Same. But I never recorded music to CD either.
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I’m 0 and then some for having not only rented from Blockbuster but also having worked at Blockbuster.
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I would have been at Zero except who records from radio to anything? Mostly you don’t know what’s going to be on the radio. Recorded to cassette – sure, but never from the radio.
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I have recorded from the radio. There was a local “oldies” radio show that aired live on Saturday mornings in the late 1970’s. At the time, oldies meant songs from the 1950’s-60’s. This was before you could find compilations of these classics almost anywhere. I recorded several of the shows and listened to them later again and again.
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I worked at a Pre-Blockbuster store, when most people had to rent the video machine as well as the movies.
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We worked where they had state of the art NCR Crank registers.
You took a test to see if you knew …
- If the customer has two items and the price is 3 for $1.00, how much do you ring up on the register?
- If the price of bananas is 4lbs for $1.00 and the scale reads 1/3 pound, how much do you ring up on the register?
- Can you tell the difference between a Granny Smith and a Washington Delicious?
There were no hand held calculators and you had to do the math in your head.
We think we saw more people learn math to get a checker’s job than we saw learn math to graduate high school.
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At the bookstore I work at, we still use an old hand ka-ching machine. All it does is add things up for a total at the end of the day. If a customer wants a receipt, we use the new fangled adding machine next to it.
I shudder to think how many folks today would not even know where to start on the banana problem. I certainly could not do it in my head, but with a pencil and paper I’d get there eventually 
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Weirdly I think the only one I can’t claim doing is using a typewriter (though I may have played with one of mom’s as a child, dunno).
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Well, we do call Amazon ‘The River’ and their river does have a bit of a ‘flow’ problem quite often …
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Here, too. Local station had an end of year wrap-up of the most popular songs called “Opus 1972,” “Opus 1973,” etc. No direct connection, I just positioned the microphone close to the speaker on my parents’ cabinet-sized entertainment center. Picked up many family conversations in the background. 
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Big fat ZERO for me! And I still do at least 4 of them. In fact I’m surrounded by 3 different French-English and French-French dictionaries as I type – and yeah, I still own a regular English one, too, though I use it only for crosswords.
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You wound me, sir.
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“You wound me, sir.”
Not as bad as when I told my wife to stop talking —
Actually the after effects of surgery to remove a basal cell carcinoma this week…
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I never recorded from radio and I never sent or got a fax. Then, I got my first cell phone 4 months ago, which puts me in the “advanced dinosaur” category. My 2 year-old car has GPS which I never bothered to figure out because I have lots of paper maps.
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Must be an Amazon manager –
On a serious note, Scott Adams just died. He went off script political and pretty much killed one of my favorite strips. He did write a "1996 bestseller “The Dilbert Principle.” Inspired by the Peter principle, a management concept in which employees are said to be promoted to their level of incompetence, Mr. Adams argued that “the most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management.”"
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Another ‘wicked old’ New Englander here.
I never recorded from the radio, that was my sole score.
RE: Fax machines, a story I haven’t thought about for decades:
I ran a small non-profit agency in the 70s & 80s and was an early adapter of the new-fangled Fax machine. I had a telephone call (probably a rotary phone, that is) from a sister organization asking for some information. I asked whether that office had a Fax machine, and the caller said yes. So that’s how I sent the information. Three days later, I received a snail-mail envelope from the agency with the faxed document enclosed. The cover letter said, “Thanks for sharing this information. We have photocopied, and are returning your original.”
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