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Re: Dead and dying technologies
« on: December 19, 2004, 11:00:31 PM »

@KennyR:

Both The LP: and The audio tape: (reel tot reel and cassette) were stereo in their ultimate incarnations.

Re: The floppy disk: Standard 1.44 Mb [...] that was a big one. I remember the 5 1/4 inch that held, what was it? 350 Kb or thereabouts.

The incandescent bulb:  - Good riddance!

The CRT screen: and good riddance again.

but yeah, times change.

Black and White television? How I miss it. Well, not really.

Film is becoming a specialty kind of thing. If the pixel densities on cameras keep going up, film will disappear.

Answering machines were big once, but now every telephone service provider offers voice mail. The home machines are still around for those that really want one, but I don't know many people that have them anymore.