Dead and dying technologies

[Vincent]

that_punk_guy wrote:
McCain's Micro-Chips.

:lol:
Are they going to be replaced with real cardboard? ;-)

[that_punk_guy]

:lol:

[FluffyMcDeath]

@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.

 

[Karlos]

Vincent wrote:

that_punk_guy wrote:
McCain's Micro-Chips.

:lol:
Are they going to be replaced with real cardboard? ;-)

:lol:

It's true - one of the few food products where the packaging tasted better!

[bloodline]

Pot noodle and shredded wheat also spring to mind...

[Karlos]

Hmmm. Pot Noodle < - > Not Poodle; frankly I wonder if the latter can really be true :lol:

[gizz72]

Greetings,

The Amiga - ..

Any technology on this decade: In the next decade the technology of *this decade, that include *all PC'S, would certainly be obsolete by the next decade or so, naturally. As the old saying goes: Nothing lasts forever Well, maybe only diamond. :-)
If I would put something in my time capsule I'd put all my Amiga stuff in it and let the future generation dig it out in mint condition. If I can design a better time capsule, that is. Unless People would be obsolete!@!@@! Pretty scary thought there! :nervous:

The earth will be obsolete. Replaced by a New Earth. Then the old one will just be destroyed *Billions of years now.

Anyway, back on topic, I'd just use the present and past technology to it's limits or adapt past technology to present needs/technology. To me, that's more fun than installing a new WindowsOS [insert new version here] to a new Pentium[Insert new CPU version here].:lol:

Where is the 'FUN' in all that? It's better to have fun than being 'IN' with technology IMHO. :-)

Regards,

Gizz72

[the_leander]

I think that CRTs will be around for quite a while to come, maybe not in things such as TV's, but certainly in things requiring ultra high presision such as video editing or commercial photography. I have yet to see ANY LCD screen that comes close to a high end CRT.

I think perhaps Plasma might become more popular as time goes on, certainly from what I've seen the picture quality is certainly as good as LCD, though in one shop recently I saw a plasma screen in a shop window in bright daylight, to say the picture was vibrant and sharp would be to do it a disservice. It was far in excess of anything I've yet seen in an LCD screen, and to top it all off, it was cheeper by half over the LCD screen sat next to it which looked in comparason, pants.

I think that whilst I'm loath to admit it, digital convergance might (finally) be starting to take shape.

I think that the whole server/ (reletively) dumb terminal setup may be making a comeback.

big arse server under the stairs, with something the size of those mini itx based systems in replacement for a full blown PC, a games console hooked up to it, maybe your stereo, and a couple of NAS drives dotted around the place.

I don't forsee the need for P4 toasters and fridges (though the latter would be interesting to see) but who knows.

The future will be interesting if nothing else.

[that_punk_guy]

Bah, I quite like Shredded Wheat. Well, I used to.

As for dying technologies, I just bought a Hi8 Handycam on eBay. :-D

[T_Bone]

Dying technologies:

The Telephone.

Not because it was time to go, but because phone companies are still charging roughly the same for basic phone service they did in the 70's, and offer you the same simple crummy 2-wire connection.

Magnetic tape.

[PMC]

Crap mobile ringtones...

Back in 1987, people used to say that my Speccy +2 sounded tinny and horrible.  

Fast forward 18 years and you too can pay for the privilidge of downloading a truncated, tinny and unrecognisable version of popular chart music to play on your mobile when it rings, thus guaranteeing that everyone else in the shop/train/bus will think you're a total saddo.

Which is exactly why my mobile plays the theme to Rainbow or Fraggle Rock... Doh!

[Speelgoedmannetje]

My mobile phone has an equal beep as a backwards driving truck
I had a newer telephone with polyphone ringthingies, but I wasn't satisfied with that thing mainly because of the lousy battery durability. And that ringtone I used on that one (also the most simplistic) sounded like a fire alarm.  
(polyphone) ringtone melodies is annoying bullcrap.

[Dandy]

KennyR wrote:
...
The LP: I still remember vinyl records, I'm ashamed to say. The CD format is technically far superior and offers stereo,
...
LP is dead.

Are you trying to say that LP's did not offer "Stereo"?
Hmmm - All my 500+ LP's are "stereo"...

And you can't really say they're dead, as you can still buy new LP's with new music (at least you still can here in Cologne).

Some independent artists publish their music exclusively on venyl LP's!

KennyR wrote:
The audio tape: Crackly, ...

Yes, if the music you recorded came from an old, crackly venyl record...

KennyR wrote:
...fuzzy, ...

Depended on the equipement you used ...

KennyR wrote:
...mono, ...

No.
Definitely wrong.
I still have an dual track tapedeck (Uher 22 HiFi spezial)from the early sixties down in the cellar and guess what?
It's stereo.

KennyR wrote:
...and offering less quality than radio, ...

Oh boy - what kind of tape recording maschine did you have back then?
(Or should I ask what happened to your memory?)
 ;-)
B.T.W.:
Most of the music played by radio stations back in these days came eigther from magnetic tapes or from venyl disks...

So why do you insist in the broadcasted radio sound being superior to the sound quality of the source (be it magnetic tapes or venyl disks)?

That's not quite clear to me - you should explain that!

KennyR wrote:
...audio tapes are hardly ever used any more except for recording, ...

 :-?
For what else do you think have they been used in the earlier days then, if not for recording?

KennyR wrote:
...and digital is replacing them there too.

Well - I recently bought 3 stereo VCR's - the last one in the week before christmas.

And I will go for a brandnew cassette tape deck next week.
I do so because here in Europe (Germany) private copies are legally allowed as long as they are analogue and as long you did not circumvent a copy protection mechanism.

I hope all individuals capable of thinking anywhere in the world, where similar law is valid, follow my example for their own sake...

[odin]

Dandy wrote:
I hope all individuals capable of thinking anywhere in the world, where similar law is valid, follows my example for his own sake...

Er...are you saying the police is going to knock on my door because I have a bunch of copied CDs? Don't you think you are just a tad paranoid? :-).

[Dandy]

odin wrote:
Er...are you saying the police is going to knock on my door because I have a bunch of copied CDs?

If someone blows the whistle on you - who knows?

odin wrote:
Don't you think you are just a tad paranoid? :-).

No - just "clean" and on the "safe side"...

[bloodline]

Most of the music played by radio stations back in these days came eigther from magnetic tapes

Magnetic Tape does not just mean cassette tape. The Analogue tapes we sued to use in the studio ran at 3 time the speed of a cassette tape and recorded to an area 4 or 5 times larger. Also the magnetic media was some chrome mixture.

Professional Audio Magnetic tape is almost as good as a 24bit 96Khz digital recording :-D