YesterTech

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
Rotary phone reminds me of that skit from lethal weapon with chris rock funny as **** seen one never used it

That was too funny

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
Along a similiar line, did anyone here have a party-line on their phone?

We did back in the 1960's, IIRC, out in the country.

We did with my grandparents next door and the old lady down the road. We were just outside city limits.


I learned how to type on a typewriter and had one given to me before I went to college but I got a computer shortly afterwards. I absolutely hated the rotary telephone

[onodera]

Have never used a typewriter: wrote with a pen in school and in the U. We had two maroon ebonite rotary phones at home back in the 80s. Still have them stashed away somewhere, probably.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Dauphin
I blame my slow typing on typewriters. Type too fast and it would jam the keys.

That's also the reason for the Qwerty keyboard. It's specifically designed to slow down the typist to keep the keys from jamming.

[Ben Kenobi]

Hmm, born in 1981.

I was taught typing in school with the electric ones. After that they had keyboards.

Used to always practice when I was at my grandparent's house. I've had to use it when I worked in an office, to type up donor cards and update them. Really old school. I never thought it would come in handy so quickly.

Rotary phones? Used them until I was about 11 or 12. Then we got the touch ones.

[Dauphin]

There is the inherent slow down, but I thought the main benefit being that if keys that are next to each other aren't typed consecutively then the trajectories of the tines are less likely to cross - so even if you typed at the same speed the risk of jamming is significantly less.

My logic being that if the speed of the typist were the main issue you just learn to type slower.

[Q Classic]

I've used both. I'm okay with them, even though I usually don't support antiquated technology, like fax machines.

Seriously, scanning+email beats fax machines, hands down.

[Zkribbler]

We have both in my office. Our printers are significantly better than our fax machines, so we can actually read the documents e-mailed to us.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by LordShiva
I type my Poly posts on typewriter and fax them to India where I pay my relatives low wages to type them out again and post them here.

Yes, it's true, cousin Shiva pays us to do this. We are grateful.

Post of the Year.

[chequita guevara]

I want one of these:

[-Jrabbit]

I remember back in about 5th grade (mid-60s), my class went on a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. One of the "high-tech" hands-on displays was a touch-tone phone next to a rotary model. There was a stopwatch-style clock (analog, of course) so you could time how long it took to dial a call on each. A 7-digit number took about 20+ seconds to dial on a rotary.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
We have both in my office. Our printers are significantly better than our fax machines, so we can actually read the documents e-mailed to us.

Sometimes the point of sending by fax is to be deliberately illegible. Especially if you've faked a signature.

[snoopy369]

Fair enough

I'm not sure I understand why people use fax machines anymore... just use a fax-to-email service, faster and better, if you have to use something fax-like...

[LordShiva]

My fax machine has a rotary dial

[-Jrabbit]

We'll need visual proof of that.