Speaking of relics

mindful webworker - digital nostalgia

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Wed 2014 Apr 30, 9:04am

» Speaking of relics. Of a different sort. Bet Vic invented some of them.
»http://www.ufunk.net/en/techno/relics-of-technology/
Posted by: Anna Puma

Things shown I don't have lying around somewhere:
Big ol' mobile phone
Punch cards
Desk phone (have other dial types, tho)
Are those Betamax? Never had those. I think I have one old U-matic around somewhere.

Got all the rest.

78s? I've got a bunch.

No cylinders? My brother used to have a big collection.

Punched paper-tape? My first data storage system!!

And audiocassettes - I dont think anything in computing ever impressed me as much as the first time I saved/loaded data to ordinary audiocassette with my Shack Model I. It was all such cheap plastic toy stuff, but it worked! Computing! (I've upgraded some since. Still impressed.)

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relics