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.