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TTY telephones.

cyclamates

Rotary-dial phones.

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...My father was in the (radio and TV) news business - I remember being at his office on election Night , 1970 , and a whole block of tetetype machines were pounding away !
My mother was in news , also - In the early 70s , IIRC , the local twice??p-weekly she worked at also printed other area newspapers - And I think that in the early 1970s , newspapers were still printed by the : hot lead : method , though I suppose a version technologically advanced from the one of it you see in 1940s movies .

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[quote="ASS-P"]...My father was in the (radio and TV) news business - I remember being at his office on election Night , 1970 , and a whole block of tetetype machines were pounding away !
My mother was in news , also - In the early 70s , IIRC , the local twice??p-weekly she worked at also printed other area newspapers - And I think that in the early 1970s , newspapers were still printed by the : hot lead : method , though I suppose a version technologically advanced from the one of it you see in 1940s movies .


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yes. I suppose newsrooms would have used teletypes well into the seventies, or even eighties.
Like reel-to-reel tape recorders were vital to the radio business until around the year 2000, because of the need to do precise editing by physical cut-and-splice (with razor and sticking tape). That even though consumers stopped using reel-to-reels when cassettes came out in circa 1969.

Digimon virtual pets.

I remember having to prime a pump.

tape machine record/playback head/tape path degaussers

quadruplex 2" videotape machines

photographic developer chemicals.

chocolate moo

I am not sure what all has been mentioned so far, but I will add some.

the little window (called a wing) that opened horizontally in front of the front side windows on cars

toys in cereal (not sure if many do that anymore)

Burger Chef (yes, there was a large hamburger chain besides McDonald's and Burger King)

medium format film cameras (or any film camera for that matter including 8mm motion picture cameras)

mechanical watches (there are still some made)

Black Forest cuckoo clocks (still in business but pricey)

persimmon wood golf clubs such as the driver (seems like they are all metal these days)

hard rubber and soft rubber bowling balls (and real maple wood bowling lanes)

I could go on and on

infinity servo-static loudspeaker system