Obsolete Skills
- Dialing a rotary phone
- Putting a needle on a vinyl record
- Changing tracks on an eight-track tape
- Shorthand
- Using a slide rule
- Refilling a fountain pen
- Operating a dictaphone
- Using the eraser ribbon on a typewriter
Never had an eight-track, a dictaphone or learnt shorthand but the others I can do.
Comments
Oh lord!
"Some sliderules are still available in antique shops."
Rather a lot of young people who are mystified by the slide rule, are still available in dole queues. I suspect the slide rules are worth more money.
Posted by: Monty | June 19, 2008 12:28 AM
You can add voting to that list. According to the Torygraph the bill for ratifying the Lisbon Treaty has just passed it's third reading. The Lords have passed it. The bill to ratify will receive Royal Assent by Friday.
Goodbye Britain. Goodbye England
Posted by: Mister Jones | June 19, 2008 5:41 AM
I'm old fashioned enough still to use a fountain pen by preference. Oddly enough there are three others I work with of similar view.
Posted by: Paul | June 20, 2008 8:23 AM