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Re: Friday Funnies - early
I will agree with this statement. Some choose to only know what is current. I have always had an interest in both current and historical. How about 8 tracks!
Signed another young archivist in training,
Shirley Derrick, MLIS
Assistant Records and Information Manager
Briggs & Stratton Corporation
PO Box 702
Milwaukee, WI 53201-0702
(414) 259-5654 phone
(414) 259-5489 fax
>>> "Garth D. Reese Jr" <reesegd@EARTHLINK.NET> 10/04/01 11:41AM >>>
At the same time.... we are archivists... I'm a mere 27 years into this world
and I've come across all these things - in fact, I find that, except for
computers, I prefer most 'vintage' technology, as it were.
Garth Reese
MLIS Student
UCLA
"Wick, Charles Harrison" wrote:
> Well, it is interesting to think there may be members of this list who don't
> remember the 486 or LPs, but the true test of age and technological
> obsolescence is whether they know what your talking about when you mention
> beta or 5 1/4" floppy disks. We had a teenage patron who came down to
> Preservation with a beta tape asking why it didn't work in his VCR. I've
> also met undergrads who have never seen a 5 1/4" disk.
>
> C. Harrison S. Wick
> NEH Supervisor
> Preservation
> Indiana University
> Bloomington
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer [mailto:c_crawfo@CULINARY.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:12 AM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: Friday Funnies - early
>
> I had a horrible thought while reading the Friday Funnies this morning, that
> there may be some younger members on the list who are totally bewildered by
> them. "A rotary what??"
>
> Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
> Special Collections Librarian/Archivist
>
> Culinary Institute of America
> 1946 Campus Drive
> Hyde Park, NY 12538
> (845) 451-1757
> c_crawfo@culinary.edu
>
> >>> "STEVEN P. FISHER" <sfisher@DU.EDU> 10/04/01 10:35AM >>>
> we would need a needle to go with it. We
> flagged down the nearest employee, who was perhaps all of eighteen. He had
> no idea what we were talking about. "A needle - what's a needle?" He went
> and got an "older" employee who was maybe thirty but luckily knew what
> it was we needed.
>
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