Climbing around the barn the other day, I came upon a few items I now realize are ancient history. The T-square, for instance, was used for paste-ups for pages that would be photocopied for publication. But nowadays, that’s all done in the computer. The circular wheels were actually slide rules we used to calculate proportions when cropping photographs, also for publication – and once again, that’s all done in the computer these days. The metal ruler has special calibrations in picas and points, the measurements traditionally used by printers. You run into point measures now in the font section of your word program. And then there’s the mouse pad. You remember those, back before you switched to laptop?
So I came back into the house and turned on my stereo. You may notice I still play vinyl, which probably deserves a posting of its own. When I was a teen, I dreamed of the day I’d have an entire wall of LPs and the system to play them on. Now I look at this and realize it can essentially fit into my laptop or, uh, an iPod, if I ever go there.
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Oddly enough, my 20-something daughters love vinyl. What a great cache of “antiques!”
Just the tip of the iceberg, too.
I still have my vinyl collection. And my son the engineer in 2006 as a freshman in college was required to take a basic drafting class where pencil paper t square and slide rule was required. Even in his office these are still required tools of the trade.
Oh, so glad to hear it!
No, don’t get rid of stereo system! Vinyl is so in now…doubtful it will ever got our with true fans. I want to get a record player again.
For classical music, it has a much warmer sound, especially in the string section. I think it picks up more of the acoustics of the particular hall as well.
Of course, that has me wondering about other kinds of music, too.
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