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TonyDuell · 2nd Jun 2018, 5:38 pm

I also got them all... Heck, I have used some of the items (floppy disk, rotary telephone dial, etc) today, and have several others (fax machines, OHP, etc) here.

And I agree some of the questions were ambiguous. The fax machine shown is clearly also a telephone (why else would it have a handset?). And I once received teletext on a pocket calculator with a home-made interface (!). Incidentally I don't think any sane person would rewind a whole cassette with a pencil, but it was a common trick to use one to turn the spools to tighten or unsnarl the tape. There was a little device with a speed-up gearbox, handle on the input, hexagonal post on the output that you could fit onto a cassette to rewind it by hand, though.

2nd Jun 2018, 5:38 pm	#3
TonyDuell Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Biggin Hill, London, UK. Posts: 5,208	Re: Just for Vintage fun I also got them all... Heck, I have used some of the items (floppy disk, rotary telephone dial, etc) today, and have several others (fax machines, OHP, etc) here. And I agree some of the questions were ambiguous. The fax machine shown is clearly also a telephone (why else would it have a handset?). And I once received teletext on a pocket calculator with a home-made interface (!). Incidentally I don't think any sane person would rewind a whole cassette with a pencil, but it was a common trick to use one to turn the spools to tighten or unsnarl the tape. There was a little device with a speed-up gearbox, handle on the input, hexagonal post on the output that you could fit onto a cassette to rewind it by hand, though.