[vcf-midatlantic] Re: A bit of archaic terminology

I'll add two more: - A Dr Who episode in the 1980s showed the Master pulling a recording of all of history out of the TARDIS... it was a rather convoluted tape carrier, as big as he was. (I think the idea was it was supposed to be like a map, so you'd know where in history you were... but it was a tape. Even Isaac Asimov's stuff set thousands of years in the future tended to assume everything would be on tapes, or in some cases microfilm.) - We "turn out" the lights, even though they generally haven't been gas-powered since the nineteenth century. G.