What are YOUR obsolete skills?

[asheris]

Someone's started a wiki of obsolete skills. A few of the entries that jumped out at me for whatever reason:

• Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV


• AT commands for dial-up modems (I still remember those... ATDT*70,,,525xxxx [gotta disable call waiting and wait for the tone to return] and ATH0 *hhssssssssssssss*)


• Balancing the tonearm on a turntable


• Changing the ribbon on a typewriter


• Configuring Trumpet Winsock (Back in MY day...)


• Cranking up or down a car-window


• Operate a credit card imprinter (click-clack) (Ah, the thumb-smasher...)


• Filing cards in a library card catalog


• Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set (Well, it IS more of a pain to shuttle through 70+ channels, than it was to go through 5-6.)


• Inserting a game cartridge at just the right angle to make it work


• Knowing what part of town someone lives in by their phone exchange (Er, I still do that...)


• Numbering your punch cards with a pencil, in case you drop your program


• Opening a can of beer or soda with a church key


• Operating an Overhead Projector (I can change bulbs, too.)


• Porn not from the Internet (What? There was pr0n before the internet? Dude!)


• Punching a hole in the shell of a single-sided 5.25" floppy disc to make it double-sided (Oh Lord, I remember doing that...)


• Setting the timer on a VCR


• Operating a Treadle Sewing Machine (I still know how to do that...)


• Winding up loose cassette tape with a pencil eraser before putting the cassette in the deck (Oh how many, many times... and splicing with a tiny bit of cello tape, a vital skill.)