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kleinbl00  ·  4674 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Encyclopedia of Obsolete Skills
More "esoteric" or "arcane" than "obsolete." There are lots of people who still take pride in knowing how to balance a tone arm or adjust dwell on a distributor. It's just that their skills are no longer required by the mainstream.

'course, a lot of those always were. "Align the heads on a floppy disk" is something near nobody ever did ever.