#dictaphones

[to-the-fishies]

My fiancé keeps finding various items on FB Marketplace (a sewing machine, a cash register, a vintage radio, some kind of mechanical calculator) and making lowball offers.

More often than not, the seller takes him up on it, so as to get Something for their pains.

Tonight's entry: a vintage Dictaphone, and when I say "vintage," I mean "record your thoughts on a wax cylinder like you're Jack Seward."

Me: did you offer someone $18 on marketplace again B: I could try it. ... ... ...you know what, I'm going to try it. Me: can we record messages of whimsy on the wax cylinders? B: If it works! I'm going to laugh so hard if I have a random Dictaphone retrieval tomorrow.

[shellytenter]

[endlessmusik]

Dale Cooper Quartet and the Dictaphones - Une Celier

[carolinemillerbooks]

New Post has been published on http://www.booksbycarolinemiller.com/musings/technology/word-processing-knew-fascinating-history/

Word Processing: Who Knew Its Fascinating History?

I sometimes marvel at the subjects some authors choose to explore.   Take, Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew Kirschbaum.  (“Word Perfect,” by Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, June 2016, pgs. 71-73.)   How large, I wonder, is the audience that lusts to learn how w...

[lonloncelcellotlot]

I was talking to my parents about what I'd need for university, and that I'm probably going to get a dictaphone. They both started giggling like little schoolchildren and was like "Emma needs a dick to phone" hee hee. Please kill me.

[anne-fff]

[iriedaily]

Was läuft um 15.00? Dale Cooper Quartet & the dictaphones - Metamanoir

[rachelelizasykes]

Shiny new web space, The Toast, let me write about my life-love of dictaphones. Click above.