Things we used to do

[Salar]

Still got my flexicurve, but it's orange.

That would be a Jakar then (thanks google)

 

[colly]

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/the-nostalgia-thread.118046/post-2167330

 

[Illaveago]

If you had an old motorcycle you would kick the engine over with the clutch held in to free the clutch before you tried starting it.

 

[midlife]

Imps that came in a little metal box

Shaun

 

[midlife]

Ah... Good old TD and those isometric projections.....

Shaun

 

[Profpointy]

[QUOTE 4161953, member: 259"]We used to stab each other in the legs with them in geography and TD.[/QUOTE]

Maybe with the old brass ones which you screwed a pencil into but
not with the pukka ones that came in sets in velvet lined cases.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Made you feel like a part of something important.

 

[Oldbloke]

Having to buy a fountain pen for school, the one with a syringe type filler was a must have at one time.

It was hugely amusing to flick your pen at the teacher's back while he/she was writing on the blackboard. That is, until the day they turned round,mid flick.

What little b'stards we were...

 

[Illaveago]

Globules! Chewed up paper. A boy in our class used to make them in the history lesson an then click them at a large Atlas mounted on the wall whilst the teacher wasn't looking. My friend and I would then scour the map looking for where it had landed. We would burst out into stifled laughter when we found a new mountain range had been added to the Himalayas.

 

[Salar]

Still got my flexicurve, but it's orange.

Mind you these days I also own an A0 parallel motion drawing board with a built in fluorescent tube (ex BT) and an A0 plan chest (also ex BT) Maz worked in 'Network Records' and when they moved offices, and went digital, they were having to pay to have all the 'drawing office' kit removed (not allowed to sell it due to H&S issues, it had to be disposed of) so if anyone wanted to take stuff they could help themselves (again not allowed to sell it)
Very useful for designing furniture installations and I've also used it to plot out the garden (to scale) for the new flagstones and drew up plans to build my 'logstore'.
The plan chest is also just the right height to sit my 2 B&W enlargers on the top for my photographic hobby.

I still occasionally use an A1 board these days, but most of my design work and calculations are computer orientated.

I too wish I'd grabbed stuff pre computer era.

Different times then, remember ammonia wet printers, have a sniff of the bottle and your hangover is gone.

Interesting you do B&W, me too, love my film cameras.

Perhaps a film camera analogue thread beckons.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Type text messages by pressing a number key as many times as needed to get the letter you want.

 

[Gravity Aided]

Type text messages by pressing a number key as many times as needed to get the letter you want.

Like honing a message from raw electrons.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Spin a C90 cassette around on the edge of a biro so it didn't waste your Walkman batteries. Can do that with an iPod.

 

[PaulSecteur]

Rent video games cartridges for an Atari 2600 (with wooden finish, not the new-fangled all plastic ones) from the video rental shop.

Pitfall, river raid or Daley Thompson Decathlon...

 

[PaulSecteur]

Have hand me down clothes that were already worn out, then be told off for making them scruffy.