How does a hot lather machine work and for what purpose?
It’s a massage unit. The barber slides it over their hand between the coils (which are stretchy springs) and the motor unit and then massages the client’s neck and shoulders.
My bio dad was a barber, some 60+ years ago.
How they work, I don’t know but supposedly hot lather gives a closer shave.
OK. I thought it was a piece from some board game I never played.
(I knew a guy who said, of higher education, “I don’t want to be well-rounded; I want to be a dodecahedron.”)
Just the other day we had someone installing something in my wife’s office, and he was impressed by our large floppy disk case. Then I showed him my DECTape.
Here is a picture of my Grandfather using one.
Do you have any TK50s lying around?
No room in the garage. I could probably get someone at the Computer History Museum to read them. Not that they’d want Ahl’s Star Trek game translated from BASIC to Pascal.
That doesn’t look neither like a hot lather machine nor like a neck massager, but like something for the hair. So what the heck did it do?
It’s a scalp massager, I believe.
What is that thing? Is it… to help hold the phone up with your shoulder?
~Max
You folk must live in warm climes I guess.
Steel rims are very common for mounting winter tires here in Canada. Makes switching easier and saves the alloy rims from road salt.
Punch cards for voting are still around. They work, and it’s expensive to change out your whole system.
Maybe for local elections, but they aren’t permitted for federal elections any more. The expense of changing the whole system has already been paid.
~Max
Yep.
So you could walk around and use both hands while talking on the phone.
Yes, it’s a neck/scalp massager. Believe it or not, they’re still being made.
They had problems…
I once worked for a station where the jocks had to wind new carts on slow production days. I hated it. There was no good reason for it. The station was making money hand over fist. Subsequent employers just bought them pre-wound from Fidelipac or somewhere else.
1996 was hardly a time when the web was mature, especially as far as commerce was concerned.
On top of that, a lot of modern day web technologies weren’t even in existence yet. Stuff as simple as cascading style isheets weren’t introduced until December of that year.
For its era, that Space Jam site was amazing.
Loathing Apple, I have not but it says iPod right on the screen.