Once indespensable but overtaken by technology....

[iandbeech]

... the type-writer! Anyone still use?

What else can you think of that was once a household/workplace item?

[birdbrain]

I used to be a secretary and I once got a call from an agency asking me to do a temp job for a company using a MANUAL typewriter.

This was in 1996...

[JagLover]

This thread reminds me of 'The secretary'

What happened when you made a typo birdbrain

[birdbrain]

I didn't get spanked by James Spader, that's for sure!

[2 Smokin Barrels]

I used to sit opposite a comptometer operator. This was a monster machine with a zillion keys used for....adding up!

[2 Smokin Barrels]

Telegram?

[C C]

Also there is the short-lived stand-alone word processor.
Do they still make them?

[jacobyte]

I did a banjo recording of "Tiger Rag" on a wax cylinder some years ago. I only ever listened to it twice, and now it's probably melted in a warm cupboard somewhere. Now THERE'S a good reason for introducing solid state technology.

[Fallon]

who remembers those huge BT "Cheetah" telex machines? Two-brown brown things that trapped dust like nothing else!

[BliarOut]

Policemen on the roads

[wiggy001]

BliarOut said:

Policemen on the roads

Genius.























And true, sadly...

[opieoilman]

C C said:

Also there is the short-lived stand-alone word processor. Do they still make them?

WANG.

Still got some of those in my loft.

[birdbrain]

Tape drives for computers...

[sadako]

WANG
CARES

This was their massive poster as seen on approach to waterloo station, was the running joke for years...

[Incorrigible]

The train

Once the only sensible way to get paople and goods from one end of the country to the other, now a waste of space

[C C]

Stick on heated rear screen elements; that didn’t stick on.

[cazzer]

Me.....sadly

[iandbeech]

Just remembered the "Teletyper" that used to be in the background on Grandstand for the football results

"Clak, clak, clacker,clak, clikkety"

Also cassette tapes - remember them!

>> Edited by iandbeech on Thursday 23 December 14:53

[TeamD]

birdbrain said:

Tape drives for computers...

I can tell that you don't work in IT

[birdbrain]

You're right, I don't.

I meant more the cassette tape drives you used to get on home computers.