My dictionary app has this for digital clock:
a clock that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
and this for analog clock:
a clock that represents time by the position of hands on a dial.
I agree with these definitions. Digital equaled digits long before it equaled LCD or LED.
“Enter my dungeon of despair!”
From your link:
So yes, the movement is analog, but the time is displayed with numbers, making calling it a digital clock accurate. These were popular before mass-produced microprocessor-controlled clocks with LEDs became affordable.
There were also “digital” watches like this that were popular before LED and LCD digital watches became common.
Exactly this. Homes either had one or two pairs of wires, depending on the construction. At some point, two became standard. But that’s just enough for two phone lines.
When we had the third line put in my childhood home, the phone company ran an extra conduit to my bedroom.
We eventually ended up with four lines in the house.
Perhaps, but maybe not so easy for an eight-year-old?
If you want to get pedantically technical, the oscillator for all timekeeping devices is digital in the sense of generating so many beats per second, whether it’s a mechanical escapement, the 60hz of household current, a quartz crystal, or what have you.
^ We don’t have time for this! 
a clock can have a digital display produced by analog methods.
Right. That’s my argument. The clock is analog (hence analog clock), but the display can still be digital by portraying the digits.
This comment reminded me of when I had just married. Encyclopedias were so expensive and we started to save a little each month to buy a good set for our future children. By the time the first child was about 7, Windows 95 had Encarta.
This comment reminded me of when I had just married. Encyclopedias were so expensive and we started to save a little each month to buy a good set for our future children. By the time the first child was about 7, Windows 95 had Encarta.
Spoofing may be beyond most eight year olds, but the low-skills version is trivially easy.
Did you perhaps mean to say Dagmar (I knew the Dagmar term for those style bumper “guards” way before I heard of the actress).
I’m middle aged, and I’m not sure I have a context for that - OK, like many kids today I just checked Wikipedia on the subject…:smack:
Heh. My first Barbie doll was a Jewel Secrets Skipper. I haven’t thought of that doll in years.
Our paper was delivered by a high school student up until about 3 years ago when they changed from afternoon to morning delivery. The law doesn’t allow the kids to start work before 6 am so they had to drop the newspaper boys and use an adult, who delivers from his van or car now.
So, the kids today would have to be under about 5 around our way to not have seen teenagers on a bike delivering newspapers.
I had a paper route in the late 70s. I loved it.
I never heard of a “Dagmar” bumper guard until I read your post. I knew about Cadillac bumper bullets in the 60s.
You’d get a better idea of it if you checked YouTube on the subject. 
Smoking everywhere!
We smoked in restaurants, bars, the mall food court, at our desks at work, at the movie theater even!
