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My mom was a good cook and we lived in the South so we never had jellied meats or the like. Beef stroganoff was had and it owns, I made some in an instant pot. She also made baked Alaska once, that was a big deal. But of the oldest food memories I have is of her cooking liver and onions. The smell dear god. I guess ate it? When the 80s came around all that stuff went away thankfully.
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a crystal radio is just an AM radio that uses a crystal for a power source iirc. I had a kit where you'd wire up a few things and have a crude working one but dont' remember it ever working e wiki says the crystal 'rectifies' the signal and signal itself powers the radio which is maybe more crazy than the power coming from the crystal
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Vile_Nihlist666 posted:On topic: I have talked to a lot of boomers and older Gen X that can't type, and when asked, say they avoided using typewriters, ever. I get the misogyny part of this, but for Boomers especially, it's like, my guy, typewriters were LITERALLY UNAVOIDABLE. How in the gently caress did you ever think it was a good idea to at least learn how to properly type up basic documents? Even without the advent of the PC, did you really think you would never have to type ANYTHING? GenX here. I took typing in middle school. Was only 1 of 2 boys. I had a primitive home pc so it appealed to me and has paid off 1000x over. A lot of people had no pc exposure so this would have been seen as something aspiring secretaries and clerks learned. Boomers I imagine even more so. Typing on a typewriter was something the average person rarely did.
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Yeah a lot of papers were written out in cursive. When I went to college my mom bought me what was probably sold as a word processor. It was like an electronic typewriter with a little lcd screen that contained the text, a floppy drive to save and I think integrated spell check. When everything was good it would print to a sheet of paper on the same device. This was way ahead of most or all of my peers with this thing as basically no one had a laptop then, maybe by the time I graduated computers were starting to make their presence known and that thing became mostly obsolete. So much about college changed in like the course of a decade, from my older brother standing in long lines all day to sign up for classes, to me sitting on the phone for hours trying to get into classes (and I can still remember what the goddamn voice prompt said) to probably a year or two later everything being done on the web.
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