Great products that modern technology has made redundant

Digging around in one of my draws I found my old 35mm Rolli camera. great little thing brilliant pictures, kind of redundant.

Any others

Horses.

Minidisc

Gramaphone.
Strange you should mention the A-Z as I bought a couple before Christmas…

Carbon paper (for those of certain age!)

encyclopaedias

Newspapers (coming)

Carbon paper (for those of certain age!)

Which means you’ll remeber the name of the machine they used to use for school handouts.. I think it was the spirit copier or something like that, no?

I think it was the spirit copier or something like that, no?

gestetner

Razzle

Humans?

Suntour xc pro

gestetner

Cool name. Was known as a bander in my grim northern town school.

Still using XC pro every day here thanks 🙂

A-Z is still going strong in our reality, at least. indispensable!

Maps? nah give me a map over sat nav anyday.

The fax machine
Singlespeeds and fixies 🙂

I think it was the spirit copier or something like that, no?

gestetner

No I think Gestetner was a different technology. I think “Banda” was the “spirit copier”.

Gestetner used “stencils” to print with ink. The stencils were usually typed. Banda used a master copy produced a bit like writing on carbon paper the wrong way up which then washed this ink onto the copies, banda was more suited to hand written masters, but could produce fewer copies before the “master” was depleted. It typically produced sheets with a blue/purple coloured ink on them, Gestetner used black ink. As I recall the paper used in the Banda was smooth and rough in Gestetner but not sure if that was just at my school.

Maps? nah give me a map over sat nav anyday.

I think they’re two different things.

Stoner – Member
Minidisc

I was going to say that.

8 track

Two stroke engines.

Linotype machines

Typewriters

Shorthand Notepads

Mini Disc, Ive got a sony recorder discs and a small mini disc player…. ebay here I come

Horses

😕 Not a product …

Maps aren’t redundant, just used less commonly.

Paper maps.

RISC OS 4

The slide rule.

Diaries

With all this Playstation and Wii nonsense nowadays I just wonder how many kids have lost out in their lives due to never having experienced this?

Although I take that back as it seems to have relaunched recently!

magazines

Bicycles

I was also going to say Minidisc – first thing that popped into my mind.

My 4 year old nephew got one of those Evil Kinevil things above for Christmas…

Two stroke engines.

Googles diesel chainsaws 😕

Leaf tea.

Matches.

Floppy discs – just thrown out an unused box full of them.

Two stroke engines

Not sure the leaf blower would work too well with a 4-stroke.

Edit: beaten to it.

Derwent Graphics F pencils, drawing boards.

Still use matches here for lighting my fire, those super long ones…

Derwent Graphics F pencils, drawing boards.

And don’t forget the beauty that is…

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Maps have not been fully replaced by GPS and I sincerely hope they never/doubt they will ever be.

The fact that a map will never run out of batteries, or be subject to the whims of the US govt, is something that I am very glad of.

Vinyl… That’s something that I think technology has replaced with something less good. Ok, MP3s and their players are smaller, lighter and can carry more music, but there’s something very personal about getting an EP or an LP out of its sleeve and giving it a go over with the velvet brush.

Listening to an LP on a turntable was almost like a story. You couldn’t really skip ahead to your favourite track and play that on repeat, you had to listen to the whole thing. One of my biggest regrets is selling my turntables. I still have the vinyl though.

*Sheds a tear*

So many people were not skilled with Letraset. Like using biros.

I think I miss Letratone even more.

don simon – Member

Which means you’ll remeber the name of the machine they used to use for school handouts.. I think it was the spirit copier or something like that, no?

Oh my, that’s just triggered a ‘smell’ memory & given me a huge school flashback!

Floppy discs – just thrown out an unused box full of them.

Please don’t! We’ve a lab full of machines whose only means of communicating is by floppy disc or dot-matrix printer…