Time And Memory...

The oldest computer can be traced back to Adam and Eve. It was an Apple.
But with extremely limited memory, just one byte.
Then everything crashed.

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How many can say this...

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Okay - so how many know what this is? Can have two uses - but what was its original use?
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Couldn't agree with you more. However, at one of the university's Law Library, there are some very old and/or special references which uses the old system - mainly because the hardcopies are so delicate or not uploaded to computer and/or must be read at the library within a certain time before being handed back to the Librarian.

 

Washboard?
I you're old enough to remember that... I feel like a youngster!

 

G'day youngun'
p.s. ain't you ever seen old Western eras using this type of washboard to scrub their clothes

 

Only in movies.

My mom used a washing machine with one of these attached to the top rear of the machine.

Amazingly, they're still available.

 

I've seen those washboards at some camping sites where there aren't facilities - just a running stream - so those boards are quite effective for a good scrub of grubby clothes when out bush.

As a kid when we used to rent, I remember our old landlady had one of those in the laundry - which mum never used.

We had one of those old Pope wringer washers, looked sosmething like this - and I can't tell you the number of times one of my arms would end up tangled in the wringer when feeding through bed sheets - screams would bring one of my parents scampering to rescue me - so finally I was no longer allowed to use the wringer:

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That old wringer washer lasted well into my teens too! Couldn't kill the bloody thing with a double barrel shotgun!

 

To go offtopic, to LauraR, what is happening with " Revo Uninstaller Support" That person seems to be online 24/7 or they're dead, or they've lapsed into unconsciousness and can't log off. Please find an answer. Thx.

 

He's probably on hourly pay !!!!

 

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Besides as a matter of caring for the books - I believe it's mainly to keep theft down given the tight reign of having staff hand books over the counter and receiving them back while managing the loaning...ironic?

 

If they were scanned to PDF, you can use OCR to make them searchable.

 

And how many here remember party lines? When phone numbers started with 2 letters. As in FU=Fulton=38, GA=Garden=42

When we bought our house from an older couple. It had a wringer washer like that in the basement.

And years ago my father brought home a wire recorder.

 

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Totally agree!

"New" records if properly scanned from hard to softcopy or softcopy loaded are great for searching - easy peasy.

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Old hardcopy records or those "older paper scanned record" like you say can be a proper nightmare if not scanned properly, proving totally useless...discovered the "Hyde" side of myself with these type of encounters...​

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Oh Lordy! Party lines! Remember those...actually on occasion ended up on a date after a good chat

Must've been a pretty old couple

Now I'm stumped. What's a "wire recorder"? Is that two cans with a string attached in between?

 

Ye of little faith on old things. This is along the lines what dad brought home.

 

What can I say...dunno what it is...​

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Okay looks like a voice recorder - but doesn't produce anything visual? Looks 1940's-1950's era?

 

Correct.
Interesting article.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/wire-recording-forgotten-audio-format/

 

Any one know what this is teehee.

 

I am into older tech so i know what a wire recorder is.

 

Thanks for that article!

 

Manual lawn mower! (heh!heh!)

Have to push the handle backwards and forwards to mow the lawn. Man, that's really old "technology"!