Can You Name These Old Things?
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 23. 04. 2022
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Try this fun quiz to see how many of these things from the past you remember. What happened to the good old days? From toys to old school modern technology.đ€Ł If you are over 50 you should be able to get most of these correct.
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I think that first one is a hard disk. Weren't floppy disks larger and flexible, hence the term floppy?
@Ken Fullman Thank you for the clarification.đ·đ·
Slap bracelets remember those then they were banned because children wrist were being cut but the metal of the bracelet. OW
@@pauladautremont1728 That was a 3 1/2" floppy disk.
People who complain about stepping on Legoâs have never stepped on JacksâŠnow THAT was pain!
Hello, howâre you doing Emily?
So very very true!
I hear what you are saying Emily. I remember once when I was in the 6th grade I stepped on one of those jacks(they were metal back then) and actually broke the little bugger! Maaa-aaan!! Did that hurt something fierce.
@@brianfalls5038 They arenât metal anymore? You must have been very painful if you stepped on it hard enough to break it! I thought they were indestructible!
@@choosejesus1es Hahahaha! Till that day I actually broke one then I thought they were too! I actually broke off 2 of the jacks prongs that day. I don't know. I must have stepped on it just right. All I know is that it hurt like crazy. LOL. I can't believe I didn't punch a hole in my foot with that one
I remember waiting for the TV to warm up. There was no need for a remote-thatâs what children were for.
And giving the TV a good thump on the side to correct the picture - and rabbit ears!
I was my dad's remote control. My dad built our first color tv from a Heath kit that covered our dining table for two months and he built the cabinet to house it in. We had all of three channels available and the rabbit ear antennae had to be readjusted for each station. The manual knob to change channels would also induce changes in the horizontal and vertical holds which I would have to recalibrate with every click, not to mention contrast (I'm color blind and asking me to tone down the green skin on people was an impossibility). When I was in third grade I learned I had to wear glasses. The old man was disgusted and blamed it on me for sitting too close to the tv. Can't win for losing.
@@ricknoyb1613 Yes when we had a TV, I was the remote control device too. My grandmother suggested I get my eyes checked, and at age 5 it was discovered I was legally blind. Now somewhere in those 5 years of my life you would think my parents would have discovered I couldn't see so well, duh. I remember going into the eye doctors and the assistant asking me to read the eye chart, and I told her I didn't know how to read. I was only 5 and at the time, you were not expected to know how to read at that age, unlike today, where kids are so much more advanced at 5 years of age. Parents are great huh! ha ha ha. Thankfully I'm still seeing, despite a life time of eye issues. Go EYE DOCTORS, they are the best.
We once again have to wait for the TV to âwarm upâ while all the cable channels load!
And don't watch the little dot in the middle of the screen blink out, a child your age did that and died when the light blinked out . . . so go out and play instead of staying inside watching telly all the time! I have the oddest feeling that way back when, it was 'Og, enough staring at the fire! Get out and get us some mastodon meat!"
That laundry "mangler" is called a wringer where I was raised. Other than that, I did pretty well.
The commercial wringers were often called mangles.
@@Bobrogers99 Quite right, as confirmed in the Derek & Clive lyrics: "Laugh, we nearly shat. We had not laughed so much since Grandma died or Auntie Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle. We are miserable sinners, filthy ....etc"
And you learned to stay well clear of those rollers.... Those things were flat out dangerous.
I said âwringerâ too, used to put my nans sheets through this every Monday
We always referred to the large free standing one, as shown in the picture, as a mangle, but a smaller version that attached to the sink or draining board as a wringer.
The âjukeboxâ is actually a âwallboxâ- a remote device that controlled a jukebox.
That particular unit was manufactured by Seeburg.
Indeed, a remote unit.
Yeah I was thinking that also.
Gotta give credit to the kids that put this video together. I can see how teens today, wouldn't have a clue what a pencil sharpener looks like. We are getting old my friends!
correct
I called it a tabletop jukebox. They used to sit right on the table in many diners.
A friend of mine went back to college to take some courses. In his class were some engineering students who were carrying these calculators on their belt. My friend Greg remarked that when he was in college in the 60's the engineering students carried slide rules on their belts. As he was explaining to them what a slide rule was, the professor came in the room and jumped in on the conversation. To Greg's amazement, the professor didn't know what a slide rule either.
Only the nerd engineering students carried slide rules on their belts. Maybe that's why I didn't last too long in the engineering profession!?
@@Mrfixitmarty It was the 60's before "Texas Instruments". The slide rule was the only way engineering students could calculate large numbers. The first Texas Instruments electronic calculator was extremely limited, but contained more data storage and code than our Gemini capsules.
@@Mrfixitmarty How did you come to this piece of information? Did you poll all the nerds in the world, or all the humans who used slide rules? Wow! What an undertaking, to poll all those humans. I'm surprised you're not still polling them. Imagine the work.
Wow
@@Mrfixitmarty When computers became popular, engineering students stopped wearing calculators. I was taking a computer science class where the teacher had put this huge octal number he wanted us to convert to decimal. When nobody could do it in the allotted time, our teacher said, "What do you mean? ALL nerds carry calculators on their belts!"
We replied, "We don't. We use *computers*.
#2 is more commonly called a wringer, although "mangle" always maintained popularity in the UK. #17 is the selector, probably on the dividing wall of your booth in the cafe (The jukebox would be the big thing across the room that actually holds the records.).
That was actually a Nickelodeon. We need to bring those back, but with disposable earbuds. Leave the phone, for other fun stuff.đ
As in 'he looks like he's been through the wringer'
Yes it's a wringer
The Dutch word for this thing is also âwringerâ.
As in âheâs really got his tit in a wringer this time!â OrâŠ.a really bad situation in which to be.
Also, if someone is going off for something innocuous, you would sayâŠ.âdude, donât get your tit in a wringer!â
74 years of age, I nailed the lot, all 25 of them, including the Ration Book.
I'm only a young'un of 70 so I didn't get the enigma machine. In 1952, the year of my birth (I'm the tenth child), my old ma often told me when I came into the world, ration books went out. And she was glad to see the back of them.
@@jackdotblue The World War 2 Enigma Machine was used for 'coding' secret messages.
Awesome video :) However, in the 1980's, no one ever called an Atari 2600 Game Console a "computer", it was a video game console, and the "juke box" is not a juke box, it is a remote console installed at multiple tables in a restaurant, used to control an actual juke box. The plotter pen cartridge definitely brought back memories :)
Thanks. I agree, we always called them video games, but I had to use the correct name otherwise everyone would have said I'd got it wrong. Thanks for watching đđ
The fountain pen I use daily still uses those cartriges, I have a packet of spares in the drawer and you can buy them (and the pens) in any supermarket here.
We still called them juke boxes. Not all of us were geniuses, or engineers.
We just called it Atari...."Let's go play Atari"
Yeah, that's not a juke box - it has no records in it. It's a remote selector.
Okay, so, being an old guy I got all of these. Except that I referred to the laundry item as a wringer instead of a mangler, but I claim that as a legit answer.
However, I take issue with the hand drill. It is only referred to as a âhandâ drill because we now have electric drills. At the time, they would never call it a hand drill, because there was no other option. In the same way they didnât say âdirt roadsâ until they invented paved roads.
So, what you called a hand drill, in fact, was called a âbit braceâ. And they can still be purchased if you want one.
Good points, but a brace had a different mechanism. Those had the U shaped handle that was rotated around the axis between your chest and the auger, no gears.
@@mayorb3366 ahhhh, you are correct. It had that round piece on the top that you leaned against. I didnât look close enough at the image to see the difference.
@@mayorb3366 They were called "brace and bit", not like a girl I knew who was referred to as a "brazen bit"
@@rogerbarton497 Do you have her number by any chance?
@@christopherdean1326 Sorry, that phone box has long been demolished.
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9/10 had no idea on the Enigma machine. I still have a slide rule used in high school - lol. And an ancient crank pencil sharpener which still works better than anything newer. The 'floppy disk" picture showed is actually a diskette. My first computer used real floppy disks which were about twice as big as diskettes and had a memory of about 30 double-spaced typed pages. I upgraded to an IBM-286 clone 10 years later which used the smaller/harder diskettes which had 1.44MB of memory versus the floppy 360KB. Seemed like Heaven - lol. Now I'm running in gigabytes. Thanks for the pics!
Thank you! Diskette is what I said, too...
the 8" and 5.25" were floppy disks. The pictured 3.5" is also called a stiffy disk. Technically all three sizes are diskettes.
Good catch! Do you remember those big Wang computer floppy drives? I think they were 12" or larger
@@LightOfReason7 I don't recall them, sorry! Largest I ever saw was 8". Around 1972-73 I worked evenings for a company which backed their computers up every night. I do recall these large *heavy* disk packs which were used, and IIRC, they were placed at the end of my shift and maybe ran all night. I did keypunch, too, and something called key tape ;-) Maybe those disk packs used the 12" size? I know they were stacked inside with disks. Multiple packs were used at a time. BTW, bought my first "pc" in 1982, a Kaypro II.
My dad had an Osbourne, the first portable computer. It was the size of a medium sized suitcase. Had 2 eight inch floppy drives and a four inch monochrome screen, text only.
He paid $1,800 for it in 1982.
Lol! I did this with 3 of my granddaughters. When I got all but 2 of them correct, the youngest said, " Did you guys have dinosaurs as pets back then?" I fell to the floor laughing! She thought she made me cry because I was laughing so hard. Kids say the darnedest things. Anyway, she said, "Well, did ya?" She was so serious. I said, "No honey I am not quite that old." Thank you for the memories.
you should just tell them no but you had to dress really warm for the last iceage
@@icedriver2207 Lol! I'll let them know.
I had to laugh, so did my brother, we are over 60 yrs old. Kids really know how to make feel young! Still giggling!!! Haha!!!
@@icedriver2207 LOL! GREAT COMEBACK!
OMG Good one Naomi! My grandkids can't sit still long enough to get to know what their Gramma knows lol. Glad you got to share this with them. How fun!
I believe the cassette player at 2:19 is actually a cassette recorder as indicated by the red button and the jukebox at 2:41 was actually a jukebox remote control for the jukebox. Each table at the diner had one so you could select music without leaving the table. Great quiz. Thanks.
You are correct. On the table at diners! They were before my time, but I knew what it was.
You are correct. They are not jukeboxes, but remote controls for juke boxes so the patron did not have to go across the room to spend their money or make a selection. Properly they are the Seeburg "Wall-O-Matic" units.
@@woody8851 Outstanding! You win. I didn't know they had a name. ;-)
It's a (Walkman style) personal cassette recorder. Quite a few of them were capable of recording.
Here in southern Maryland, there is/was a sort of 50's theme restaurant that still had those jukebox "remotes" in place. And, actually working on my first visits there, around 20 years ago. They weren't working the last time I was there, and, unfortunately, it appears the place closed just this past month.
That was not a jukebox. That was a wallbox which is a remote selector for a jukebox.
It was a table top jukebox usually found on each table in a diner.
@@jertoneg1830 I'm in the jukebox business. Saying that is a jukebox is like saying a remote control is a television set. It is a wallbox, a wired remote for a jukebox that allowed to play the jukebox from your table or booth.
Potato, patahto
@@Zip22Zip Seems to me, if the records (usually 45s) are actually in the table machine--it's a jukebox. If the table machine is just sending your selection to a jukebox elsewhere--then it's a remote selector.
Looking at the photo again, I'd say you are probably correct because I don't see any 45s.
The "Ration Book" stumped me - the Enigma machine wasn't even in the running for me - lol
i still have my late mother's ration book.
I did use those old ink cartridges for fountain pens, and they were an improvement on siphoning ink up from the bottle to fill a rubber balloon
The Enigma machine I've seen in museums and movies.
Ration books were before my time as I was born in late '53.
An enigma machine? Well, sure, didn't Every household have one of those?!? đđ€Ș
I had no idea about THAT ration BOOK? Not sure if that was the AMERICAN version used in WWII ????
#2 The Laundry Mangle is also called a Clothes Wringer. It sat on top of the Clothes Washer, so we could feed our wet clothes through while turning the Hand Crank, squishing out the water.
Technology allowed us to use the motor of the Washing Machine to power this, eventually.
Thanks to our concern for Safety, there were no mechanisms included to make it stop when some poor little girl's arm (or even her mother's!) got stuck in it. And then got "De-Gloved." (DON'T GOOGLE PICTURES OF THIS!)
I'm an Engineer. There is no one stupider than an Engineer who thinks he's Smart.
My dad and 2 of my siblings are also engineers. Guess where I learned this lesson from?
Yup. My family. Including that stupid sibling I only ever see in the mirror.
Does anyone remember the flavoured drinking straws from the early 60's? They were pink stripes for strawberry and brown stripes for chocolate and you used them with milk. They were made with waxed paper.
I remember these things my grandmother had waiting for us called pop fizz(?). They were basically flavored alka seltzer tablets you dropped in water. We loved them. Flash forward 30 years and I came across the product in a small store. I had to get a pack. Long story short I did the spit take of all spit takes trying to get that taste out of my mouth, truly disgusting. I did the same thing with Chef Boy R Dee beef raviolis a couple years ago. They were a staple for quick lunches growing up, but as an adult, though I know not what dog food actually tastes like, I would swear their "beef" filling would fit the bill. I am trying to remember the name of a cereal that had a cartoon Sherlock Holmes-type character on the box. I'm thinking between 1965 - 1970. Any help?
@@ricknoyb1613 It's not you.....it's the manufacturers. They use fillers and crap ingredients today. The tablets were called Fizzies.....I remember the character with the cereal, but not his name.
@@ricknoyb1613 they were called fizzies!
Jackie...Yes I remember those. The name Flavor Straws comes to mind.
@@bruceh3786 Yeah the pink ones sucked, the chocolate ones were ok ...
Brought back so many memories...until the late 60's (that's 1960's kids) we had a wringer washer that mom would have to drag out and set up. We had a coal/wood burning stove til about 1960. We lived in Vancouver in a new subdivision and when power was out, all the neighbours would come over to get hot water so they could try and fix meals or at least warm baby bottles for all the 70 babies in the 2 block area.
My grandmother used a wringer to do laundry every Monday. It was so fun to feed the clothes through and see them come out so much drier on the other side.I think she hung everything out to dry practically year round, and then of course ironed on Tuesday, even the sheets.
There were 70 babies in a 2 block area? Wow what was in the water there, lol!
There were 70 babies in a 2 block area? Wow what was in the water there, lol!
I called it a wringer, too. The only time I heard the term mangler used was in a short story by Stephen King.
Good memories tks
I remember when they went from flash bulbs to flash cubes along time ago,Now everyone uses their phones for pictures. Loved playing jacksâŠ.Grabbing onesies twosies in threes before the ball hit the ground!Stepping on one of those was worse than stepping on a Lego if thatâs possibleđ
Thanks for sharing your memories. You are right about those jacks đ
yes , worse than Lego , cause they could break the skin , and hurt for days instead of the Legos for hours
hooda thunkit back then eh?
For extra credit, do you remember the two types of flash cubes? :)
@@crusinscamp Curiosity question do you remember the different film sizes? I remember my older sister got a Kodak Instamatic for Christmas. It used flash cubes. I had to hand me down cameras from the 1930s that used flash bulbs and odd sized film. My parents later got the slim Kodak Instamatic. I think that was 110? My parents had the older Polaroid where you had to peel the picture apart and the top had a negative image. I had the newer plastic camera like the one in the video where it just ejected the picture.
They aren't featured but reel-to-reel tape decks, there's a homemade blue table in the room next to me that me and my dad(god rest his soul) built together. On it is a turntable, a reverberator, 6-disc cd changer, dual cassette deck, radio with auto tune, and 5 ree-to-reel tape decks. My dad LOVED this stuff and he would play reels and records all day AND all night. His favorite was mo town.
Thanks for sharing your memoriesđ I remember the first time I saw a video recorder. That was also reel-to-reel. Before Betamax and VHS came out. I thought it was witchcraft how it could record and then play back TV.
I remembered every one of these. Oh my, I'm old!
I've still got three slide rules. Used them for many years as an Engineer. Still use it occasionally just to remember how to. Never had to change the batteries.
@TRECAM6...Batteries NOT needed and to misquote Col. Ravenshaw, "Simplicity is the EPITOME of EXCELLENCE!"
Iâm about to turn 67 and just retired a few months ago. We still used slide rules when I was in high school, but by the time I was in college everyone had hand-held calculators. I never did trust my accuracy with the slide rule, though and did the calculations in longhand to verify. The hand-held calculators were a blessing!
I went through college doing my papers on a manual typewriter. Thank goodness I had no idea how much easier it would be in a few years with word processors. I would have been SO depressed knowing I was in the last generation that had to do it the hard way!
In high school in the early 1970s, I also took computer science, with punch cards and FORTRAN. By the time I went back years later to take some night classes, things had changed dramatically. For my tech writing job I had to learn various software applications as well as become proficient in desktop publishing. It was necessary to adapt as technology progressed around me. When I was in high school, I never would have dreamed what my cell phone is capable of doing. It would have seemed like science fiction.
Definitely knew what most of the items are, but I may have used a different name for them. Still have my cassette player and it works great! Thank goodness I didn't know what a ration book was, that was well before my time,lol. Thanks for the upload.
Holy smokes! I laughed out loud several times :-) I hadn't seen some of these items in a loooong time!
Glad you enjoyed!
7/10 the hand drill could've also been a hand mixer. I have one in my cupboard now. I also occasionally use it. The mechanism is the same. Tyfs.đ
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I agree the mechanism is the same, but I want to know where youâd get the brontosaurus for a grinder that heavily built.
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@@creigh8341 a mixer isn't a grinder.
That's what confused me, too. I thought it was a hand mixer/egg beater. I have both...my grandmother's hand mixer and my grandfather's old tool box with a hand drill inside. I compared them after watching this and there is not that big a difference in them except that the drill has thicker parts.
2:31 Without seeing the handle or the working end, this could also be an eggbeater. My grandparents had both.
Not based on the color (red) of the gizmo. Tools were often red and/or black enamel paint but a kitchen hand mixer was aluminum or stainless steel, ie, silver metal.
@@maryschmidt6128 Very early egg beaters/hand mixers looked just like that! You're thinking of later ones.
I thought it was an egg beater too because they didn't show the whole thing.
What, with a chuck on it?
I got most of them, although I didn't know them all by the name you used. But the enigma machine? How many of us ever saw one of those in our lives? Wasn't it a coding device from WWII?
There are some good books on the enigma machine and also some interesting videos documentaries on you tube also on the enigma machine. The Germans were so sure it was impossible to crack the code on these machines, they didn't even give any thought to the idea any one could read their encrypted messages.
That's what James Bond received in "From Russia With Love"!
Yes, the Germans were quite proud of it. Fortunately, the Allies had the Bletchley Park code-breakers.
@@kfl611 Aha yes so many fond childhood memories of using the Enigma machine hours and hours of fun. I remember me and Bobby Jenkins decrypted a high level message of Hitler activating the boys to invade Europe in the spring of 1940, such fond memories
@@Mrfixitmarty Except they called it a Lektor decoding machine.
My high School Days were 1956 to 1960 so a majority of these items were in common use then. A couple were extinct, but several hadn't even been invented yet.
I'll be 77 in a few weeks. Remember most of them very well. Knew of those that I didn't personally use. Still have a few of them. Video reminds me of the transition from punch cards and reel to reel data storage to what we have within arms reach these days. BTW, floppy disks, were indeed floppy and were 8" square. The IBM computer S/34 & S/36 used them in batches of 10 stored in a slotted compartment. Also remember the 5.25" diskettes that were used with IBM's first personal computer the PC.
Thanks for sharing your memories. You are right, the large floppy disks were floppy, but the disk inside the smaller ones was still floppy and not a hard disk, only the case was hard.
Happy birthday! Mine ia about to end....5/28..... I knew of 5 1/2 & 3 1/4 disks...& punch cards! "You never saw a deck before?" Happy holiday...we share.
@@markfoster1520 Thank you, Mark. Wishing you a belated happy birthday, as well.
PS: Yep, I still own a tape deck.
IBM S34: now THERE'S a blast from the past!
@@olafeklund6200 Glad there's someone else who remembers that 400 lb "mini" computer that was built on a frame with casters to move it.
To me most of these are quite modern - depends how old one is! By the way the beginning of wisdom is to call items by their correct name. For example there are many types of hand drills - what you showed is a wheel brace. Other comments highlight this!
Exactly a hand Drill had a u shape in it where you grabbed the part outside of and cranked incorrect
Got nearly all coz I'm old - still use the hand drill today. Hey - still works good!!! That was a fun quiz.
Thank you for sharing your memories đđđđ I love reading each and every one of them. It is amazing how many people still have/use these things.
"Waste not, want not" - I try to adhere to the 5 Rs - 'Reduce, Re-use, Repair, Repurpose, Recycle' - sometimes it's (dare I say?) FUN to use (y)our imagination - someone sees a broken bottle/glass, I see candle-holder, a scrying clock etc.
22-8 ... Harder than I thought ...
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Oh ya !Hand operated earth augers for digging wells, floor starters and push button transmissions etc .. Kinda hard to find but still around...
I bought a set of jacks at Cracker Barrel. Myself and the grandchildren played several games.
I got them all correct, but then , I'm old enough to have seen most of them first hand. Recently purchased a portable cassette player off Ebay. Made by Aiwa. Still sounding surprisingly good. My grandmother had a mangle. No wonder clothes needed ironing back in those days.
Aiwa has a lovely sound; probably one of the best cassette players around. I wish cars still had cassettes - they're so much easier to use than the distracting music players they put in these days.
Clothes needed ironing due to the cloth they were made of, the lack of fabric softener. Laundry soap was homemade or store bought, but it was made from rendered fats and lye, clothes were boiled as well. Don't blame the mangle or wringer , it saved a lot of drudgery of ring out clothes, towels sheets by hand.
@@christinemeleg4535 the clothes were/are half ironed by the wringer or mangle, not fluffed up, so the ironing should be easier.
I remember the rubber (I suppose it was) wringer rollers on Mum's old machine. I can just about remember the copper and the blue bags too. I'm not sure where you are, I'm in Australia; you mightn't have had Reckitt's blue.
Most people have never seen an Enigma machine, and that was not a good or fair example to include in this group.
@@greasylimpet3323 There was a "dolly blue" factory nearish where I went to school at the bottom of the Lake District in England. Think the place was called Backbarrow.
Memory joggers for sure. I remember as a 'junior' systems analyst in 1960 working for a manufacturing company with 17 plants across the US. I helped develop a daily employee time card 'transmission' of data from the plants to one of three data centers using punched paper tape, only slightly faster than pony express.
ah, paper tape, i remember it well. Also the screams of frustration that ensued when someone accidentally tore it.
@@vickiamundsen2933 In the late 1970s I had gone along with another field service engineer (in the UK) to a problem on the M4 motorway services computer installation that controlled the motorway signals. The huge program was on one inch, 8 hole paper tape and it would not load. The programs always indicated a correct load as the tape would stop reading on the last character, this problem caused the tape to completely run through. All the system tests ran OK, we were racking our brains then we asked for a program backup, it loaded OK so the problem was with the tape. Once the program loaded OK we handed the system back over to the police and decided to find the fault in the tape, this would normally be a small tear. We wound the tape out quickly looking for a fault. The tape was avery long one, in this installation the system tapes were white and other tapes were different colours, as we wound the tape out we suddenly noticed a piece of different coloured 'chad' lodged in the tape!! This piece of coloured chad was out of the punch machine and had managed to slip into the system white tape. We couldn't believe it!! Neither of us had ever seen a piece of chad drop into and stay in a punched tape, never spoke to anyone else who had seen it. This was probably the most bizarre fault ever recorded on an Elliott 903 computer system!!!
@@johnwoody9505 that's one for the record books!
I missed 4 but thanks for the journey back to when things were simple. 8 tracks were the worst they were always getting eaten by the player.
My husband still uses a hand drill (he's a cooper who also does carpentry -- all by hand. No electricity used).
I got them all.
We still use, and swear by our Yankee Drill.....best ever! (The battery drill....we learned our (wasteful) lesson on that one!)
My middle school students used an old wall mounted hand pencil sharpener because it worked better than the two electric ones in my classroom.
I Still have one in my basement. Everyone, including grandchildren, use it. Some stuff cannot be improved upon. Also, batteries are a pain.
I remember one of my classmates getting in trouble for grinding his new pencil away to a stub in one.
I remember playing "jacks" when I was a young girl in the 1960s. I also remember the 1960s Polaroid Land Camera. In fact, I still have one. After you took the picture, you took out the picture. Then you had to peel off the negative. You had to keep the picture from the light for 60 seconds while it developed. I also remember the flash bulbs and the flash cubes.
I remember adults talking about the new camera that was coming out soon. It was the Polaroid. I was eight.
@@lyndavonkanel8603 That was probably the one that I'm talking about. It was a Polaroid 600 Series Land Camera. I still have it in the original carrying case along with the original directions on how to use it and one pack of the original film. My brother Jim used it a lot because he loved taking pictures of wildlife in Yellowstone National Park in the 1960s when he was a child.
@@lynettepalecek3141 Cool!
I remember Kodak introduced an instant camera in the 1980s, very similar to how Polaroid worked. They promptly got sued into near-oblivion for it, too.
I had one of those Kodak things. Kodak had to offer to buy them back, too - though you wouldn't get nearly what people paid for them.
I thought they were tile spacesđđđđđ
Slide Rule also called a âSlip Stickâ. Always in my Dadâs pocket as an industrial electrician having to calculate trig to bend and fit curved conduit (metal pipes containing multiple electric wires) into one another neatly. Never wanted a calculator later because if that expensive thing fell out of his pocket and dropped 15 feet, it would break. His slip stick wouldnât. A lot of good reasons to bring them back. Itâs a great gadget!
Or a guessing stick.
The moon shot astronauts used slide rules to calculate re-entry angles.
I was super lucky to find one in it's original really dusty box buried on a shelf in a stationary store in Macao a few years ago. Store owner's grandaughter, looked about twentyish, didn't know what it was.
I still have one of those đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
Sometimes things are changed because the replacement is "new" and therefore "better". Sometimes it is best to not change unless there is a real improvement.
Didnât get enigma machine. Looked like something a stenographer would use.
Hello, howâre you doing?
This was fun. I clicked on this before I knew what it was about and my grandkids thought I was some kind of wizard for guessing every object correctly before the answer showed. âSorry kids, Iâm no wizard. Iâm just old and have a good memory.â
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@Sean
You and me both.
Iâm no wizard either. Iâm more of a Wiccan.
I was born in 1961 so I got most of the items, like 85%, but there were a small number that I didn't know at all like an enigma machine, and some were before my time like a ration book (1940s). We used to have 4 8-Track Tapes in the house. We never had a slide rule in our house, but it was a big deal in 1972 when my father purchased a Casio hand held calculator, it was like 60 bucks. That was fairly unusual for my father, he didn't spend big money like that on items too often.
I guessed that one. Think l'd seen one in a film or something.đ
@@terrystevens5261 No it wouldn't be that one. I don't like the Cumberbatch chap. Could have been Sean Connery in a Bond film.đđđđ
$60 in 1972 is about
$360 in today's money
I still have several Ration Books from the 1940's. I am glad I still have them. With the 2022 inflation I may need to use them soon!
The enigma machine was German and used during WWII, not an everyday item enjoyed by Americans anywhere.
The only thing I didnt know was the enigma machine, a bit before my time, but I did recognise it, but couldn't remember what it was called.
The Enigma was still classified in '95---50 years after the war. A professor pressed the same key twice, to demonstrate how it changed the light between letters. The feds had fits over this being on TV. (Missed Atari---never a gamer).
@@elultimo102 I've got pictures of Enigma machines in books published in the 1980s.
@@tygrkhat4087 ---But the professor actually demonstrated how the Enigma changed with each letter. I believe that is why the feds went crazy. There is still some WW2 tech that is still classified. They only lacked sophisticated computers, but were ingenious with their analog gear. (Check out the vid for the WW2 German torpedo, or the training film for the starting procedure of a B-17----).
I knew it because I had watched 'The Imitation Game' which is all about Alan Turing.
I think there might have been a brand name along the likes of Clickity Clacks (in US). They were so very dangerous- didnât stop us from playing with them though! Doesnât say much for out intelligence as kids đ but it says even less for that of the toy manufacturers.
We called them knuckle busters đ
@@dizzysdoings True that! Ours also had the proclivity to go flying off the string mid-clack causing damage to anything in its wake đ«Good times!
I missed the click-clacks. I only remember two on a string, with a ring in the center. I thought that was a beaded curtain.
I always thought it was funny that they banned Jarts and not these. You had to be a total moron to hurt yourself with Jarts, but any kid could give themselves a Grade A concussion with Clackers.
We called them "Ker-knockers".
Fun fact about slide rules: there are some that are circular rather than linear (like the one shown). On specific type of circular slide rule is called commonly called a "Whiz Wheel" by pilots, and there are still a bunch of us that use them today.
Thanks for sharing đ
In the Strategic Air Command the Circular Sliderule was Called the Doomsday Ruler.
Yes remembered a lot of them. Thank you.
Some things have different names in the UK for example record insert/adaptor was called a spider and a meat grinder is still called a mincer.
Those Clackers were arguably the most dangerous toy ever made! Larger versions of jacks were used to prevent beach landings in WWII. Some of those photos were a bit ambiguous but that was fun!
There was the predictable moral panic from the tabloids with apocryphal stories of kids losing eyes in clacker accidents and so on. Some schools banned them IIRC.
Those clackers will put you eye out
Clackers never took an eye but did give one helluva bruise. It was also quite satisfying to master the skill to keep them clacking for minutes ⊠like 15 minutes ⊠without hitting oneself.
I still use my clackers
Two words; lawn darts
Gee I did not miss any, but I am 80 so knew themđșđžđșđžđșđžđșđž
The first one is actually called a diskette? I remember the transition from the big black floppy drive to the 3.5 hard case disk. Just discovered the channel, look forward to more!
It's absolutely a diskette. There's nothing floppy about it.
Except the actual disk inside? They are called "Floppy disk" not "floppy case" . Here's some more info history-computer.com/floppy-disk/
It is still refered to as a floppy disk, even if it could not flop anymore. it is the same technological principle to my knowledge.
@@andreasottohansen7338 I think the terminology may vary based on region. Iâve been around for the entire history of the floppy disk and where Iâm from, nobody referred to a diskette as a floppy. The technology isnât the same because the casings are radically different In both material and design.
@@dwderp oh nobody where i am from called it that either, but we dont fall the floppy one a floppy disk either, cause we don't speak English here
A lot of these items were around back in the 1970s and 1980s. I was hoping that you would show the old-fashioned press machines that were used to print newspapers and church bulletins. The expression "rolling out the presses came from that machine. You would put a sheet of paper that was a particular length in the machine horizontally. There was a type of ball with ink on it on top above the sheet of paper. You would put the sheet of paper up to that ball. Then, you would turn a handle which would cause the ball to roll over the sheet of paper. The print was on the ball. By turning the handle, the sheet of paper would go over the ball. There was a stack of sheets of paper. When you kept rolling the ball, each sheet of paper from the stack would go around the ball and into another stack of papers that were printed. I hope that you understand what I'm describing. My mother used this kind of machine in 1976 for the church bulletins. We went to a small church then.
This is so interesting! TFS
One of my first jobs as a kid was setting type at the Antelope Valley Press for the printing presses.
Didn't pay all the much and it was a really dirty job, getting the lead off your hands was a chore.
I would have gotten them all correct but my wife interrupted me twice and my cat walked across my keyboard.
I remember almost all of these! Life is easier these days isn't it!!!
A lot easier đ
Is it?
I remember often having to wait ages to use a public payphone whilst someone had a stack of ten pence pieces to get through. đ Trying to find a cab late at night. Trying to read a map whilst driving along the motorway. Many things are easier for me, but that's just my opinion, I'm sure many prefer the good ole days. đđ
But is life really better????
@@elultimo102 What a question. Life, for the most part, is what you make it. Iâm only responsible for how I use the tools available to make the world a better or worse place, and if I am satisfied with what Iâm given, or if I choose to strive for better.
We do have a wider variety of tools and more information available, but how those are used can make a big difference.
The ration book stumped me. Still have and play with "klick klacks" from when I was a kid.
I only missed the ration book because that was too far before my time and I miss judged the hand drill because you only showed the top of it and it looks like an old egg beater.
Scary.....I remember when at least half of these were ânew technologyâ.
Missed 3, all these things brought back fond memories. Thank you.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching.đ
That was fun. I was born in 1961. I remember all of those things except the ration book, stereoscope, enigma machine, and the mimeograph. Thanks for that!
i was born in '61 too and missed the same ones except the mimeograph. i remember getting test papers made with them and the ink had a distinct odor you couldn't help but sniff. you see the kids do it at the beginning of "fast times at ridgemont high". kids seeing that movie today wouldn't know why those students were smelling the papers.
Tom Stanfield :two years after you were born I was 15 and started as an office boy in a news agency operating a mimeograph and typing on a teletype. It is kind of sad, to me, to see people relying on a memory stick to reproduce things on paper and using their thumbs to send messages from their phones.
Remember all of them. Grandparents used the meat grinder for vegetables as well. Used a slide rule in the Navy while the Nucs used calculators. They'd never seen one before. Wanted to know what size battery it took
I missed only the ink pen cartridge. I remember USING virtually all of those things. But then, I also recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of my 21st birthday . . . . . So, like these things, I'm officially a museum artifact.
@Nora Willcutt Aw, thank you.đ
@@hayloft3834 I had to stop and THINK about that for a moment, but hey, you're RIGHT.đ
Yeah but if you ever had one of those in your chest pocket when it leaked out all the ink, is something you would never forget..
aw, the clackers, everyone in elementary school had to have one. it came attached with a ring that you could hook on to your finger, and then you just swung them up and down as fast as you could. it made a really fast clacking sound somewhat like that of an angry rattlesnake. they where made illegal after some of them had shattered and the small pieces had then pierced into an eyeball. they where fun to have for a few days, but then the sensation wore off. they where around, say, the mid seventies.
Thanks for sharing your memoriesđđ
I had one back in 1970 or '71. Mine never broke, thankfully, though I did get bruised arms.
@@Bargle5 yea, that's about the same time that i had mine. all the school kids had to gather at one place to wait on these school buses. there was a store across the road that had sold those things. i bought one after seeing someone else buy one. it's not as easy as it looks the first time, but you soon got the hang of it. if memory serves me correctly, i had loaned it to somebody and he never gave them back. oh well.
Nice old things. 8 of them I didn't know.
I still have an 8 track of Kenny Rogers. Lol I intend on showing it to my grandkid next time they visit. I know I am old enough to have seen many of these items. only one or two escaped my memory. i was in senior year of high school when I first used a computer and learned how to use a floppy disc. I have seen music change so much over the years and about every type of ways of playing music that you can think of. It blows my mind how much technology has changed over the years. And how much kids learn at such young age. However I see a decline in family getting together and doing as much with each other. Seems like everyone is glued to their phones or video games or television and there are so many things that they could be doing as a family. Kids don't get out and play or use their imagination as much. I am so glad my grandkid has parents who have put a limit on screen time of any kind and encourages them to get outdoors every day it is possible.
Thanks for sharing your memories. đ I remember my parents telling me to stop watching TV (we only had 3 stations) and to get outside and playđ
Only missed 2 the mimeograph duplicating machine and the Enigma machine which I'm was used in the second world war..... a little before my time! It really shows how technology has developed over the years. My dad who passed in 2005 had one of the first home computers and would have been fascinated by the technology of a smart phone which we now take for granted.
I was born in 1963, but even though I didnât use some of these, I know of them or have seen them. I never knew the wringer was called a mangler, but itâs pretty appropriately named! Also didnât know of the ration book or Enigma machine. Fun quiz!! My husband was born in 1954 so I will see how well he does.
Hello, howâre you doing Karen?
Yes, I thought it was called a wringer, too.
We used to put the pillowcases in backwards so they would pop!đđ„
I believe the picture shows a wringer that squeezed water from clothing and other fabrics. We had a mangler back in the 50s and 60s and it was a huge electric ironing machine that operated with a long revolving cylinder of almost five feet but basically operated on the same principle as the wringer. I learned to iron clothes on that monster as a ten year old. Born in 1951 I had never seen a ration book either but as a WWII buff I could identify the Enigma machine.
I think it's just the difference between UK and USA. In UK that machine is called a mangle in US it's a wringer.
Aahhh, the good ole days đȘ
I still have a few of these things. I remember most of them đ Making me old. đ€Łđ€Ł
I forgot about the Mimeograph but I still use a slide rule and hand drill. Itâs hard to realise, sometimes, that what once seemed amazing new ideas are now historic relics.
I must be an old relic then, ha ha ha.
I had to produce a birth certificate at my last driver's license. I showed the dmv clerk all I could find was the mimeograph. The blank stare told me he had never heard the term before. Turns out my hospital birth certificate would be worthless anyway. Though he allowed me to go back and find the original without
mentioning it had to be issued by the birth state and not the hospital emblazened on the copy. With the time delay trying to order an official State document, it wound up costing me a couple hundred dollars in penalties.
@@ricknoyb1613 You can order them from the county clerk, in the county you were born in. I usually send them a 'next day air' return envelope, so I get my copy of my birth certificate quickly. I think they charge 5 or 10 dollars a copy. It's not a real birth certificate, but a state issues certificate of your birth - with a state seal, dmv accepts them as proof you were born. I know it's pain. And no matter how often I get mine, and put it in a safe place, the next time I have to update my drivers license, the certificate has grown legs and walked off, never to be seen again. Amazing how that happens, every single time. My grandmother had a mimeograph copy of her mother's birth certificate............I think issued in the 1940's for what ever reason.........she the great grandmother, dropped a strategically placed spot of water on it, so the younger generation could not peak at it and discover how old she was - like who cares..........but she did, and my grandmother did too - as she never discussed her age to anyone......oh well different strokes for different folks.
Great quiz. I didn't know clackers but perhaps not popular in UK. Just a comment about the floppy disc. I knew the one in the photo as a stiffy which came after the floppy that was about 3+" and was, as the name suggests floppy.
Thanks. I'm old enough that I should have remembered the disks were floppier than that picture đ€Ł Clackers were definitely quite popular in the 70s in the UK , I remember them well, although that photo isn't the best of them, but was the only one I could find. Thanks for watching đ
A stiffy? OMG I'm going to be laughing about that for the rest of the day.
The disk in the video was the next generation of disks. These were around 3.5 inches, the older ones were bigger, I think around 7â and they were floppy. Here in the US we continued calling the new ones floppy disks.
Also in the UK but I certainly recall clackers--they were one of the passing fads (think fidget spinner for a more recent example). They were notorious for causing wrist injuries and banned in many schools. Wrist protectors came on the market just in time to miss clacker mania. I'd guess this was around the early 70s as I seem to remember my younger sister having them when I was in secondary school.
@@roxismith6122 It became a popular joke.
The nostalgia !
I missed on the enigma machine and the ration card. I remember like it was yesterday using a dial phone at the house and I used to have one of those gyroscopes when I was growing up. That thing was a blast! The clackers I never could get to work like they showed on the TV. LOL! As for the pencil sharpener? Well now, I've still got our old pencil sharpener from when I was in high school and I graduated back in 77. Great memories all!!
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My dad had that exact same drill. And I can still remember the smell of a typewriter. Thanks for the memoriesđ Showed this to my kids. Cassette player= is that a suitcase đ. Pencil sharpener= Nintendo Switch. Typewriter= piano đđđ
Hand drills are still widely available, I was surprised to see it included.
My Poppa had one as well. A few years after he died I had gone back to my old hometown to visit my Nana and some friends of mine. Nana had me over for dinner one night and had bought a bottle of wine to go with the meal. What she didnât realize at the time was that it had a cork instead of a screw top. She didnât have a corkscrew, but, she did have Poppaâs hand drill. A smart old girl she was, she put a bit in the drill and got to work. Unfortunately, she didnât have the bit in tight enough and was turning the handle the wrong way. Needless to say, the cork went to the bottom of the bottle still holding tight to the bit, wine ended up everywhere, and we still had enough for a glass or two with our meal. She threw out the wine bottle cork and bit. I told her I could break the bottle for her and get the bit out if she wanted. She decided not to. I wish I knew what happened to the drill, as both my grands and my parents are gone now. I chuckle when I think of that dinner.
I only got rid of my old typewriter because I had trouble getting ink ribbons for it. Lol
@@jeanwoodhouse8899 haha - I bought a lot of ribbons while they were easy to find. Black and red ones, and they still get used.
@@campbella2796 Mine is over a hundred years old, belonged to my father. I'm 73 and still use the drill for fine work, works great.
Yup Iâm officially irrevocably...old. I got them all and the realization that many young adults today wouldnât proves it. Thatâs a reality check for you.
I knew most. The slide rule brought a smile. As a young man in the 1960s I worked in an analytical laboratory and owned my own slide rule, but it was a cylindrical slide rule, far more accurate than the standard flat one.
Otis King, Thacher, or Fuller?
My paternal grandparents had an electric wringer washer with a tub on 4 legs, in their basement, possibly dating from their wedding in 1939; I remember the electrical cord came out of one side of the wringer part and was looped in the tub, not plugged in. My grandparents had bought a modern washer and dryer set by the mid-70s, when I was a kid.
I can STILL smell the mimeograph ink on the fresh pages passed out in nearly every classroom through high school; that scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off was spot on! đ đđ»đ
I'm old enough to have been told that if I was going to be an engineer, I should buy the best slide rule I could, since I'd be using it all my professional life. I've still got the K&E log-log duplex decitrig, and I still know how to use it.
My slide rule is an aluminum Pickett and it still works as well as it did when I was working on the F-16 program (although I also used an HP 9830 'calculator').
I was in college in the early 1970s here in the UK and had a British Thornton slide rule. I can remember being so scared of damaging it or losing it because it cost quite a bit of money and my parents didn't have much to spare.
@@hayloft3834 Oh Gosh, I remember those! At school they used to be handed out each lesson. They had dark grey covers. I remember the first time I looked inside and got a fright because it looked like a secret language. In a way, that was right! Imagine what we would've thought if someone told us we would have a handheld computer which could do all the work.
@@hayloft3834 It's an amazing thing. Same with the calculations to save Apollo 13. Obviously the advance of sophisticated computers is great, but I do think a lot is lost by not teaching children how to do maths without them. I can remember when calculators were introduced into UK schools and then they were allowed in exams. My thought was.....what happens if the batteries run out? Will those children know how to make calculations without them? I believe we have de-skilled the post-1970s generations. Not only in maths but in sciences in general. What happens when the grid goes down? How will they manage? By the way, the (wo)Man from Snowy River does appreciate a nice log firel
Never heard of clackers, didnât recognize the Atari, and the stereoscope looks very different from the several my family had. My dad was really into stereo photography. Good memories.
They were called "knockers" where I am from . Made illegal when kids figured out how to use them for bolos !
We called them vlick-clacks, and, yeah, you could hurt yourself if you were not careful.
Here in middle America, we called them clackers, and I had one. I'll never remember what happened to them, but now since they're extinct, I wish I'd saved mine for future generations.
two plastic balls on the ends of a piece of string. in the middle of the string is a small plastic tab that acted as the handle. hold the tab move up and down and if you get it right the balls hit each other at the top and bottom of their arcs and make a noise. Get it wrong and you bashed your fingers or wrist and it hurt. Alternatively, hold one ball whizz the other around your head then let go and see if you can decapitate the guys in the other gang!
I remember the clacker craze
remembered them all old memories.
20/25.Good mix of objects Iâve used most of them.OLD.Thank you for your work!
My uncle published a quarterly newsletter/catalog and we had a mimeograph machine, but it was a much newer model.
I've still got our old rotary wall mount phone that was hard-wired into the wall, even though it quit working years ago.
Also have the wooden hand-crank icecream maker. Happy times.
The phone company hasn't supported dial phones for at least a decade. Land lines using twisted pair wires are also obsolete. Even landlines today are internet VOIP.. I have read of how to make a home telephone network using old dial telephones. That might be fun, especially for kids.
And to inhale the scent of a freshly made mimeograph paper in school....oh the memories!
I couldn't recongnise the Atari thing, but the rest I still remember and sometimes still use.
The floppy disk that you showed isn't really a floppy disk. It's a 3 1/4 inch disk. The real floppy disk was 5/5 inches across and really was floppy (or was it 3.5 inches and 5 1/4?). Been a long time since I had to use one of those things.
I have a hand drill that I use when an electric drill is too severe for precise drilling.
Polaroid sued Kodak for copyright infringement over the instant photography, and won. Kodak had to immediately stop production of their own instant photo cameras and had to give Polaroid several million dollars compensation. BTW, it's called a Polaroid Land Camera, named after it's inventor, 'something' Land.
The record adaptor was made so you could put singles meant for a juke box onto a record player only designed to take LP's. The holes in the centre were much bigger.
I still have my old slide rule which was allowed in exams at the time when calculators were not.
Those flash bulbs were expensive, thankfully my parents used to buy them for me. A 36-exposure film would require 9 of the buggers if you were shooting a party in subdued light!
Used to love clackers at school but they did sometimes result in broken fingers or even wrists. Thankfully never mine. They did sometimes explode too, which led to some schools banning them.
Pencil sharpener, I have something similar bolted on the side of my computer table. Call my old fashioned or what, but it's easier to use than a bloody stanley knife!
I also still have an old meat grinder (mincer in the UK). Is cheaper than buying pre-done mince and you can add whatever you want to the mix.
In the UK, the mimeograph machine was called a copier, have used one of those many many times in the past.... Am I showing my age?
Enigma machine. That is before my time. Really!!!
I still play with a gyroscope sometimes. Second childhood.....
The floppy disks used in personal computers were 5.25" followed by the 3.5" (sometimes called a diskette, and that is the one shown). There were also larger floppy disks (8" and possibly larger) used on commercial computers.
You still use a mimeograph and a gyroscope?
@@carch7243 Not the mimeograph, but the gyroscope amuses for minutes at a time!
@@johnsuffill6520 LOL, I love it!
Close but no cigar. It is a remote control for a jukebox, typically one at each booth. Had a coin box and a list of records you could select from.
The enigma machine was such a cheat. Not one of us owned one of those. ONE was captured off a German submarine. All but one other were destroyed.
Missed 2 Still have my husband slide rule. In the box. Great memories. đ
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I missed 2, the record insert and the stereoscope. Good quiz.
you only needed the record insert if you bought second-hand records from jukeboxes. We did that.
@@jimattrill8933 That isn't true. You needed them for 45's in general for years. My turntable came with one and I still need it at times.
Of all the things on this list, the Enigma is the only one very unlikely to have been found in the average household.
I initially called that Enigma machine a comptometer. Our sports club had a couple of ancient accounting comptometers that looked very similar to that which we used for calculating competition results. One of my club colleagues rescued them from a company who'd been throwing them away. They were a vast improvement on the previous system of manually drawing up a spreadsheet on a huge sheet of paper and then working through it all row by column. A big event used to take us well past midnight.
However, because my friend was of German origin the 2 machines inevitably became known as his Enigma machines. They lasted us well for years until computers came along for which he wrote a programme that could do what had probably been an evening's work in about 5 minutes if that.
We still have everything on this list in our house,except the Enigma and the Atari, and it works. Still have one machine that runs floppy disks(yes, 8 inches) and a 386 that runs diskettes, and they all work. We have programming software for old machinery. All the tools, we have, and use!
You have a mimeograph a gyroscope at home?
I have bunches of Floppy's, 8", 5 1/4" and 3 12". If you need some, let me know...
@Baby Catcher...MY CONFUSE?? What "personal computers" used 8" floppies???
Most PC's that I know of used 5-1/4 or the 3-1/2 deals????
@@carch7243 gyroscopes are toys. Have no idea about the mimeo machine??
For my business I had two coin counters and a bill counter. The bill counter and the electronic coin counter are worthless after sitting a few years in storage, due to the drying out of electrolytic capacitors that all electronics have, but the 1920 mechanical counter still runs like a champ. It it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I beaned myself plenty of times with Clackers. They were lethal.
Especially the originals, which were made of glass!.
They exploded occasionally, causing untold amounts of injuries.
@@mayorb3366 That's what I had. I was lucky that I never injured myself with them
Remembered them all .
Hello from Oklahoma. Being 62 I grew up with most of these things. Fun video. Thanks.
Thanks for watching all the way from Oklahoma. đđ
Our house is 100+ years old. It came with a pencil sharpener and a rotary dial phone. Both still work just fine.
I hooked up a rotary phone in my house not long ago. When it rang it scared the bejesus out of me and my cats. I forgot how loud those things were!
@@carch7243 I don't see how a call can be made from them. I didn't think pulse dialing was still supported. All landline phones I know of are VOIP.
Only missed 2! Thank you for these!
2:45 That isn't a jukebox. In fact it only ever exists where a jukebox isn't! The jukebox normally stood somehwere in the bar or diner or whatever, and the object in the photo was installed next to tables so that you could select the songs you wanted.
2:48 It's a long time ago but I'm pretty sure we called it a mincer, not a meat grinder.
3:33 While some people won't have guessed that it was an Enigma machine, there is a clue to the fact that it is German, namely that the "Y" and "Z" keys are swapped, as is the case on all German keyboards.
I remember around 90% of that stuff. Had a lot of the simple games.
And it really wasn't that long ago folks
I could identify most of them except things I had never seen or used like the enigma machine. Even after having it explained, I could never work out how to use a slide rule! Interesting quiz.
I bought my first slide rule when I was about 12. Read the booklet and figured out how to use it. Got several more when I was in college. I remember so vividly in a Physics class the prof told us we HAD to use a slide rule because, "Calculators are so expensive, they will NEVER be available for the common man". (they were about 300 bucks at that time)
Keep in mind.... slide rules built the Norden bomb sights, Atomic , and Hydrogen bombs, and put the first satellites in orbit.
@@rickhibdon11 Good point!
Women still use the enigma machine when communicating with men.
LOL!
Not only do I recognize most of them but still have a few that I use! Of course I'm 73 so I grew up using or being around a great many. Wonderful memories! Thank you!!
Have and use a slide rule. I can still do most calculations faster than other with a calculator! How many out there ever hooked up a morse code machine to their rotary phone? We did this in scouts and "talked" to scouts all over the world for free.