12 technology products that time forgot - BT
For dear old Freako, this lists 10 devices that people (other than me) no longer use.
Now where did I put that Windoze 3.11 install floppy? Oh. It's next to the crt monitor near the fax machine.
Still use a netbook, irritating though it is.
Damn thing slows to a crawl looking for M$ updates.
Fax machine: still got two, one of which uses ink cartridges you can't buy any more, the other uses thermal paper.
Got shedloads of calculators.
Gutted that the ancient Casio scientific ones died after a mere 20 years or so.
The modern ones use a different syntax which pisses I off somewhat.
CRT tellies: lots. You can get really cheap ones at the side of the road these days. They're ok if you dry 'em out.
Voice recorder: got one that uses cassette tapes. Last used to irritate the tulipe out of the dissector of human remains during a "communication meeting".
I put some 35mm film in a camera last year. Haven't taken any photos though.
Never rented a film.
Got a couple of MP3 players. The rubber covered one has gone unpleasantly sticky.
Two alarm clocks on the bedside "table": one is a LED clock from about 1978, the other is a travelling LCD alarm clock from about 1999.
Don't use satnav. Got maps instead.
Sometimes use floppies. Got usb floppy drives. And machines with 5.25" drives. Both 1.2Mb & 360k.
For dear old Freako, this lists 10 devices that people (other than me) no longer use.
Now where did I put that Windoze 3.11 install floppy? Oh. It's next to the crt monitor near the fax machine.
Still use a netbook, irritating though it is.
Damn thing slows to a crawl looking for M$ updates.
Fax machine: still got two, one of which uses ink cartridges you can't buy any more, the other uses thermal paper.
Got shedloads of calculators.
Gutted that the ancient Casio scientific ones died after a mere 20 years or so.
The modern ones use a different syntax which pisses I off somewhat.
CRT tellies: lots. You can get really cheap ones at the side of the road these days. They're ok if you dry 'em out.
Voice recorder: got one that uses cassette tapes. Last used to irritate the tulipe out of the dissector of human remains during a "communication meeting".
I put some 35mm film in a camera last year. Haven't taken any photos though.
Never rented a film.
Got a couple of MP3 players. The rubber covered one has gone unpleasantly sticky.
Two alarm clocks on the bedside "table": one is a LED clock from about 1978, the other is a travelling LCD alarm clock from about 1999.
Don't use satnav. Got maps instead.
Sometimes use floppies. Got usb floppy drives. And machines with 5.25" drives. Both 1.2Mb & 360k.
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