I still regularly use
friction shifters
fountain pen
pentel pencil
Omega Seamaster
2 stroke engines
bread knife
paper maps
traditional telephone
matches
tin opener
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Great products that modern technology has made redundant
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Human beings
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LOL kcr - plenty fanboys of that shite on here!
TJ - even on your alfine?
No doubt it's been posted, but here's mine:
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What do I use regularly then that's old fashioned..? Hmm.
Paper maps occasionally (usually as backup though)
CDs (ok so not that old fashioned yet)
An Orange 5 from 2007*
A single core AMD Athlon 2700, quite old by PC standards
That's about it really, we are pretty modern chez Grips. Oh and as for tin openers - there are still plenty of tins out there without the ring pull.
*joke
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anyone say drawing board yet ?
Adrian newsy might disagree with you on that one
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Sorry... there may be a few subjective instances where vinyl wins out but records were a pain in the arse. Prone to scratching, you had to handle them carefully, they wore out, players were fickle delicate things,
My CD player broke (yet again) the other day so I'm back listening to vinyl, and can confidently assert that...
1. It sounds better. More dynamic, richer - the stuff people usually say is true IME.
2. Record players are more robust than CD players (I have dropped this turntable several times and it's still going strong, CD players fail all by themselves).
3. You might scratch records, I don't think I ever have and I have hundreds of them. Never worn one out either. CDs scratch much easier IME.Posted 4 months ago # -
I do believe that Stihl have been playing around with 4-strokes for a while.
can't get them to work...............
treated myself to a new set of rotrings last month - nothing beats them
using a 'safety' razor blade to correct errors on drawings.
The smell of amonia in the morning. Having to copy A0 drawings on site. Happy days
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Outdoorsnapper - I received a letter from the hospital only a few weeks ago that had Tipp-ex on it. Thought I had gone back in time or something!!
Rachel
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Cassette tapes. I remember making compilation tapes for long car journeys. Hours spent in front of the hifi copying from tape to tape or CD to tape cos our car (in fact most cars!) only had tape decks.
The drawing boards and plastic template shapes posted above remind me of Art/Design classes at school...
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I bet you take far better care of records than CDs though, it's how we are brought up. And CD players don't get fluff on the stylus. CD players do have replaceable heads but you don't see racks of them in hifi shops like you used to with styli so I can only assume they are more reliable.
I've got CDs that are covered in scratches and still play fine. Someone I knew also snapped one clean in half, glued it back together and it still played. I've wiped heaven knows how much toddler related goo off CDs and DVDs too.
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Fax Machines
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Another one here that still regularly uses some of this redundant tech.
Fountain pen(s - I have around 30).
Mechanical pencil(s - again a big collection of Pentel, OHTO (the Super Promecha is awesome), Rotring, etc.).
Clutch pencils.
Bread knife.
Vinyl (also have CDs and minidiscs but have recently ditched all my cassettes).slainte
rob
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The overhead projector - the one that used acetates to project from? Don't miss lugging round a folder containing all the acetates for a 5 day training course...
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Micrrofiche readers, or has that been said. Peering at there scratched image to find engine parts is not missed
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Yeah, cassette tapes, TDK C90s (CrO2 if you were feeling flush) with painstakingly sequenced compilations and hand-written track listings.
@binners, there is a small army of people who still use b+w enlargers, film and paper, much of it made by Ilford. Unlike slide projectors, and this stuff.
Cowgum! A friend of mine, now retired, used Cibachrome prints from slides, Letraset and Cowgum to create proofs for book covers and magazine artwork.
My dad had a Gestetner and a hefty long-carriage typewriter. When the Amstrad PCW arrived (1986?) he didn't need the red correction fluid.
Wouldn't microfiche readers be needed for existing newspaper and museum archives?
Vinyl's not dead: http://www.whathifi.com/news/vinyl-sales-increase-55-in-2011
Fax machine is still used at my work, mainly for net-phobic farmers who leave all paperwork to the last minute (especially paying invoices).
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Common sense. Product of evolution, now almost unheard of.
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Ratchet screwdrivers - the ones about a foot long that you push and they do the screw up or down. Not seen one since cordless screwdrivers came out.
Also, cars that need servicing every 1000 miles, door hinges oiling every week, tyre pressures checking, head under the bonnet every other day, tweaking the choke to get it going on a cold day, etc etc.
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Yankee screwdrivers! I know of a few still in use.
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childrens Imagination.
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The fax machine is also still in use in banking - the entire Libor loan market is still fax based.
I still use an automatic watch, I doubt I'll ever go to quartz. I also listen to vinyl and hope to inherit my parents' collection imminently as they've disposed of their turntable.
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mircofiche is still used in archives
we've got two rooms at uni with drawing boards and desks - the architects and construction students have to learn how to draw by hand before they use software
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Definitely audio cassette. Doing a compilation and giving one to a young lady was the easiest way of letting her know you were interested.
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Definitely audio cassette. Doing a compilation and giving one to a young lady was the easiest way of letting her know you were interested.
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Bic biro, for hand-rewinding said cassettes.
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Years ago at work we had a sort of microfiche thing, but the thing with the images on was in a cassette that was loaded like a film. There was a huge stack of these films (100-200) and a book.
If you needed a buy something, say a flange washer, you'd look in the book for flange washers, where you'd be told which film to load. On the film was all the catalogs from everyone who made flange washers.
It had a self loading mechanism that grabbed the end and fed it in, then you had a fast forward control to get to the frame you wanted.
Every few weeks the supply would come around with new indexes and films.
Just can't remember what it was called.
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Got to agree with Zokes earlier in regards to Vinyl. I have finally had to make the switch from Vinyl records to using mp3's for DJ'ing. Luckily i still have the control using a vinyl, but they are timecode ones and involves the laptop being connected to my turntables.
Still sounds good tho
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Nothing on a computer makes a satisfying "clunk" anymore. These mincey usb connectors and disk drives have removed all the fun out of loading data.
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The muzzle loading cannon
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The Overhead Projector
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Ah, microfiche. I remember when I was a trainee and companies house was next door to the office. We'd order the fiche and I'd go round, pick it up and print what I wanted off it.
Speaking to current trainees about how easy they have it with electronic searches made me feel old enough but the follow up question "what's a microfiche" made it so much worse.
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I really miss filling one of these with a playlist for the car
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Razzle, Escort, Men only....
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Not a product as such, but the library has more or less ceased to exist as a physical entity for me. I've been maybe 3 times in the last 5 years, my job 15 years ago would have meant being there every day.
Of course the library still exists, and has been dramatically augmented by digitisation - I use the online library each day. But physically going to a building called the library and sitting down to read something has completely disappeared as an activity for me. Loads of the smaller libraries in universities have now shut, with resources all being centralised in 1 or 2 megalibraries.
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