What Things That We Used To Have In The Past Have Gone Completely

[gollob]

like Telegrams, VHS systems and Betamax Blockbuster shops , Dewhurst Butchers who had over 1000 shops at one time.
Then in today's world what will disappear in the next decade like M & S Debenhams , Fenwick etc

[Buenchico]

Punched tape in those days, Bhg481? I'm surprised because that's what we moved onto, after punched cards. in the early 1970s.

I'd type out my program onto tape and then have to wait until 7pm. That's because we could only use the Polytechnic's computer at off-peak times. I'd then have to phone the Poly and, if someone answered (which was far from being a certainty), persuade them to put their telephone handset into the special holder at their end, switching on the computer's input system as they did so. I'd then put my handset into the holder at my end of the line and run the tape.

[Cloverjo]

Dog licence

[Cloverjo]

Black and white tellies

[Buenchico]

>>> Are there any shops that still sell typewriter ribbons or record player styluses (styli?)?

Cloverjo seems not to have noticed the recent resurgence in vinyl, with some artists only releasing certain albums on vinyl discs. It's not just a specialist thing. Even the big supermarkets, such as Asda, sell vinyl records nowadays.

Ryman still sells typewriter ribbons:
https://www.ryman.co.uk/pelikan-typewriter-ribbon-1001fn

[hc4361]

In the 80s I had a camera that held the negatives on a disk, not a roll.
I think I was the only person that bought a VHS recorder that was programmed using a hand held bar scanner.
Does anyone still use a Filofax?

[Cloverjo]

Thanks, Buenchico. I noticed the resurgence of vinyl records but hadn’t seen styluses being on sale.

Good to know about typewriter ribbons. Someone was asking me recently where he could get one.

[bhg481]

I thought punched tape was replaced with punched cards - tape is very fragile and not easy to edit; punched cards are much more robust (unless you drop the deck) and much easier to change a single line. When I changed jobs in 1968 I moved from paper tape to punched cards on both the computers we had (Atlas II and IBM Stretch). Punched cards lasted for many years, certainly into the 80s, although I moved on to electronic input before then with a home-grown file server system. I still have some punch cards - ideal for shopping lists etc as they fit nicely into a pocket.

[jno]

oh I don't know, shoota, I still go out on the heath of a moonless night with my trusty flintlock. Accurate up to 6 feet or more

[Buenchico]

>>> I still go out on the heath of a moonless night with my trusty flintlock

I'm hoping that's not a euphemism for something unsavoury, Jno ;-)

[Canary42]

///Punched tape in those days, Bhg481?///

I was using punched tape in mid-Sixties.

[shoota]

Do you get many to stand and deliver jno?

[jno]

only mass murder of the rich, Buenchico. I'm pleased to see that's still as popular as ever.

[jno]

if you want delivery these days you have to use Amazon, shoota

[shoota]

Or Tinder....

[Hopkirk]

Radio Rentals

[shoota]

Rhyming slang?

[shoota]

Radio rentals are all in politics these days...

[gollob]

Why did they ever stop corporal punishment

[Cloverjo]

I used to rent a washing machine and a telly. Who does that nowadays?

[Peter Pedant]

// Rhyming slang?//
nope alive and well on certain threads

you might have missed 3T's efforts
but.... you havent missed much

bofe punched cards and punched tapes were used in arlington and bletchley park 1943-5

and punched cards were used in hollerith machines ( who I thought held the patent) in the 1890s - clearly not for programming - but in the days when computers were people who did the tabulation, and not thangs