Great products that modern technology has made redundant

Blimey MF. That’s going back a bit! Anyone remember these now-redundant things

DP

argggh I was liking this but work somehow blocks some images so no idea what Fanylion posted.

It was an Agfa Gaaevart repro machine – it looked a fully loaded one with motorised focus on it. Does anyone remember the halftone sheets that you overlaid onto the contact papers to create halftones.

Those really were the days.

I still have my linen tester in my drawer too 🙂

the carburettor

oh yes. I’ve used half tone contact sheets on the flatbed.

I was looking for my eye glass yesterday but can’t find it. Mines marked up in point sizes!

And this might alude to my profession. Weichmann Curves anyone? At least that how I think you spell it.

you chaps are missing out alvin ellipse guides

how about a grant enlarger

and some rubylith tape

Common sense.

The trebuchet

The trebuchet

That’s not redundant:
http://androidos.in/2011/12/cm9-trebuchet-launcher-now-available-for-download/

😉

mastiles_fanylion – Member
argggh I was liking this but work somehow blocks some images so no idea what Fanylion posted.

It was an Agfa Gaaevart repro machine – it looked a fully loaded one with motorised focus on it. Does anyone remember the halftone sheets that you overlaid onto the contact papers to create halftones.
Those really were the days.

I still have my linen tester in my drawer too

Hah, me too it’s still here next to me on my desk, hasn’t left my side..

Remember dish developing and watching the dot under red light?

Slides? Dear gods, I remember countless evenings trying to avoid the dreaded holiday slideshow. It’s all changed now though, just pass someone a laptop, or post them a CD and you can make sure they see your whole holiday.

Digital really did change things though. Film made you think about shots a lot more than happens now. I think it was the cost. You don’t need to worry about taking a lot of photos to get a single decent one. I still remember feeling the magic of the first time I developed and printed a photo I had taken with a Canon AE1 on Ilford FP4. I think I still have it somewhere.

Back in the days before floppy disks – there was something reassuring about paper tape that you just don’t get from memory sticks.

and from the days before GPS – the Decca navigation system could give your (rough!) position at sea.

TippEx

And the internal combustion engine

26″ Wheels by the sound of this[/url]

some of this stuf I still use.

Got a proper telephone with a dial and a bell, ditched the indexed shifting on my bike, Use paper maps, still even occasionally use an a-z

anyone say drawing board yet ?

Actually.. I don;t miss the drawing board… that smell of amonia when doing copies for it..yuck…

Cowgum was a fav of mine.
Still use a linen tester every single working day.

2 strokes still very important as 4 strokes don’t offer certain characteristics eg good weight
Yep that purple copier stuff was Banda

Deccas always known as “Desmond” on the boats I used to sail on, they would always want to switch chains just at the moment we were trying to find a buoy!

I still regularly use

friction shifters
fountain pen
pentel pencil
Omega Seamaster
2 stroke engines
bread knife
paper maps
traditional telephone
matches
tin opener

Human beings

LOL kcr – plenty fanboys of that shite on here!

TJ – even on your alfine?

No doubt it’s been posted, but here’s mine:

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

anyone say drawing board yet ?

Adrian newsy might disagree with you on that one

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.

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

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

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…

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.

Fax Machines

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

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…

Micrrofiche readers, or has that been said. Peering at there scratched image to find engine parts is not missed