The Women’s forum

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

Great one.

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The secret of a long life is you try not to shorten it.
-Nobody

Moon landings
Zip drives
Respect for my elders

But ... the rerelease of Stop Making Sense brought them back together again; no new music, but they're at least on speaking terms, anyway

In that vein you could add Van Halen, The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Police, and many more, I'm sure

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"What's your claim?" - Ben Gravy
"Your best work is the work you're excited about" - Rick Rubin

Hard to believe nowadays, but there was a breakfast chain restaurant called Sambo's that I used to go to as a kid out on the West Coast. Also, remember Howard Johnson's restaurants. Not sure if there are any of those left.

I can remember several 'toys' from the 70s that i had that wouldn't cut it now due to safety concerns...there was the 'strange change machine' where you could compress plastic into a square and upon reheating it would form a dinosaur shape. Got hot as hell and could easily burn yourself. Also, those mix and bake ovens with the light bulb inside to cook the cake or whatever...another burn hazard.

Clackers
Charlie's Angels
School House rock on Saturday Morning.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

My inlaws have old school lawn darts. My kids love them.

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

BlackBerry PDA/Phones
SEGA Video game consoles
iPods

Coming soon to a list near you...

Tesla vehicles

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How does Danny Hart sit down with balls that big?

Tape backup is still a thing. And it's gotten HUGE. 9th generation LTO was released in 2021, the tape's are 12.650mm tall and 1 KM long! Can hold 45TB per tape! https://buy.hpe.com/...ape-drives/p/4150338

That's a long way from the 1951 Remington Rand (Unisys) 224kb 1/2" tape.

(Remington Rand used to be the Remington Typewriter Co until 1927. Before that Remington & Sons sold their typewriter business and name to Standard Typewriter in 1886 when rifle making became too good. Remington Typewriter merged with Rand Kardex in 27 and invented the tape drive to power UNIVAC)

0 for 3. High schools still requires handheld calculators for several tests, as do some of the AP tests.
There are lists of approved calculators (including scientific and graphing variants, e.g. TI-84) that have sufficient capabilities to support the math calculations without online connectivity of extensive programming capability.

The TI-84 helped me get through Stats, you can keep a lot of information on those things.

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TEAM HD
Each day is what you make of it so make it the best day possible.

My wife used to work for Unisys, they are just barely past using tape.

Mp3 players in general
CD players in cars (kind of)


I am too young for anything to have shown up and disappeared in my life time.

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jackmott
Chainpin
JSA

How the heck do these things still cost over $120? You can buy a cheap phone that is 100x more powerful for that kind of money.

I just bought my kid a TI-84 that has Python built in! They could sit in class and program on their calculator. (approved for AP tests and at least the SAT)

Hospital ran a test to replace pagers with phone app and ended up staying with pagers because ER was overwhelming the specialists with unnecessary questions/photos/etc and data showed the app wasn't more efficient.
https://www.listennotes.com/...ill-use--jUouX4rISn/

Faxes, still in use, in certain industries. Not exposed to Virus attacks and provides a hard copy of signature, not dead yet.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

How old are you? 8-track invented in 1953, and evolved throughout the 50's

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

Yeah this list is a hot mess, and depends on how we are defining gone.

Fax-- definetly still around and in use by some industries.
Dollar Coin -- got 50 for my birthday last year.
Calculators -- very much still around in schools and colleges.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

I sold a 30+ year old reverse polish HP 15 for $120 on ebay. It did way less than the Ti 84 but you can't beat it for tedious basic arithmetic.

...and in the chemical industry (or at least my little corner of it). My TI-30Xa gets a fair bit of work.

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"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare" - Juma Ikangaa

http://www.litespeed.com

VHS
Pong

8" floppy disk's (5.25" and 3.5" also)
answering machines
Zip Drive's (and their Click of Death)

Bonus I think we would call it dead??? (Blue Screen of Death)

So many pieces of software.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.

I totally missed that that had gone away. Now did this come and go in just your biological lifetime, or did it come and go in your ST lifetime too?

WHAT the women's Forum is gone?? when did that happen.

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Just Triing
Triathlete since 9:56:39 AM EST Aug 20, 2006.
Be kind English is my 2nd language. My primary language is Dave it's a unique evolution of English.