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@zanadoo_56 wrote:

28. You talk to colleagues who are so young they don’t know what an Opal Fruit is  I talk to young colleagues who don't know what a typewriter is, or what it's like to drink out of the garden hose!

 

I thought it was difficult having to explain what a 78 record was.....until I realised the young work colleague I was talking to had no idea what a Single or LP vinyl record was.  I thought she was joking....but no.

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I still have all my old 33's and 45's. I did learn though, hooking up the record player through modern day equipment is not a good idea. It brings out every single crackle. I still have a lot of my cassette tapes too, although have nothing to play them on.

When my step kids were young (27 and 24 now), they came here to visit for a couple of weeks when they were about 11 and 8. We were down the street and walked past the op shop. We stopped to have a look through the window and step son (the now 27yo) pointed and asked "what's that?". I said it was a typewriter. "What's a typewriter?". Before computers you'd type up documents and letters on them. "Where's the screen and mouse?". I rolled my eyes.

It doesn't seem that long ago where I was the baby at work. Now, at least half of them, I'm older than their parents!

i see target has LP records for sale, and players.

the youngsters think its new technology i guess, so gotta have it.

me, i say good riddence to records getting scratched or warped. i'm so happy all my musics on cd, converted to mp3, saved to 3 hard drives.

allways plays perfect, easy to find any song quickly.

thanks to the world wide web i have pretty much every song i have ever wanted. no need to be looking through thousands of records in every record shop in the state. how many hours did i spend standing in front of racks fingering thru records looking for 1 song?

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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

I still have all my old 33's and 45's. I did learn though, hooking up the record player through modern day equipment is not a good idea. It brings out every single crackle. I still have a lot of my cassette tapes too, although have nothing to play them on.

When my step kids were young (27 and 24 now), they came here to visit for a couple of weeks when they were about 11 and 8. We were down the street and walked past the op shop. We stopped to have a look through the window and step son (the now 27yo) pointed and asked "what's that?". I said it was a typewriter. "What's a typewriter?". Before computers you'd type up documents and letters on them. "Where's the screen and mouse?". I rolled my eyes.

It doesn't seem that long ago where I was the baby at work. Now, at least half of them, I'm older than their parents!

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I still have all my records - 331/3s, 45s....and ten 78s. Every last one of them!  I have all my old cassettes too.  Unfortunately my record player is on its last legs.  The CD component doesn't work,and the turntable (which doesn't play the 78s) is tempermental but at least the double cassette player works.  I have a new stereo in mind - nothing too expensive but it got good reviews - and it will play the 78s as well.  Only problem is it's currently out of stock at the moment.  I could get the old turntable fixed but apparently no one repairs the CD players in these type of multi units.

I am still buying vinyl occasionally - fairly obscure records I know will never be released on CD.  I love the depth of sound from vinyl records, crackles notwithstanding. 🙂  I have a list of 'Wants' I'm gradually working my way through.

Ah typewriters....  Back in the days when they were standard office equipment so few office workers actually knew how to type...which was why they had typing pools.  Now every desk has a computer and everyone has to type...even the boss.

Know how you feel...I'm probably the oldest employee where I work.  Sigh.

When I went to Business College we learned to type on a manual typewriter and right at the end of the year we were given one or two lessons on the new fangled electric typewriters in case we went to work for a very progressive boss who actually had one in his office.

There were only a couple of electric typewriters in the whole school and a couple of hundred girls to have a turn.

In my first job we did not have an electric typewriter but when I went to my second job the invoice typist had one but she had no idea how to use it and spent most of her time in tears of frustration.  I ended up swapping typewriters with her...she was happy, I wasn't.

Pittmans Shorthand writing.

When I make short notes today, my great-grandchildren ask; why are you scribbling Nan? They may think I have gone gaga.

Erica

*Groan*....Pitmans shorthand was my downfall.  I passed with the bare minimum speed but I must have learned well because I still remember it.  I use it when I don't want anyone else to know what I am writing or for shopping lists.

I loved Pitman's shorthand.   I got a certificate for 120 words per minute!

Doubt if I could remember most of it today.  

Some of it has stayed,  but not the speed

Ah typewriters....  Back in the days when they were standard office equipment so few office workers actually knew how to type...which was why they had typing pools.  Now every desk has a computer and everyone has to type...even the boss.

and yet how often do you see people in business doing the 2 finger typing?

also its a skill hardly ever mentioned in things unemployed should know to help get a job. never heard of typing courses for the unemployed.

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@davidc4430 wrote:

Ah typewriters....  Back in the days when they were standard office equipment so few office workers actually knew how to type...which was why they had typing pools.  Now every desk has a computer and everyone has to type...even the boss.

 

and yet how often do you see people in business doing the 2 finger typing?

 

also its a skill hardly ever mentioned in things unemployed should know to help get a job. never heard of typing courses for the unemployed.

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My mother was a secretary - shorthand, typing...the whole shebang.  She did not want me to be a 'mere secretary' (her words) so I chose something else.  But in the end my job was axed and ironically I ended up in admin.  I had the opportunity to learn to type so I took it, and I learned to use computers too.  But I'm not a secretary like my mother - I never learned shorthand and compared to her I type too slowly - but it turned out I did have an affinity with using computers.  Not something I ever imagined in my school days!

I think anyone using computers should learn to type.  You don't need to break the kind of typing speed records common in my mother's day, but it's not hard to learn the basics enough to use more than 2 fingers. 🙂

It was best to be an accurate typist back then.  What a nuisance it was to erase errors.  With the blue, pink, yellow, green and white Bank paper carbon copies all having to be mistake free.

And the "boss" sends back your beautifully presented document to the typing pool because one wrong five-letter word is be erased and replaced with a six-letter one......half spaces.

DEB