The Speech Box

[susandennis]

machupicchu asked me about the speechbox.  "Does it have some kind of odd sentimental value for you or does it continue to serve some practical purpose?"  Oddly enough, it must be door number one because it truly has no purpose at all - even for a speech these days, because everything would be on a teleprompter or included in PowerPoint slides.  It lives on the shelves in my hallway.  I so rarely hang on to anything purely for sentimental reasons.  

The best way to show you how simple and unremarkable it is, is with pictures.  Here's the outside. 





Here's the inside - see, the pages just slide from right to left.



And, here is the instruction manual glued to the inside, it cracks me up.





It's really a relic of the past and I guess that's why I hang on to it.  I also have my slide rule from high school, a small stack of magnetic computer cards, an 8" floppy disk, several 5.25" floppy disks and the first credit card I ever got - it was called a charge card and is metal with my info raised up.  It's for a department store that, I'm pretty sure, has not been in Winston-Salem, NC for many years.

It's the museum arm of SDHQ.

Comments

[pisceandreamer.livejournal.com]

Pretty cool!

[ex-nan58.livejournal.com]

And someday they will probably all be priceless antiques!

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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Fascinating! I was just kind of surprised to hear about something like this still hanging around in your place after so many times reading about your purges of stuff you didn't need or use anymore, to the Goodwill.

It only now occurs to me to wonder if anyone would even buy an antiquated speech box at the Goodwill anyway. Might as well keep it!
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[susandennis]

Your question was one of those that brings me up short. I, like you, would have said I don't keep old shit, it all goes to Goodwill. But, on reflection, I do keep old shit and why? I'm still not sure but you always make me think.

[dujour.livejournal.com]

I love the instructions.