Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 6 months ago

What devices or equipment you own or had that doesn't have much use in the modern world anymore?

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What devices or equipment you own or had that doesn't have much use in the modern world anymore?

Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 6 months ago

When I was a kid my family owned a device whose sole purpose was to rewind vhs tapes.

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2•6 months ago
Oh yeah! I have my dad’s old slide rule, looks a lot like that one.
- @theherk@lemmy.world
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  2•6 months ago
  Same. Got them from my old retired draft engineer papa.

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