Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for October 03, 2015

Of COURSE that didn’t work. The old technology is all on strike, sillies.

Don’t pick up that “curvy shaped thing” and keep it waiting too long. It will suddenly have an angry tone….

The sad thing is – this is quite true, even if not an exact depiction. With new technology there is a risc of losing old useful technology – fx. how to craft things with our own hands as we get tools to do it for us (since we don´t think for ourselves).

But think of the things MY generation doesn’t know—(Born in 61) Slide Rulers, Butter Churns, Buggy Whips, Smithing,

My abacus works better. I taught all my kids and grandkids to do math on an abacus before they started school. It is an excellent way to understand how numbers works when you actually have to move the little beads around like that. You never get that knowledge just memorizing tables o pushing buttons on a calculator. (And yes, I have a slide rule also.)

Sorry, no Siri.

I remember my older brother (who was in high school) telling me I was going to have to learn how to use a slide rule. By the time I got there, calculators were affordable. I never had to touch a slide rule.

Hey, don’t pick on slide rules! They are merely a mechanical application of logarithms. I still have mine, and use it about as often as I use a calculator. I still laugh when I think about the time I went to an accounting exam, and calculators were permitted (late 70’s). The material was easy, and I was bored, so for grins, though I had a calculator, I took my trusty slide rule instead. In the middle of the exam, to solve a problem, I pulled it out, and the guy next to me slid his calculator towards me so I could use it. I slid it back, and continued with the slide rule. I showed my sons how to use it, and explained the principles that they work by, but sadly, they weren’t interested.

When my grandson was 5, I showed him a YouTube video of someone using an old rotary phone. He thought it was hysterical.

My mother put my slide rule in the attic when I went into service. When I found it the heat had warped it. It was a speed rule too. You got the answer with one less slide, LOL!

Hello, Computer? (Scotty, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

I am that rare antique who still uses a landline (but not a rotary phone.) Living in hurricane alley, I’ve found that landlines still work when cell towers are down. I’ve also discovered that my security system (through a landline) doesn’t keep sending false alarms the way my neighbor’s wireless system does, each time a plane passing nearby contacts the airport tower…

Try Cortana…

That’s a model 500 desk set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_500_telephone

Maybe they would recognize a Princess phone. Although I doubt it. I remember getting one in ’70, for about .50 a month more. You had to rent phones then. And then they came out with push buttons!

Ha, them kids ’n their new fangled contraptions. I have an old (ancient?) telephone magneto on my desk at work that I use to shock unsuspecting new employees. No one knows what it is when they first see it.

They DID have voice operated phones long ago. It would say “Number, please” to tell you that it was ready to listen to your instructions; after you spoke, it would connect you to to the other party.

Cute strip. I love it!