Ask [email protected] • 4 months ago

What devices or equipment you own or had that doesn't have much use in the modern world anymore?

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What devices or equipment you own or had that doesn't have much use in the modern world anymore?

Ask [email protected] • 4 months ago

When I was a kid my family owned a device whose sole purpose was to rewind vhs tapes.

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Can do more than just multiplication, too.
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  2•4 months ago
  Oh yeah! I have my dad’s old slide rule, looks a lot like that one.
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    2•4 months ago
    Same. Got them from my old retired draft engineer papa.
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  1•4 months ago
  What a beauty

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