't be taken from the house. If a customer needed a new phone, the repairman brought it and took the old one. The number of phones and hookups per house were limited.

If you watch old movies, notice that even the wealthy families didn't have phones in every room.

The first time we had two phones in our house was when I was 16 years old. We had a wall phone in the kitchen, and a table-top phone that could be plugged in to a few different rooms. My brother got the wire and connections from Radio Shack and put them in so we could move the phone.

Eventually, when the FCC told AT&T that it had to break up its monopoly, people were able to buy and keep their own phones. They opened up the Phone Center Stores in malls to sell their phones. It was revolutionary! :lol:

AT&T charges elderly widow $14,000 in "rent" for rotary phone - Computerworld Blogs
 
Reba said:
Telephone equipment used to belong to the phone company, not the customer. Phones were leased, not purchased. If a customer moved, the phones couldn't be taken from the house. If a customer needed a new phone, the repairman brought it and took the old one. The number of phones and hookups per house were limited.

If you watch old movies, notice that even the wealthy families didn't have phones in every room.

The first time we had two phones in our house was when I was 16 years old. We had a wall phone in the kitchen, and a table-top phone that could be plugged in to a few different rooms. My brother got the wire and connections from Radio Shack and put them in so we could move the phone.

Eventually, when the FCC told AT&T that it had to break up its monopoly, people were able to buy and keep their own phones. They opened up the Phone Center Stores in malls to sell their phones. It was revolutionary! :lol:

AT&T charges elderly widow $14,000 in "rent" for rotary phone - Computerworld Blogs
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Well, that blows. Yeah, those old phones if kept, coulda ended up being worth a load of money one day.

Darn shame.

Yiz
 
My brother just asked me "what's a polaroid picture?" *rolls eyes* you say cheese, someone presses the button and the camera throws up your picture thats what it is :D
 
ladysolitary85 said:
My brother just asked me "what's a polaroid picture?" *rolls eyes* you say cheese, someone presses the button and the camera throws up your picture thats what it is :D
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LOL "throws up your picture" ROFL

What expression did he give when you said that? :rofl:

Yiz
 
We still have 2 of those cameras as well.

LoveBlue- The reason we had so many trips to storage? Most of the stuff was everything we had in a 26 foot moving truck for a family of 5. We have very little in my MIL's house and I am anxiously awaiting the chance to use my own things again. Been 2 years already and may be another 7-9 months. Also, we used a trailer for 2-4 runs, and a pickup bed for another 2 runs of furniture, but the rest was done in the back of the Explorer.
 
"no bro, you don't"
:shock:"wow what a ripoff! I'm getting one! I hate walking to the store waiting an hour for a pic"
"lazy" :roll:
 
Cool thread. I admit to not keeping collectibles. If I did, i would have so much I could post about here. As it is, I remember the typewriters, TTYs, black and white computer monitors, polaroids, VCRs, cassette tapes, even albums my parents had (and just finally got rid of), shoveling, so much more.
 
StSapphire said:
Who the heck still has prints of photos? I just look at my pictures on the computer, lol.
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I digitized all of my family photos going back to the late 1800's. Took me months to get them all done, but it was worth the effort. No more deterioration.
 
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