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A
- Action replay cartridge use
- Adding water to car batteries
- Adjusting a clock's pendulum
- Adjusting a television's horizontal and vertical holds
- Adjusting a television's color and hue adjustments
- Adjusting rabbit ears on top of a TV
- Adjusting the antenna of an AM-only radio?
- Adjusting the dwell angle on the spark distributor of an engine
- Adjusting the head azimuth of a Commodore's Datassette
- Adjusting the levels and song layout for recording to audio tape
- Adjusting the tracking on a VCR
- Adjusting the vertical and horizontal angles of the stylus on a tonearm?
- 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
- Analogue radio listening and tuning in
- Anti-war protesting
- Archie
- AS 400
- Asbestos installation
- Assembly programming
- Assessing the relative merits of BetaMax and VHS
- Assessing the relative merits of BluRay and HD-DVD
- AT commands for dial-up modems
- Attaching nose-guard and rails to your skateboard
- Autoexec.bat editing
B
- Backing up a PC using QIC-40 or QIC-80 tapes
- Balancing the tonearm on a turntable
- Banyan Vines
- BASIC
- Batch file programming
- BBS administration
- Be Kind - Rewind
- Biasing vacuum tubes
- Bleeding patients
- Blowing the dust out of a Nintendo cartridge
- Blueboxing
- Booting off a floppy disk
- Bootloading with binary switches
- Brain and smoke-Tanning
- Burning and Erasing EPROMs
- Building a computer from individual components
- Building a Heathkit
- Building a log cabin as your primary residence
- Building an AppleTalk network using PhoneNet
- Burnishing a cartridge connector with a pencil eraser to ensure a solid connection
- Bust apart a long computer printout
- Buy a roll of film
C
- Calculating THAC0
- Calculating a square root using pencil and paper
- Calculating sales tax
- Calligraphy
- Calling a phone sex line
- Calling collect on a payphone
- Carbon Copy Paper
- 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
- Centering text on a typewriter
- 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: EBCDIC
- Cheating at computer games by modifying save game files with a hex editor
- Cheating at computer games using a loader or binary patch
- Chipping flint or obsidian tools
- Churn butter
- Cleaning fish
- Cleaning head of a VCR
- Cleaning the balls inside a computer mouse for better traction
- Cleaning the carbon out of spark plugs so they can be filed, gapped, and reused
- Clearing the party line
- Clicking on the up and down arrows of a vertical scrollbar
- COBOL
- Command line programming for Edlin
- Common sense
- Compiling source code by hand
- Compiling the nucleus of a VM/370 mainframe
- Compressing a HDD to make vital space
- Comptometer Operator
- Compulsory Figures
- Concocting a Physick to balance the Vital Humors?
- Configuring Trumpet Winsock
- Config.sys editing
- Connecting to a BBS through an acoustic coupler at 300 baud
- Control S, Control Q commands to manipulate flow on a hardcopy terminal
- Converting a Ford flathead four or V8 engine to overhead valves?
- Converting a single-sided 5.25" floppy disk to double-sided
- Converting a single-sided floppy disk to double-sided, using a drill
- 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
- Crawling under the door of a pay toilet
- Create comprehensive lists from thousands of anonymous sources without using a wiki?
- Creating a mimeograph master
- Creating a table of random numbers?
- Creating useful websites?
- Operate a credit card imprinter (click-clack)
- Crew a muzzle loading cannon
- Cursive handwriting
- Cutting a Gestetner stencil
- Cutting and setting parquet?
- Cuff links - you needed them then to a party
- CycleCounting
D
- Darkroom photography skills
- Darning a sock
- dBase I
- dBase IV
- Debug g=c800:5
- Debugging hexadecimal dumps
- Degaussing a CRT monitor
- Delivering milk to homes
- Desk-checking programs before submitting to mainframe
- Developing photographic film
- Dewey decimal system
- Dialing a rotary phone
- Digital circuits made with discrete logic gates?
- DOS
- Ditto machine operation & maintenance
- Doing a 50-line Pascal triangle in modulo 10
- Double Spacing between Sentences
- Double-speed Tape-to-Tape copying
- Double de-clutching
- Drafting with pencils and T-square
- Drive a manual transmission
- Driving a car
- Drying Clothes with a Mangle
- Drying Model T coils
- Dueling with swords, guns, et cetera, to settle differences
E
- Eating from a trencher
- Extracting square roots
- Extending The Antenna On The Cellphone
- Editing audio tape with a razor blade and splicing block
- Editing with ed
- 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
- Editing a text file on a hardcopy paper-output terminal?
- Editing text with a restricted 80-characters per column
- Entering "freeware" programs from a magazine
- Exercise
- Extensions: managing them on Mac OS 9 and earlier
F
- fdisk <slash>mbr
- Filing cards in a library card catalog
- Finding channels on UHF
- Fixing a Disk using a hex editor
- Focusing a camera
- Formatting a floppy
- FORTRAN programming - though the logic is still good
- Freethinking
- FTP from a command line
G
- Gapping the points in a distributor
- Gathering medicinal herbs and plants in the field
- General Conversation
- Getting a rhythm going while typing on a manual typewriter?
- Getting off the couch to change channels on your TV set
- Getting to know your neighbors
- Getting TSRs and CD device drivers to load into DOS
- Giving a Wood Burning Kit for a kids gift?
- Giving driving directions over the phone?
- Gopher
- Greasing an automobile chassis?
- Grinding grain with a millstone?
- GSM and GPRS Mobile Systems
H
- Halberd - use in battle
- Hand crank a car to start it
- Hand lettering large signs
- Handwriting
- Harness a team of oxen
- Having your gas pumped for you and your oil checked at a full-service gas station
- Hayes Command Set
- Hercules Graphics Card Programming
- Hewing wood with an adze
- Hexadecimal arithmetic in your head
- Himem.sys
- Hold And Modify graphics
- Holding the AM radio up to an 8-track recorder to tape your favorite song?
- How to live
- HP-3000 System Manager?
- Hunting a woolly mammoth
- HyperCard and HyperTalk
- Hyphenation and justification of a page of type
I
- IDDQD & IDKFA
- Illumination
- Inserting a game cartridge at just the right angle to make it work
- Inserting one additional letter into the middle of a typed line with a typewriter
- Installing Linux from floppy disks
- Interpreting punch cards
- IS-95 CDMA mobile systems?
- ISDN
J
K
- Kermit to transfer files
- Knowing what part of town someone lives in by their phone exchange
- Knapping flint
- Knob and Tube House Wiring
L
- Laying out magazines using wax and bromides
- Level Design for 2d games like Doom and Duke
- Letter writing
- Letting your fingers do the walking
- Library Hand
- Lighting a carbide miner's lamp
- Lighting a kerosene lamp
- Lining up paper on a dot matrix or line printer
- LISP in AutoCAD
- Living
- Loading a musket
- 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
- Long division
- Looking up credit card numbers in the delinquent numbers book?
- Longbow - training
- Look for a job in the classifieds
- Looking up a business on the yellow pages
- Low Format a Harddrive
- Lye-making from ash
M
- Mailing in the order form of a catalog?
- Making a chain of pop-tops
- Making a deer fat poultice?
- Making a home movie with a cine camera
- Making a mixed tape
- Making a nail art picture
- Making a necklace from soda can pop tops?
- Making an operator assisted phone call
- Making change in shillings and pence
- Making electronic tubes
- Making Ice-Cream with a hand-crank freezer
- Making ink
- Making paint?
- Making oil-cloth?
- Manage a MVS mainframe
- Manners
- Manually loading ink on a fountain pen from an bottle
- Manually patching an 80 column tab card?
- Map Reading
- Meeting people by answering personal ads in a newspaper or magazine?
- Memorizing Multiplication Tables
- Memorizing Vacuum Tube Pinouts?
- Microsoft Office
- Mimeograph or Gestetner machine operating
- Minicomputer programming
- Modem to Modem Computer Gaming
- Modify Termcap files
- Morse-coding messages
- Mounting a Computer Tape by hand?
- Mounting photographic slides in slide mounts?
- Multics
- Multiplication using a Sliderule
- Mummification
- Munge parchment for re-use?
- Mustache waxing?
N
- Navigate by the stars
- Navigate using a LORAN
- Navigate using a sextant
- Navigating using a compass
- NEAT 3 Levels 1 and 2
- Nested table web design
- Netware
- Numbering your punch cards with a pencil, in case you drop your program
O
- Obsolete Skills, Identification of
- Opening a can of beer or soda with a church key
- Opening a wine bottle
- Operating an agitator washing machine and clothes ringer
- Operating an Overhead Projector
- Operating an HD DVD player!!
- OS2?
- Operating a 35mm movie projector and setting the carbons
- Operating CB radio
P
- Painting cave walls
- Palm OS programming?
- Paradox
- Parking a hard disk
- PASCAL-TurboPASCAL
- Pausing an INN news server to expire old articles from the system
- Paying with cash
- PDP-11 assembler
- Peeling the developer layer off a Polaroid
- Peeling back a lid from an sardine can with a key?
- Peering through a keyhole
- Penmanship?
- Percolating coffee
- Phone phreaking using in-band tone generators
- Photographing the Moon Using Film
- Phrenology
- Plastering by hand with lath
- Pick database development
- Pickle
- Placing a coin on a tonearm to prevent skipping
- Planting a Victory Garden
- Playing a musical instrument
- Playing BBS door games?
- Playing marbles
- Playing arcade games
- Polaroid photography
- Popping corn in a pot with oil
- Porn not from the Internet
- Pouring plates to run a DNA sequencing reaction
- 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 a key punch machine?
- Programming a VCR to record a show?
- Programming an analogue car radio
- Programming in Powerhouse by Cognos?
- Programming in dBase or Clipper
- Programming in FORTH?
- Programming in machine language in your head and then loading the code by flipping front panel switches
- Programming plugboards?
- Propping an airplane to start the engine
- Pumping up the tongue in your inflatable shoes?
- 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
- Pulse dialing
- Putting a needle on a vinyl record
Q
R
- Raising an antenna
- Reading a dictionary or encyclopedia
- 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 logarithm tables
- Reckoning arithmetic without aid?
- Recording television with a VCR
- Recording Windows macros
- Reinking a type writer or dot matrix printer ribbon
- Remembering keystroke commands in Visicalc?
- Remembering passwords
- Remembering patch settings for your analog synthesizer?
- 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
- Resolving IRQ conflicts on a mother board
- Respooling a chewed-up VCR tape or audio cassette
- Rewinding VCR tapes
- Reverse Polish Notation
- Rewinding an audio cassette using a Bic pen*
- Riding a rope tow?
- Riding a skateboard with wooden wheels?
- Ride a penny-farthing bicycle
- Ripping the little holes off the sides of the computer paper
- Rolling down the car window
- Routing email by hand
- RPG?
- Running a mimeograph machine?
- Running hard drive pattern checks
S
- Saving soft drink bottles & taking them to grocery store to get your deposit back
- Saving tin for The War
- Saving your programs to a cassette tape?
- Salting cod as a preservative?
- S100 Bus
- 370 Computer Engineer?
- SCO Unix Administration
- SCSI HD configuration - SCSI ID select, Termination enable disable
- Searching a card catalog
- Searching Iraq for Weapons of Mass Destruction
- Selling something in the Classified Ads
- Sending a letter
- Sending a telegram?
- 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 correct time on a VCR
- Setting the timer on a VCR
- Setting type for printing
- Setting the choke or pumping the accelerator to start a car
- Sharpening a mechanical pencil with fine-grit sandpaper
- Sharpening a razor blade
- Shave with a straight razor
- Shift+F7 (WordPerfect?)
- Shorting out the handset of a pay phone to make free phone calls
- Shorthand
- Signing up multiple times to a mail-order record club to obtain free music
- Skating on metal wheels
- Sliderule
- Slow masturbation
- SmallTalk programming
- Smelling a freshly mimeographed test paper?
- Starching a removable collar?
- Soldering dry joints in the circuit board of a VGA monitor?
- Speaking Latin in everyday conversation
- Speaking whatever extinct language
- Speaking British English
- Spelling
- Splicing audio recording tape
- Splicing out damaged portions of a VHS Cassette tape
- Starting a car by removing the air filter and holding the flutter valve open
- Stacking a quarter on an arcade game to indicate you have next
- Starting a car that has a manual choke
- Starting a John Deere two-cylinder tractor by hand
- 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
- Super 8 Film cutting and editing
- Sucking tokens from a subway turnstile
- Surveying land using a theodolite
- Swapping floppy disks
- Swapping plates in a hard drive
- Switching to high beams by stomping on a button in the floor
- Switching from TV mode to Game mode on the box behind the tv
- Sword fighting
T
- Taking the tape out of an answering machine
- Talking face-to-face
- Tape to Tape Video Editing
- Teeing off from a sand mound
- Telegraph Operator
- Television Repair
- Telling the time by a sundial?
- Testing radio and TV tubes
- Threading a Filmstrip?
- Threading a 8mm or 16mm film projector?
- Throwing with an atlatl
- Ticket Conductors on Buses
- Ties
- Tinning copper cookware
- Token Ring?
- Transferring files between computers using LapLink?
- Triangulating your position
- 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 Carburetor
- Tuning a radio
- Tuning a TV with the fine tuning knob around the channel selector?
- Using a tuning fork
- Tuning in TV stations by using an antenna rotor
- Tying shoes with hook laces
- Tweaking your AUTOEXEC<dot>BAT and CONFIG<dot>SYS files
- Typesetting
- Typing 'open door' and 'Ken sent me'
- Typing and sending a telex
U
- Understanding Roman Numbers
- Uniface Development?
- Unsnapping a bra without the girl noticing
- Untangling a typewriter's typebars?
- 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 beer can opener
- Using a bit and brace
- Using an ink blotter
- Using an abacus
- Using carbon paper to make copies
- Using a card catalogue
- Using correction fluid
- Using a Capt'n Crunch Secret Decoder Ring
- Using a Dwell meter to tune your cars engine.
- Using a filmstrip projector
- Using a flash bulb?
- Using a flash cube
- Using a flipflash?
- Using a FOSSIL driver?
- 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 party-line telephone
- Using a pay telephone
- Using a track ball mouse
- Using a telephone dating service
- Using a scythe
- Using a slide rule
- Using a pointer stick as "mouse" on laptops
- Using a Typewriter?
- Using an adding machine
- Using carbon paper to make copies
- Using a card sorter?
- Using correction fluid
- Using punch cards
- Using 'sacadm' to configure serial ports?
- Using a typescale?
- Using a Log Table
- Using WordPerfect in a DOS window on a computer?
- Using a manual choke in cold weather
- Using a sextant?
- Using the Readers Guide to Periodical Literature
- Using an Odhner type pin-wheel calculator
- Using an optical bombsight?
- Using a mangle to dry clothes?
- Using telephone exchange names
- Using your fancy Zip Drive to copy mp3s
- UUCP configuration
- UUencode usage to transfer binary
- Using a mechanical calculator?
- Using white carbon paper to type over typographical errors on a typewriter?
- Using a skate key to adjust clamp-on roller skates?
V
W
- WAIS - Wide Area Information Service?
- Walking long distances
- Walking stick for your Sunday stroll in the park
- Washing clothes with a washboard
- Washing Clothes using a wringer washing machine
- Watching a slide show with a slide projector
- Waxing Nordic Skis
- Wearing gaiters?
- Wearing a girdle
- Wearing a hat
- Whipping cream with a whisk
- Whistling 2600Hz
- White Out
- 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
- Windows?
- Windows fault finding
- Windows Vista Salesman
- Wire wrapping
- Wiring an accounting machine plugboard (e.g., IBM 402, 407)
- Word processing using RUNOFF on a PDP10?
- Word processing with markup codes
- Word Perfect 5.x
- WordStar
- 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
- Writing a video kernel for the Atari 2600
X
- SCO XENIX Administration
- X25?
- Using xyzzy
- Using Xmodem protocol?
- Mastery of the MS Excel XLM macro language?