Can you name things that youngsters of today won't know?

[Oldfentiger]

Vacuum powered windscreen wipers.
They stopped when you went uphill, and went crazy when you went down the other side.

 

[Tim Hall]

Bottom bell trousers.

You and your continental word order.


(Edit: That wasn't meant to mock, it was just a gentle jest.)

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Using a BIC biro to rewind a cassette.

 

[MichaelW2]

Using a BIC biro to rewind a cassette.

A cassette.

Also 51/2" floppy discs
3" floppy discs
8 track cassettes
Reel to reel audio tape
Punched paper tape (I have actually used it)
Football results by teletype on a Saturday evening.

 

[Dirk]

Open wire telephone lines.
I went on the last ever course that BT ran for installation and maintenance of open wire systems in 1973. Scary stuff when you were tensioning the wire and one broke!
Last one I worked on was up an old 60 foot pole in Lapworth, overlooking the canal; about a 70 foot drop to the towpath!

 

[GM]

Brace and bit.

Slot headed screws.

Round pin plugs.

Glue kettle.

Draw knife, router plane, spokeshave.......

....Water level

Rawl plug tool

715 Tax Certificate

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Also 51/2" floppy discs
3" floppy discs

What about 8" floppies as used on an IBM 3090

 

[Profpointy]

What about 8" floppies as used on an IBM 3090

What about 12" hard drivers. 1MB fixed plus 1MB removable. The 6 platter 12" removable hard drives were a whopping 32MB I seem to recall

 

[Markymark]

iPhones 1-8

 

[MichaelW2]

What about 12" hard drivers. 1MB fixed plus 1MB removable. The 6 platter 12" removable hard drives were a whopping 32MB I seem to recall

I don't think many people of any generation would recognize those industrial fridge-sized storage units. Were they the ones that could be made to walk by artful stop-starting of the disk rotation?

 

[classic33]

A cassette.

Also 51/2" floppy discs
3" floppy discs
8 track cassettes
Reel to reel audio tape
Punched paper tape (I have actually used it)
Football results by teletype on a Saturday evening.

8 Inch floppies
Still got the drives for all three, installed.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Microfiche.

 

[swee'pea99]

What about 12" hard drivers. 1MB fixed plus 1MB removable. The 6 platter 12" removable hard drives were a whopping 32MB I seem to recall

32? Blimey!

 

[Nigel-YZ1]

Travelling along a road without having your eyes scorched by LED, HID and xenon lights.

 

[Proto]

Telex machine

Flexowriter