Just had a chat with a colleague about things that have disappeared / almost disappeared over very recent years -
Remember carbon paper ?
I remember writing a letter out long hand - sending it to the typing pool - receiving letter back - correcting typing errors - sending back to typing pool .
Oh how technology have come on a pace in a very short while .
Handwritten prescriptions (in indesipherable writing) from the doctor.
The computer dial-up sound
Cinema style film screens in aeroplanes
Typewriter rubbers
Ah yes I remember carbon paper well and those stencil machines were we'd run off loads of copies of typed accounts turning the machine by hand ! Sitting for ages taking page after age of shorthand and sometimes struggling to read it all back, thank God when dictaphone machines came in. Oh and the old manual typewriters. Happy days !
When I started work in 1968 we only had a mechanical adding machine, at least it was better than Log tables.
Slide rule , remember them?
Wind up watches and clocks.