Favorite obsolete technology

[HopeHoops]

Yes, I'll include an "Other" choice.

Disclaimer: I have a LaserDisc player and a turntable with a strobe for timing hooked up to my stereo along with two VCRs, two DVD players, a dual deck cassette deck, and a 6-disc CD changer with a tuner, amp, and equalizer.

I also have working equipment for everything listed below except for reel-to-reel and 9-track.

[kedrys]

1. My high-end turntable is hooked up to the rest of the high-end AV stack

in the living room. We listen to vinyls about twice a month, if not more - all albums we haven't been able to find in any other format, and besides, why even look? :)

[HopeHoops]

3. Hell, even the ones I have on CD I still listen to on vinyl - there's just something more genuine.

But to be honest, I do have a shitload of albums that will NEVER find their way into electronic form unless I do it myself.

[Swede]

5. I agree,there is something about vinyl.

I can't really put it into words,but there is.

[HopeHoops]

6. It isn't "sterile". It's that simple.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

2. A single remotr to turn my tv on.

[Major Nikon]

4. Pointy bras

[HopeHoops]

7. E-FUCKING-GADS!

[Major Nikon]

8. They had to be careful about poking someone's eye out

On the plus side, they could have both hands occupied and still dial a rotary phone.

[HopeHoops]

9. (rim shot)

[Lionel Mandrake]

19. !

[Tom Ripley]

10. Vacuum Tubes

[Lionel Mandrake]

18. Vacuum tubes sound better than transistors,

just as vinyl sounds better than CDs
and silver wire sounds better than copper.

Ask anybody who sells overpriced audio equipment. :evilgrin:

[Odin2005]

11. rotatory phones.

[Turbineguy]

12. The Curta calculator

[Curmudgeoness]

13. VHS tapes.

I like recording things to watch later, then record over them----and over them and over them.

But this was a tough call, I also mourn for rotary phones (I liked the ring much better and fewer people dialed wrong numbers) and vinyl records.

[Skittles]

17. SAME HERE

we don't have to PAY to friggin' record on VHS :mad:

[femmocrat]

20. My choice also.

I hate that I can't keep the stuff I record on the DirecTV recorder. I have quite a collection of VHS tapes!

[dimbear]

14. Woodstove.

There's an atavistic pleasure in it. Comingling with the ancestors around a wood fire. Practicing some simple musical instrument too. And staying warm.

[fizzgig]

24. that's my dad's primary source of heat

has been for more than 20 years. i love sleeping on his couch in the winter :)

[kentauros]

15. I always liked LaserDisc

I even have Fantasia on LaserDisc, the one example of that format that I own. I just don't have a player in order to watch it :P

[HopeHoops]

26. Try eBay - there are usually a lot of them up for sale.

[kentauros]

28. Okay, thanks

:)

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

16. The first fax

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bain_(inventor)
Giant ass thing that stood bigger than a man. Was before the phone even.

Then there are stone axes.


Wax cylinders for audio recording...no one needs clear sound playback especially for all that noise out there today

[IcyPeas]

21. 8 inch floppy disks

[Charlemagne]

22. Clipper Ship

I have an unhealthy thing for the Royal Navy in its glory days.


Rule Britannia.

[oneshooter]

29. Clipper ships were not military, civilian cargo ships, FAST cargo ships. n/t

[sakabatou]

23. Audio casette tapes

I listened to so much from the tapes.

[oneshooter]

25. Matchlock muskets. n/t

[Throd]

27. the 1967 Oldsmobile 442