ShawnG said:I wish we still had those.
If you were mad enough, you could ring the bell inside when you hung up on someone.
Yes, totally!
Can't get that same satisfaction from an iPhone. With a flip-phone, yeah, kinda. But not with an iPhone.
"I'm so mad!"
Presses red button on screen.
In reply to David S. Wallens :
At least with the flip phones you knew you were disconnected. There's something umm career shortening about missing the red button then venting about the idiocy that just came down the line.
You do realize you just poked the bear, right? I work for a 95-year-old theater with a warehouse full of props and antiques.
I could keep this thread going with a new post once a day for about 50 years.
Curtis73 said:You do realize you just poked the bear, right? I work for a 95-year-old theater with a warehouse full of props and antiques.
I could keep this thread going with a new post once a day for about 50 years.
Bring it on.
I work on cars of the same vintage, the boss and I like weird stuff..
I have an old Northern Telecom phone in my shop hooked up to a Bluetooth adapter. Lets me take calls when I have gloves on and makes a proper “ching!” when you hang up.
I'll start with an easy one.
16mm film projector.
Keith Tanner said:I have an old Northern Telecom phone in my shop hooked up to a Bluetooth adapter. Lets me take calls when I have gloves on and makes a proper “ching!” when you hang up.
More info on this?
mtn said:Keith Tanner said:I have an old Northern Telecom phone in my shop hooked up to a Bluetooth adapter. Lets me take calls when I have gloves on and makes a proper “ching!” when you hang up.
More info on this?
It's plugged into a "Cell2Jack". Basically turns the old phone into a Bluetooth handset. Under $25. There are higher end variants but it seems to work well enough for this very simple use case.
Sorry about the threadjack. I'm going to guess that Curtis' thing - if it's not a projector - is a desktop microfilm reader with way too small a screen :) I don't see a lens for projecting.
Curtis73 said:You do realize you just poked the bear, right? I work for a 95-year-old theater with a warehouse full of props and antiques.
I could keep this thread going with a new post once a day for about 50 years.
IT's my thread and I approve of this message
In reply to Curtis73 :
Film viewer.
I couldn't find an exact match on Google, but the arms move out, the film then goes down under the black guide rollers and moves past the magnifying lense.
Apparently they were used for video editing.
daeman said:In reply to Curtis73 :
Film viewer.
I couldn't find an exact match on Google, but the arms move out, the film then goes down under the black guide rollers and moves past the magnifying lense.
Apparently they were used for video editing.
Ding ding. 8mm film editor. You manually spin the reels back and forth and it shows you the frame in the little viewer. Then there is a way to mark it, take it out, cut and splice.
Another easy one:
If that one's easy, we're in for a real challenge when Curtis hits his stride.
Curtis73 said:Another easy one:
Curtis, please! This is a family forum!
Theater, right? Looks like the pins old sailing ships used to tie off sails. Pin an old theater used to tie off stuff.
I kind of tricked you with that one. They were ubiquitous in some executive's office in the 50s, or at a party in 1964 at someone's split level in the valley where guests would bring those green Jello molds with fruit suspended in it.
It's an ice pick. The one side is a sheath and the other side is the handle.
In reply to bobzilla :
Now THAT one is easy.
Crxpilot said:Theater, right? Looks like the pins old sailing ships used to tie off sails. Pin an old theater used to tie off stuff.
Those are called "Fid"s. My time on the CGC Eagle taught me more than I ever wanted to know about sailing square riggers. And the meaning of "getting the fid".
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