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14th Mar 2014, 1:29 pm | #141 |
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Knowing the difference between a needle and a stylus.
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In fact I'm sure we also learned how to write with a dip pen because I can remember using the inkwells in our desks! Now I am feeling old
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14th Mar 2014, 2:31 pm | #143 |
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When at Uni in the early Eighties the computing lecturer posed this problem: Suppose you have a collection of, say, fifty LPs. You want a database to detail them in alphabetical order, but you will be adding new tiltles and giving away some you don't listen to any more, so the number is always varying, as is the place of each in the list. What is the best solution? Some very eleborate databases were created, but the one earning most marks was - a card index file! Moral: the best solution is not alwas the most 'cutting edge'. Glyn |
14th Mar 2014, 2:39 pm | #144 |
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My telephone book is often laughed at - until I point out that I could drop mine in the washing up bowl and I could very probably still read it. Can't say the same for those expensive little bricks people carry now.
While we're at it: loading a matchlock musket Knapping a flint. There must be so many skills that have come and gone. It would be interesting to identify the new skills that are coming to the fore in the current age. Now let me see... er.. Umm |
14th Mar 2014, 2:58 pm | #145 |
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Here's an obscure one.
lapping recorder heads.I have just been having an interesting conversation today with a up specialist. re lapping the heads on a 3M M79 multitrack recorder. They do have a specialist but when he retires, they don't.Several major record companies have been in conversation with this gentleman suggesting he train replacement asap!! Gill |
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14th Mar 2014, 5:22 pm | #148 |
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Drinking a load of beer and just being happy, and having enough money left for a cab home too.
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14th Mar 2014, 5:27 pm | #149 |
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A few more:
Sexing day-old chicks [you don't want to raise too many cockerels] "Wiping" the soldered joints on lead pipes with a moleskin. Glassblowing (I spent a week in my first term at college learning how to make bits of glass scientific apparatus. I was utterly useless at it!) Being able to whistle 1750Hz with sufficient accuracy to open the local 2-metre repeater. |
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I learned to "wipe" lead pipe joints, courtesy of a relative who was a plumber.
I can still manage many of the other "lost skills" as I suspect, can many members here. But, when our generation has gone... |
14th Mar 2014, 7:20 pm | #151 |
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Wiped joint..........tick!
Never knapped a flint. (finding stone-age tinfoil, probably Aluminium, is impressive ) 1750Hz.................tick! Never had to lap a tape head General blacksmithing. Horsemanship. I've got a reasonable collection of old skills. But when our generation has gone... As someone else's dot sig file says "If we aren't going to make anything, then what are we going to do?" If everything is to be made in China we lose all the skills for even the modern stuff, and then it becomes China's problem too, if no one else makes any money to buy their things with. I once wondered about this in the 1980s, about Japan. But the answer was that Japan changed. China is bigger and harder to change. David
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Making thermionic valves!
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Imagine the fate of someone in a 16th-century world with a working battery/shake-to-power-it flashlight. Or a flint-and-liquid-gas-fuelled cigarrete-lighter of the kind you get for 10p on any current-era market-stall. |
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14th Mar 2014, 8:16 pm | #154 |
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Talking of setting - type face, not that I ever knew how to do that
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14th Mar 2014, 8:19 pm | #155 |
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14th Mar 2014, 8:21 pm | #156 |
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Washing clothes in a dolly tub.
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14th Mar 2014, 8:26 pm | #157 |
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14th Mar 2014, 10:28 pm | #158 |
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I'm hoping to learn some glass & vacuum skills as soon as I have the time and place to do so.
Regarding China, it will change as fast or faster than Japan. |
14th Mar 2014, 11:11 pm | #159 |
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Fitting a new leather pump washer and lighting a paraffin blowlamp, as I've just done this evening.
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Tapping a new thread. Putting new bearings in a Hoover motor.
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