Well, she may have heard a perking coffee pot at camp, and an old school manual typewriter on an old TV show or movie. But for the most part, the rest seem pretty unlikely.
But I remember every single one. And, honestly, I don't miss not hearing any of them. In every case, things are a lot better today.
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I remember all of them as well. And I agree that the technological changes that have made these obsolete do, on the whole, make things better.
I found the banned music list more interesting:
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106406
I mean, I could understand Lola being questioned based on Lola being a transvestite given the times, but Splish Splash? Walk Like an Egyptian? And on the latter, how recent it was?
Funny stuff.
Never had to run a cash register, hated trying to type on old manuals, because my fingers kept slipping in between the keys (it gave me cause to love Selectrics, and to appreciate a low-profile keyboard), and I was never given a chance to learn to use AV equipment–and not just because I was a girl, either.
Ddin’t have many broken records, but one of the phonographs I had often didn’t keep up the RPM, and it got so I could tell by pitch if it was off 1-3 revs.
Some of the tales there are, indeed, goofy.
And don’t forget the ka-chunk of the slide projector or the whirrish of a Polaroid camera. We still have a percolator, a movie projector (and film), Polaroid camera and just gave the manual typewriter (portable!) to the grandson (age 11) – who had never seen any kind of typewriter.