telephone answering machines… I remember that if I was away from home, I could call home, wait for the machine to pick up, and then enter a code to hear my messages.
But my memory is getting fuzzy. I have a competing memory, with a different story, accoding to which I’d enter the code on the second ring, before the machine answered.
Do either of the above sound familiar to anyone?
I remember on mine I had to hit the * key while the outgoing message was playing, then it would stop the message and ask for my code. If correct, then it would play back the messages. That was a digital one. I can’t remember what the even older tape one did, but there was a way to get messages remotely.
The Johnson Smith catalog
Did she make it from marshmallow fluff and chocolate chips?
“Thanks for telling me that. I think it’s a good idea. You should tell more people and find out what they think about it.”
Back when people told and thought, not shared and felt!
I always had to wait for the machine to answer to put in my code. On at least one machine, I could hit a button to interrupt the outgoing message.
“It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your children are?”
If you don’t, they could end up on a milk carton.
I don’t think anyone under the age of 30 would know what a disc preener was.
I’m over 65 and never heard the term before. So I googled it. If any of my records was dusty, we’d blow on it or use a tissue. I can see how a true audiophile would avoid scratching their records in such a manner, but no one I knew was on that level.
Really? Every dorm room when I was in college had one.
We had a disc preener when I was a kid, but I never realized they had a name.
Yup. Had a special fluid to put on them too. I had many over the years
You could buy them at headshops, next to the Ozium. Another archaic term, I suppose.
Since I didn’t know what it was, I googled it. And all of the results referred to a " Parostatik Disc Preener". I’m certain I had such a device- but as “disc preener” was completely unfamiliar to me and a more general search for “antistatic record cleaner” brought up different results, I suspect “disc preener” was specific to one brand.
I still have a Discwasher record cleaner, that came with a little bottle of Discwasher fluid. Haven’t used it in decades.
Discwasher, that’s what I had too. Couldn’t remember the name.
What about an 8-track head cleaner? How was that supposed to work?
Slide rules are for cavemen. People in the atomic age use a Curta.