Obsolete Skills (via ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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A
* Adjusting a television's horizontal and vertical holds
* Adjusting a television's color and hue adjustments
* Adjusting the dwell angle on the spark distributor of an engine
* Adjusting the levels and song layout for recording to audio tape
* Adjusting the tracking on a VCR
* Adjusting a clock's pendulum
* Aiming C-band satellite dish
* Aligning the heads on a 9 track tape drive
* Aligning the heads on a five and a quarter inch floppy drive
* ALGOL programming
* Amiga 500 - Making it boot in PAL mode instead of NTSC
* Analogue radio listening and tuning in?
* AS 400
* AT commands for dial-up modems
* Attaching nose-guard and rails to your skateboard
* Autoexec.bat editing
B
* Balancing the tonearm on a turntable
* Banyan Vines
* BASIC
* BBS administration
* Be Kind - Rewind
* Bleeding patients
* Blowing the dust out of a Nintendo cartridge
* BSOD
* Booting off a floppy disk
* Bootloading with binary switches
* Burning and Erasing EPROMs
* Building a computer from individual components
* Building a log cabin as your primary residence
* Burnishing a cartridge connector with a pencil eraser to ensure a solid connection
* Bust apart a long computer printout
C
* Calculating THAC0
* Calculating a square root using pencil and paper
* Calculating sales tax
* Calligraphy
* Calling collect on a payphone
* Carving a nib into a quill or pen
* Cash Register used manually entering the prices
* Cast Lead Miniatures
* Cast Lead bullets
* Caulking your wagon to ford the river
* Cel Painting
* Changing the ball or ribbon on your Selectric Typewriter
* Changing the battery of a Sega Dreamcast VMU
* Changing the C120 Film Cartridge in your Instamatic camera
* Changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor
* Changing the ribbon on a typewriter
* Changing the wheel on a daisy wheel printer
* Changing tracks on an eight-track tape
* Changing vacuum tubes
* Character codes: Baudot
* Character codes: EBCDIC
* Chipping flint or obsidian tools
* Churn butter
* Cleaning head of a VCR
* Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
* Clicking on the up and down arrows of a vertical scrollbar
* COBOL
* Compiling source code by hand
* Compiling the nucleus of a VM/370 mainframe
* Compressing a HDD to make vital space
* Configuring Trumpet Winsock
* Connecting to a BBS through an acoustic coupler at 300 baud
* Converting a single-sided floppy disk to double-sided, using a drill hole punch
* Converting your albums from vinyl to cassette tape
* Cooking your own meal from scratch
* Counting back change
* Corset - unlace before taking on the dress,gown,frock
* CP/M
* Cranking a telephone
* Cranking the engine on a Ford Model T
* Cranking up or down a car-window
* Crew a muzzle loading cannon
* Cursive handwriting
* Cutting and setting parquet
* Cuff links
* Cycle Counting
D
* Darkroom photography skills
* Darning a sock
* dBase III
* Decollating 6-Part printer paper
* Debug g=c800:5
* Debugging hexadecimal dumps
* Defrosting the Icebox
* Degaussing a 9-Track tape
* Degaussing a CRT monitor
* Deice a refrigerator
* Developing photographic film
* Dewey decimal system
* Dialing a rotary phone
* Double-speed Tape-to-Tape copying
* Double de-clutching
* Drafting with pencils and T-square
E
* Extracting square roots
* Extending The Antenna On The Cellphone
* Edit with edlin
* Editing dates and time source code for Y2K
* Editing AUTOEXEC-BAT and CONFIG-SYS to get as close as possible to 640K of free memory
* Extensions: managing them on Mac OS 9 and earlier
F
* Faxing a document
* fdisk /mbr
* Finding channels on UHF
* Fixing a Disk using a hex editor
* Flipping 'front panel' machine-code toggles?
* Focusing a camera
* Formatting a floppy
* FORTRAN programming
* Freethinking
* FTP from a command line
G
* Gathering medicinal herbs and plants in the field
* Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set
* Getting TSRs and CD device drivers to load into DOS
* Grinding grain with a millstone
H
* Hand crank a car to start it
* Hand lettering large signs
* Handwriting
* Harness a team of oxen
* Having Cash
* Hayes Command Set
* Hercules Graphics Card Programming
* Hewing wood with an adze
* Hexadecimal arithmetic in your head
* Himem.sys
* Hunting a woolly mammoth Does theory count?
* Hypercard and Hyperscript
I
* IDDQD & IDKFA
* Illumination
* Inserting a game cartridge at just the right angle to make it work
* Installing a vampire tap on a thick coax Ethernet LAN cable
* Installing Linux from floppy disks
* Interpreting punch cards
* Interpolating logarithms
* ISDN
J
* Jumpers on a Motherboard
K
* Kermit to transfer files
* Kids playing outside
* Killing all the megafauna on a continent
* Knowing the alphabet by heart - see also citation under "S"
* Knowing what part of town someone lives in by their phone exchange
* Knapping flint
L
* Laying out magazines using wax and bromides
* Licking stamps or envelopes
* Lighting a carbide miner's lamp
* Lighting a kerosene lamp
* Lining up paper on a dot matrix or line printer
* LISP in AutoCAD
* Loading a 9-Track tape drive
* Loading a disk platter
* Loading a reel to reel tape drive
* Loading data from a cassette tape
* Loading film into a 35 mm camera
* Loading film into a 60 mm camera
* Loading the OS2 module for Netware 3.12 to get 64 character length file names
* Local Grocery Store
* Long-Distance Phone Calling
* Long division
* Longbow - training
* Look for a job in the classifieds
* Looking up a business on the yellow pages
* Low level Format a Harddrive
M
* Mailing in the order form of a catalog
* Making a deer fat poultice
* Making a home movie with a cine camera
* Making a nail art picture
* 4" floppy double-sided
* Making apothecaries from recipes
* Making change in shillings and pence
* Making chain-mail and amory
* Making electronic tubes
* Making Ice-Cream with a hand-crank freezer
* Making ink
* Making paint
* Making oil-cloth
* Manage a MVS mainframe
* Manually loading ink on a fountain pen from an bottle
* Map Reading
* Memorizing Multiplication Tables
* Memory Management
* Modem to Modem Computer Gaming
* Morse-coding messages
* Mounting a Computer Tape by hand
* Mounting photographic slides in slide mounts
* Multiplication using a Sliderule
* Munge parchement for re-use
N
* Navigate by the stars
* Navigate using a LORAN
* Navigate using a sextant
* Navigating using a compass
* Nested table web design
* Netware
* Numbering your punch cards with a pencil, in case you drop your program
O
* Open and Administrate a Blog
* Operating an agitator washing machine and clothes ringer
* Operating an IBM 010 manual key punch
* Operating an IBM 026 electric key punch
* Operating an IBM 029 key punch
* Operating an Overhead Projector
* OS2
P
* Painting cave walls
* Palm OS programming
* Parking a hardisk
* PASCAL-TurboPASCAL
* Paying for something with a check
* PEEK and POKE
* Peeling the developer layer off a Polaroid
* Peeling back a lid from an sardine can with a key
* Percolating coffee
* Phrenology
* Pickle
* Placing a coin on a tonearm to prevent skipping
* Playing marbles
* Playing mumblety-peg
* Playing solitaire with playing cards
* Poker games other than Texas Hold 'Em
* Polaroid photography
* Popping corn in a pot with oil
* Preparing a galena crystal for radio-detection
* Preparing a goose quill for writing with an inkwell
* Pressing CR then LF on a computer keyboard?
* Programming an analogue car radio
* Programming in dBase or Clipper
* Programming in MS Visual Basic The company's latest and greatest uses VB
* Programming in machine language in your head and then loading the code by flipping front panel switches
* Propping an airplane to start the engine
* Punching a drum card for a keypunch machine
* Punching a hole in the shell of a single-sided 5.25" floppy disc to make it double-sided
* Putting a needle on a vinyl record
Q
* QBASIC
* Performing a Quirkafleeg
* Questing for Treasure
R
* Raising an antenna
* Reading a dictionary or encyclopedia
* Reading a paper map
* Reading a Sundial
* Reading a Vernier Scale
* Reading Guru Meditation error codes
* Reading Gothic letters in newspapers and enclopædias
* Reading Hollerith punch codes on an unlabelled IBM punchcard
* Reading Moon Tables or Tide Tables
* Reading printed newspaper
* Reckoning arithmetic without aid
* Recording television with a VCR
* Reinking a type writer or dot matrix printer ribbon
* Remembering keystroke commands in Visicalc
* Remembering telephone numbers
* Removing perforations off fanfold paper so it looks like normal typing paper
* Repairing an 8-track tape cartridge
* Repairing small appliances
* Repairing wooden cart wheels
* Replacing Shoe Sole and Heels
* Replacing the glass in the photocamera after each photo
* Replaying a Telex message by feeding back the tape
* hectograph
* Resaccing a fountain pen
* Resoling shoes
* Resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board
* Respooling a chewed-up VCR tape or audio cassette
* Rewind VCR tapes
* Rewinding an audio cassette using a Bic pen
* Riding a skateboard with wooden wheels
* Ride a penny-farthing bicycle
* Ride an actual bicycle of any type
* Ripping the little holes off the sides of the computer paper
* Running a mimeograph machine
S
* Saving tin for The War
* Saving your programs to a cassette tape
* Salting cod as a preservative
* S100 Bus
* Searching a card catalog
* Selling something in the Classified Ads
* Sending a letter
* Setting a baud rate, parity and stop-bits
* Setting up a modem using AT commands
* Setting up a screen saver to avoid burned in image on the CRT
* Setting the timer on a VCR
* Setting type for printing
* Setting the choke or pumping the accelerator to start a car
* Shave with a straight razor
* Shift+F7
* Shorthand
* Silverlight
* Slaughtering Small Mammals and Birds
* SmallTalk programming
* Starching a removable collar
* Spelling
* Splicing audio recording tape
* Splicing out damaged portions of a VHS Cassette tape
* Stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next game
* Starting a car that has a manual choke
* Starting a fire by drilling a stick into another piece of wood
* Starting a fire by striking flint onto flint-steel
* Steam locomotive - how to run and maintain it
* Stenography
* Stickball
* Stirring the yellow dye tablet into white margarine to make it look like butter
* Sucking tokens from a subway turnstile
* Swapping floppy disks
* Swapping plates in a hard drive
* Sword fighting
T
* Taking the tape out of an answering machine
* Tape to Tape Video Editing
* Telegraph Operator
* Testing radio and TV tubes
* Thinking for oneself
* Threading a needle
* Throwing lawn darts
* Throwing with an atlatl
* Ticket Conductors on Buses
* Tinning copper cookware
* Operating a Treadle Sewing Machine
* Trim the wick on an oil lamp
* Trimming a quill pen
* TSRs
* Tune the tape head on a Commodore 64?
* Tuning a radio
* Tying shoes with hook laces
* Tweaking your AUTOEXECBAT and CONFIGSYS files?
* Typesetting
* Typing "open door" and "Ken sent me"
* Typing and sending a telex
U
* Unlocking a car door using a key
* Untangling the cord of a telephone
* Upgrading to a 16550 UART
* Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Select-Start in Konami games
* Using 'sacadm' to configure serial ports
* Using a 16 mm film projector
* Using a beeper or pager
* Using an ink blotter
* Using a card catalog
* Using an abacus
* Using carbon paper to make copies
* Using correction fluid
* Using a compass
* Using a Capt'n Crunch Secret Decoder Ring
* Using a Dwell meter to tune your cars engine.
* Using a fax machine
* Using a filmstrip projector
* Using a flash bulb
* Using a flash cube
* Using a fountain pen
* Using a light pen
* Using a Logarithm Table
* Using a manual choke in cold weather
* Using a microfiche
* Using a newsreader
* Using paper tape for programming
* Using a pay telephone
* Using a pay toilet
* Using a scythe
* Using a manual twist-drill
* Using a slide rule
* Using a pointer stick as "mouse" on laptops
* Using a Timing Light
* Using a Typewriter
* Using an adding machine
* Using carbon paper to make copies
* Using correction fluid
* Using punch cards
* Using a DOS window on a computer?
* Using the Dewey Decimal System
* Using the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature
* Using an Odhner type pin-wheel calculator
* Using the toggle switches on the front of a DataGeneral Nova 1200 to enable in octal the paper tape reader
* UUCP configuration
* UUencode usage to transfer binary
V
* Vantive?
* VCR Programming
* Viscously Vacuuming Verily?
* Visual Basic 3 Programming?
* Voice Mail
W
* Walking long distances
* Walking stick for your Sunday stroll in the park
* Washing clothes with a washboard
* Watching a slide show with a slide projector
* Whipping cream with a whisk
* Whistling 2600Hz
* Wilderness Survival
* Winding a watch or clock
* Winding coils for a crystal-radio set
* Winding up loose cassette tape with a pencil eraser before putting the cassette in the deck
* Wire wrapping
* Wiring an accounting machine plugboard? (e.g., IBM 402, 407)
* Word processing with markup codes (WordPerfect 5.1)
* Writing email whilst offline and going online to send
* Writing using a dip pen and powder to dry up the ink
* Writing a terminate-and-stay-resident DOS program
X
* X25
* Using xyzzy
* Mastery of the MS Excel XLM macro language
Y
* YP commands
Z
* ZIPping archives across multiple floppy disks
* Zmodem to transfer a file
* Zone-system calculation for photographic exposures
* ZX Spectrum and "R Tape loading error, 0:1"
* Adjusting a television's horizontal and vertical holds
* Adjusting a television's color and hue adjustments
* Adjusting the dwell angle on the spark distributor of an engine
* Adjusting the levels and song layout for recording to audio tape
* Adjusting the tracking on a VCR
* Adjusting a clock's pendulum
* Aiming C-band satellite dish
* Aligning the heads on a 9 track tape drive
* Aligning the heads on a five and a quarter inch floppy drive
* ALGOL programming
* Amiga 500 - Making it boot in PAL mode instead of NTSC
* Analogue radio listening and tuning in?
* AS 400
* AT commands for dial-up modems
* Attaching nose-guard and rails to your skateboard
* Autoexec.bat editing
B
* Balancing the tonearm on a turntable
* Banyan Vines
* BASIC
* BBS administration
* Be Kind - Rewind
* Bleeding patients
* Blowing the dust out of a Nintendo cartridge
* BSOD
* Booting off a floppy disk
* Bootloading with binary switches
* Burning and Erasing EPROMs
* Building a computer from individual components
* Building a log cabin as your primary residence
* Burnishing a cartridge connector with a pencil eraser to ensure a solid connection
* Bust apart a long computer printout
C
* Calculating THAC0
* Calculating a square root using pencil and paper
* Calculating sales tax
* Calligraphy
* Calling collect on a payphone
* Carving a nib into a quill or pen
* Cash Register used manually entering the prices
* Cast Lead Miniatures
* Cast Lead bullets
* Caulking your wagon to ford the river
* Cel Painting
* Changing the ball or ribbon on your Selectric Typewriter
* Changing the battery of a Sega Dreamcast VMU
* Changing the C120 Film Cartridge in your Instamatic camera
* Changing the gas mixture on your car's carburetor
* Changing the ribbon on a typewriter
* Changing the wheel on a daisy wheel printer
* Changing tracks on an eight-track tape
* Changing vacuum tubes
* Character codes: Baudot
* Character codes: EBCDIC
* Chipping flint or obsidian tools
* Churn butter
* Cleaning head of a VCR
* Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
* Clicking on the up and down arrows of a vertical scrollbar
* COBOL
* Compiling source code by hand
* Compiling the nucleus of a VM/370 mainframe
* Compressing a HDD to make vital space
* Configuring Trumpet Winsock
* Connecting to a BBS through an acoustic coupler at 300 baud
* Converting a single-sided floppy disk to double-sided, using a drill hole punch
* Converting your albums from vinyl to cassette tape
* Cooking your own meal from scratch
* Counting back change
* Corset - unlace before taking on the dress,gown,frock
* CP/M
* Cranking a telephone
* Cranking the engine on a Ford Model T
* Cranking up or down a car-window
* Crew a muzzle loading cannon
* Cursive handwriting
* Cutting and setting parquet
* Cuff links
* Cycle Counting
D
* Darkroom photography skills
* Darning a sock
* dBase III
* Decollating 6-Part printer paper
* Debug g=c800:5
* Debugging hexadecimal dumps
* Defrosting the Icebox
* Degaussing a 9-Track tape
* Degaussing a CRT monitor
* Deice a refrigerator
* Developing photographic film
* Dewey decimal system
* Dialing a rotary phone
* Double-speed Tape-to-Tape copying
* Double de-clutching
* Drafting with pencils and T-square
E
* Extracting square roots
* Extending The Antenna On The Cellphone
* Edit with edlin
* Editing dates and time source code for Y2K
* Editing AUTOEXEC-BAT and CONFIG-SYS to get as close as possible to 640K of free memory
* Extensions: managing them on Mac OS 9 and earlier
F
* Faxing a document
* fdisk /mbr
* Finding channels on UHF
* Fixing a Disk using a hex editor
* Flipping 'front panel' machine-code toggles?
* Focusing a camera
* Formatting a floppy
* FORTRAN programming
* Freethinking
* FTP from a command line
G
* Gathering medicinal herbs and plants in the field
* Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set
* Getting TSRs and CD device drivers to load into DOS
* Grinding grain with a millstone
H
* Hand crank a car to start it
* Hand lettering large signs
* Handwriting
* Harness a team of oxen
* Having Cash
* Hayes Command Set
* Hercules Graphics Card Programming
* Hewing wood with an adze
* Hexadecimal arithmetic in your head
* Himem.sys
* Hunting a woolly mammoth Does theory count?
* Hypercard and Hyperscript
I
* IDDQD & IDKFA
* Illumination
* Inserting a game cartridge at just the right angle to make it work
* Installing a vampire tap on a thick coax Ethernet LAN cable
* Installing Linux from floppy disks
* Interpreting punch cards
* Interpolating logarithms
* ISDN
J
* Jumpers on a Motherboard
K
* Kermit to transfer files
* Kids playing outside
* Killing all the megafauna on a continent
* Knowing the alphabet by heart - see also citation under "S"
* Knowing what part of town someone lives in by their phone exchange
* Knapping flint
L
* Laying out magazines using wax and bromides
* Licking stamps or envelopes
* Lighting a carbide miner's lamp
* Lighting a kerosene lamp
* Lining up paper on a dot matrix or line printer
* LISP in AutoCAD
* Loading a 9-Track tape drive
* Loading a disk platter
* Loading a reel to reel tape drive
* Loading data from a cassette tape
* Loading film into a 35 mm camera
* Loading film into a 60 mm camera
* Loading the OS2 module for Netware 3.12 to get 64 character length file names
* Local Grocery Store
* Long-Distance Phone Calling
* Long division
* Longbow - training
* Look for a job in the classifieds
* Looking up a business on the yellow pages
* Low level Format a Harddrive
M
* Mailing in the order form of a catalog
* Making a deer fat poultice
* Making a home movie with a cine camera
* Making a nail art picture
* 4" floppy double-sided
* Making apothecaries from recipes
* Making change in shillings and pence
* Making chain-mail and amory
* Making electronic tubes
* Making Ice-Cream with a hand-crank freezer
* Making ink
* Making paint
* Making oil-cloth
* Manage a MVS mainframe
* Manually loading ink on a fountain pen from an bottle
* Map Reading
* Memorizing Multiplication Tables
* Memory Management
* Modem to Modem Computer Gaming
* Morse-coding messages
* Mounting a Computer Tape by hand
* Mounting photographic slides in slide mounts
* Multiplication using a Sliderule
* Munge parchement for re-use
N
* Navigate by the stars
* Navigate using a LORAN
* Navigate using a sextant
* Navigating using a compass
* Nested table web design
* Netware
* Numbering your punch cards with a pencil, in case you drop your program
O
* Open and Administrate a Blog
* Operating an agitator washing machine and clothes ringer
* Operating an IBM 010 manual key punch
* Operating an IBM 026 electric key punch
* Operating an IBM 029 key punch
* Operating an Overhead Projector
* OS2
P
* Painting cave walls
* Palm OS programming
* Parking a hardisk
* PASCAL-TurboPASCAL
* Paying for something with a check
* PEEK and POKE
* Peeling the developer layer off a Polaroid
* Peeling back a lid from an sardine can with a key
* Percolating coffee
* Phrenology
* Pickle
* Placing a coin on a tonearm to prevent skipping
* Playing marbles
* Playing mumblety-peg
* Playing solitaire with playing cards
* Poker games other than Texas Hold 'Em
* Polaroid photography
* Popping corn in a pot with oil
* Preparing a galena crystal for radio-detection
* Preparing a goose quill for writing with an inkwell
* Pressing CR then LF on a computer keyboard?
* Programming an analogue car radio
* Programming in dBase or Clipper
* Programming in MS Visual Basic The company's latest and greatest uses VB
* Programming in machine language in your head and then loading the code by flipping front panel switches
* Propping an airplane to start the engine
* Punching a drum card for a keypunch machine
* Punching a hole in the shell of a single-sided 5.25" floppy disc to make it double-sided
* Putting a needle on a vinyl record
Q
* QBASIC
* Performing a Quirkafleeg
* Questing for Treasure
R
* Raising an antenna
* Reading a dictionary or encyclopedia
* Reading a paper map
* Reading a Sundial
* Reading a Vernier Scale
* Reading Guru Meditation error codes
* Reading Gothic letters in newspapers and enclopædias
* Reading Hollerith punch codes on an unlabelled IBM punchcard
* Reading Moon Tables or Tide Tables
* Reading printed newspaper
* Reckoning arithmetic without aid
* Recording television with a VCR
* Reinking a type writer or dot matrix printer ribbon
* Remembering keystroke commands in Visicalc
* Remembering telephone numbers
* Removing perforations off fanfold paper so it looks like normal typing paper
* Repairing an 8-track tape cartridge
* Repairing small appliances
* Repairing wooden cart wheels
* Replacing Shoe Sole and Heels
* Replacing the glass in the photocamera after each photo
* Replaying a Telex message by feeding back the tape
* hectograph
* Resaccing a fountain pen
* Resoling shoes
* Resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board
* Respooling a chewed-up VCR tape or audio cassette
* Rewind VCR tapes
* Rewinding an audio cassette using a Bic pen
* Riding a skateboard with wooden wheels
* Ride a penny-farthing bicycle
* Ride an actual bicycle of any type
* Ripping the little holes off the sides of the computer paper
* Running a mimeograph machine
S
* Saving tin for The War
* Saving your programs to a cassette tape
* Salting cod as a preservative
* S100 Bus
* Searching a card catalog
* Selling something in the Classified Ads
* Sending a letter
* Setting a baud rate, parity and stop-bits
* Setting up a modem using AT commands
* Setting up a screen saver to avoid burned in image on the CRT
* Setting the timer on a VCR
* Setting type for printing
* Setting the choke or pumping the accelerator to start a car
* Shave with a straight razor
* Shift+F7
* Shorthand
* Silverlight
* Slaughtering Small Mammals and Birds
* SmallTalk programming
* Starching a removable collar
* Spelling
* Splicing audio recording tape
* Splicing out damaged portions of a VHS Cassette tape
* Stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next game
* Starting a car that has a manual choke
* Starting a fire by drilling a stick into another piece of wood
* Starting a fire by striking flint onto flint-steel
* Steam locomotive - how to run and maintain it
* Stenography
* Stickball
* Stirring the yellow dye tablet into white margarine to make it look like butter
* Sucking tokens from a subway turnstile
* Swapping floppy disks
* Swapping plates in a hard drive
* Sword fighting
T
* Taking the tape out of an answering machine
* Tape to Tape Video Editing
* Telegraph Operator
* Testing radio and TV tubes
* Thinking for oneself
* Threading a needle
* Throwing lawn darts
* Throwing with an atlatl
* Ticket Conductors on Buses
* Tinning copper cookware
* Operating a Treadle Sewing Machine
* Trim the wick on an oil lamp
* Trimming a quill pen
* TSRs
* Tune the tape head on a Commodore 64?
* Tuning a radio
* Tying shoes with hook laces
* Tweaking your AUTOEXECBAT and CONFIGSYS files?
* Typesetting
* Typing "open door" and "Ken sent me"
* Typing and sending a telex
U
* Unlocking a car door using a key
* Untangling the cord of a telephone
* Upgrading to a 16550 UART
* Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Select-Start in Konami games
* Using 'sacadm' to configure serial ports
* Using a 16 mm film projector
* Using a beeper or pager
* Using an ink blotter
* Using a card catalog
* Using an abacus
* Using carbon paper to make copies
* Using correction fluid
* Using a compass
* Using a Capt'n Crunch Secret Decoder Ring
* Using a Dwell meter to tune your cars engine.
* Using a fax machine
* Using a filmstrip projector
* Using a flash bulb
* Using a flash cube
* Using a fountain pen
* Using a light pen
* Using a Logarithm Table
* Using a manual choke in cold weather
* Using a microfiche
* Using a newsreader
* Using paper tape for programming
* Using a pay telephone
* Using a pay toilet
* Using a scythe
* Using a manual twist-drill
* Using a slide rule
* Using a pointer stick as "mouse" on laptops
* Using a Timing Light
* Using a Typewriter
* Using an adding machine
* Using carbon paper to make copies
* Using correction fluid
* Using punch cards
* Using a DOS window on a computer?
* Using the Dewey Decimal System
* Using the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature
* Using an Odhner type pin-wheel calculator
* Using the toggle switches on the front of a DataGeneral Nova 1200 to enable in octal the paper tape reader
* UUCP configuration
* UUencode usage to transfer binary
V
* Vantive?
* VCR Programming
* Viscously Vacuuming Verily?
* Visual Basic 3 Programming?
* Voice Mail
W
* Walking long distances
* Walking stick for your Sunday stroll in the park
* Washing clothes with a washboard
* Watching a slide show with a slide projector
* Whipping cream with a whisk
* Whistling 2600Hz
* Wilderness Survival
* Winding a watch or clock
* Winding coils for a crystal-radio set
* Winding up loose cassette tape with a pencil eraser before putting the cassette in the deck
* Wire wrapping
* Wiring an accounting machine plugboard? (e.g., IBM 402, 407)
* Word processing with markup codes (WordPerfect 5.1)
* Writing email whilst offline and going online to send
* Writing using a dip pen and powder to dry up the ink
* Writing a terminate-and-stay-resident DOS program
X
* X25
* Using xyzzy
* Mastery of the MS Excel XLM macro language
Y
* YP commands
Z
* ZIPping archives across multiple floppy disks
* Zmodem to transfer a file
* Zone-system calculation for photographic exposures
* ZX Spectrum and "R Tape loading error, 0:1"