On 6/26/2011 7:42 AM, Dean Hoffman wrote:
On 6/26/11 7:25 AM, dpb wrote:
harry wrote:

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None of the above mentioned devices rely on accurate frequency
control.


Well, my turntable does...

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I wonder how many people under 30 know what a turntable is. Spinning
records? Etc.
I was wandering around a museum a few years ago. Some teenagers were
there on a school tour. One asked me what time it was. I said "It's
about a quarter past eleven." That didn't register with her. She
apparently had no idea what that meant. 11:15 made sense to her though.

About 10 years ago, I was at a bowling alley when a little kid about 8-9
years old came up to the counter and asked the clerk if he could use the
phone to call home. The clerk reached under the counter, pulled out an
old Western Electric rotary dial desk phone and the kid was completely
dumbfounded. The kid had no idea how to operate the old telephone. ^_^

TDD