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Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
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Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross The elementary school cycling test?
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Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross my mum had a reel to reel recorder from her brother, he imported it from the US, Realistic brand.
I wrote letters to my cousins in the GDR and was told to draw little parallel lines on the envelope seal so the recipient could check if the Stasi had opened the letter. -
Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross Mechanical typewriter!
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Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross I can drive a manual transmission.
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Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross Did you have a circular disc of offcuts of leftover fabrics secured with a button in the middle and kept in your pencil case to clean the business end of a fountain pen that might have leaked?
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@cstross my mum had a reel to reel recorder from her brother, he imported it from the US, Realistic brand.
I wrote letters to my cousins in the GDR and was told to draw little parallel lines on the envelope seal so the recipient could check if the Stasi had opened the letter. -
Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross
Dad sometimes brought 2 boxes of punch cards home and worked late at night. -
@cstross I can drive a manual transmission.
@jmax When I learned to drive, you learned to drive on a manual transmission because if you learned on an automatic you were only licensed for automatics, and at the time that meant only about 4% of the cars in the UK. (Automatic transmission cars cost about 20% more and burned 10% more fuel.)
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@cstross Did you have a circular disc of offcuts of leftover fabrics secured with a button in the middle and kept in your pencil case to clean the business end of a fountain pen that might have leaked?
@christineburns No, I just put up with the leakage.
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Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross using a slide rule in Maths at high school
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Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross You're 105 years old
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@Steveg58 Yes, my older sister owned a Morris Minor for a few years. No synchromesh on first and second gears so you had to double-declutch every time or (DEAFENING SHRIEK OF TEARING METAL AS GEARS FAIL TO MESH)
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Age verification challenge:
Growing up, I used a gramophone to play my mum's 78rpm jazz records (on shellac, not vinyl). And was taught to indicate I was about to make a turn by sticking my arm out the driver's side window on vehicles that didn't have indicators. (It was on the driving test back then.)
@cstross
It still is on the driving test. Any vehicle fitted with indicators can become indicator-free with one loose wire or a blown fuse. Amazingly, they don't stop running if this happens, maybe to avoid causing other crashes. -
@cstross using a slide rule in Maths at high school
@lizmeyer Yep, calculators weren't permitted in maths exams until I was 15, and we had to learn to use a slide rule. (I was right on the cusp of the transition—got my first basic four-function calculator aged 13, and I'd already learned how to do the operations longhand, so it was a time-saver, not a replacement for learning.)
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@cstross You're 105 years old
@rafa_font No, but a few months ago my wife and I should have celebrated our joint 120th.
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@lizmeyer Yep, calculators weren't permitted in maths exams until I was 15, and we had to learn to use a slide rule. (I was right on the cusp of the transition—got my first basic four-function calculator aged 13, and I'd already learned how to do the operations longhand, so it was a time-saver, not a replacement for learning.)
@cstross you are but a child! My first calculator was long after high school.
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@pheedbackPhil @Steveg58 There were no buttons on phones when I grew up. Just rotary dialers talking to Strowger electromechanical exchanges at the Post Office. (Motors and relays!)
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