A Vintage Item Quiz

[19and41]

Try not to be too disappointed in the telephone question.

http://www.pastfactory.com/2018/05/08/are-you-able-to-pass-this-vintage-items-quiz-most-cant/

[RB]

Drat...missed 2...did not know wut a hacker was

[Argee]

missed 2 as well, hacker and Lamppost instead of Gas Lamp

[Fushigi Ojisan]

Gen X-er, missed three (hacker, coffee grinder, and one other).

Most of them were no-brainers, and a few required more brains.

Interesting to me is that they couldn't be bothered to use the full name of the Atari Video Computer System (VCS).  Its from its part number (CX-2600) that it got its identity later on (and all Atari-made games have a part number that begin CZ-26XX, when they got to 100, they added another character rather than go to 2700)

Also, that tape deck was technically a receiver that happened to have a built-in 8-track.   

[Fabius]

Missed 2. Picked pepper grinder instead of coffee grinder. Forgot the 2nd miss.

[jsowers]

Missed the same two as Argee. That lamp was on a lamp post, so they needed to point an arrow to the lamp. A smaller version of what they call hackling we call a hetchel and it was for turning flax into linen. My parents collected antiques my entire childhood, so I've seen lots of this stuff. That tape recorder was for recording 8-track tapes and it was just a recording deck. You had to plug it into your receiver to record anything.

[oldguy]

I guessed correctly on hackling but had no idea what it was. I missed the Atari, I knew it was a video game but my oldest boys 1st video game was the Nintendo Intertainment System (NES). I forget the second one I missed. Was the phone push button or rotary dial? It looked like push button.

[mentalstampede]

I guessed correctly on hackling but had no idea what it was. I missed the Atari, I knew it was a video game but my oldest boys 1st video game was the Nintendo Intertainment System (NES). I forget the second one I missed. Was the phone push button or rotary dial? It looked like push button.

It's a modern "pushbutton" copy of a 302. So not a rotary phone at all, really. And they put phonograph in there twice; the first time as a "record player." These things make me shake my head sometimes, and I'm not that old.

[Dan/Panther]

I missed the Milk bottle. We used to have our milk delivered in a glass bottle. Never saw one with that small a neck.
Hacker, and the shoe lace button device.
D/P

[FABphones]

The link gives me 'currently unavailable'. Shame, looks like it was interesting.

[twocvbloke]

The link gives me 'currently unavailable'. Shame, looks like it was interesting.

Same here, it'll be that GDPR nonsense in action again...

[Haf]

Yeah, same here too. And even same with some other links recently like this one from another topic http://www.classicrotaryphones.com/forum/index.php?topic=20626.0;topicseen

https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/53540771 ( dead link 06-19-21 )

access denied from the page. Sad.

Haf

[HarrySmith]

Both of those links worked fine for me?

[twocvbloke]

Both of those inks worked fine for me?

It's EU interference, those of us stuck in the Union that us brits are leaving are being hammered by internet law changes which the US isn't interested in (and neither are we to be honest), and the simplest solution to avoid compliance, they just block us... 

A number of US-based websites I've tried getting to that were useable pre-GDPR are now either saying I'm blocked, they don't load, or they refuse access due to location...

[19and41]

I missed the Milk bottle. We used to have our milk delivered in a glass bottle. Never saw one with that small a neck.
Hacker, and the shoe lace button device.
D/P

I believe European milk bottles had a narrow neck.  North American bottles had the crinolated mouth for the pog insert.