What Obsolete Skills Do You Have?

[Megotastrophe]

I was washing dishes as a teen in the lowest greasy spoon diner you can imagine. Like a real life Mel’s Diner but nowhere near as clean. We had a wall phone with a rotary dial and the dial had a lock on it. You couldn’t dial out. But if you tapped the switch hooks holding the receiver, you could dial anywhere. Like tap it seven times for a 7 and so forth. Zero was ten. It worked and it drove the old lady owner crazy when people would dial long distance when nobody had a key. Not a skill you need anymore. I wonder if it still works

[B-Lister]

I can code in BASIC

[Megotastrophe]

I remember learning AppleSoft for the AppleII+

[drquest]

Oh this is just going to be a sad thread....

Any of you need any help with an IBM AS/400 Mainframe system, just let me know...

Are you setting up a state of the art corporate office and require a T1 or ISDN connected to your token ring network, give me a call!

Or if you need help with some OG pencil on paper drafting/design done, I'm your guy.

[Megotastrophe]

In the fifth grade we spent a week learning how to use a slide rule. We were told it would really come in handy. It hasn’t yet.

[rche]

splicing multitrack audio tape

[publiusr]

I had a sweet touch with the vertical hold.
I tried to fix my telescope that way—but it was just Starlinks

[LardLad]

Assembly language for the 6502 microprocessor...

[Megotastrophe]

I used to be able to tune the UHF dial, the soft dial that didn’t click like the VHF dial, like nobody’s business when I was six. This was important since channel 39 was where Star Trek lived.

[knight errant00]

I still drive a stick shift. Almost an anti-theft device, these days.

[LonnieFisher]

Splicing film and threading a projector. Movies are digital now.

[jwyblejr]

Haven't used it since 6th grade but shorthand. Not sure if it's still used or not.

[LonnieFisher]

I can write cursive. They don't even teach kids how to do that anymore.

[Hector]

I can burp with my mouth close.

[monitor_ep]

In High School I learned to develop and print my own camera film. I was part of the yearbook and newspaper staff back then and we had our own room just for this purpose. Back then there wasn't even an adult to supervise us.

(not me)
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