I worked in the music industry when the Alesis ADAT came out.Yep. Remember high-fidelity audio on VHS tapes? There have been a bunch of interesting, dead-end technologies. There are YT channels devoted to that stuff.
We still use IBM Selectric II's almost daily. And by we, I mean the older folks in the building who can't figure out how to mail merge and print to a laser printer.Back in the day I used to repair just about every make of typewriter there was and
also printers , shredders and Panasonic fax machines.
Anyone have a IBM Selectric typewriter that needs repair as I have a ton of parts in my old tool case.LOL
Just because people stop using them doesn't mean you discs don't work anymore. I still have about 50 HD-DVD's that we watch often. Same for Blu-Ray and regular DVD. The only drawback is HD-DVD players are hard to find nowadays but I have enough to get by.I am concerned, because DVD/BluRay seems to becoming an endangered species due to streaming.
Not too many BluRay manufacturers left now.
I have a a bunch of DVD/BluRay discs.
That's tough to quantify in meaningful ways, not in the least because LDs are analog and the superseding media have been digital.How is the resolution on the laserdiscs? I just can't remember.
old-school games
Well, yeah.Just because people stop using them doesn't mean you discs don't work anymore. I still have about 50 HD-DVD's that we watch often. Same for Blu-Ray and regular DVD. The only drawback is HD-DVD players are hard to find nowadays but I have enough to get by.
Are we just naming old technology now?Some technology is pretty good. I remember the transition from 8 track to cassettes. from cassettes to CD's. And even now, the transition from CD's to streaming and music apps. I even remember vinyl LP's! (still have quite a few!) I even remember the reel to reel machines. Only reason I remember them is because my Uncle Bill was into high end audio way back long ago. Very few people had reel to reel equipment, so it was kind of rare to see.
About ten or eleven years ago, I started using the Spotify music app on my computers, and even added it to my smart phone earlier this year. It pretty much makes my CD's obsolete! With it on my phone, I have that music source just about anywhere.
I can even remember the satellite radio services. I got XM satellite radio when it was just starting. I liked that I could tune to a station and it didn't matter where I was or how far I went, I always had that channel.
Are we just naming old technology now?
I remember my first computer was a Radio Shack TRS-80. My first computer that could do color cost me $50 from a friend with a drug habit and was a TRS-80+ and used audio cassettes to save data. I still have a few Zip disks floating around here somewhere, and when I moved 2 years ago, I got rid of all my 3-1/2 and 5-1/4" floppy disks.
There will be a paper jam if that is attempted.I understand now.
TURTLES are COMMIES waiting by FAX MACHINE to print a picture of a 1911.
I even remember vinyl LP's! (still have quite a few!)
I still have a few Zip disks floating around here somewhere
Hang on to them. Vinyl is making a come back.
I remember when those things were king. 100MB on a read/write disk!
100MB right up until the click of death. Then 0MB.I remember when those things were king. 100MB on a read/write disk!
I know I got burned. That disk is literally 3 feet from me right now. I keep it around as a reminder to never trust computer tech that much, ever again.100MB right up until the click of death. Then 0MB.
I know! The last time at WalMart, they had an entire section of new LP's. So cool.
I still have a record player in my office here at the house. There are sometimes on Friday or Saturday nights, when hanging out here on TGT, I will play some of my old LP's on it.