Devices that Time forgot.

[original PM]

We've got a microfiche reader in our bedroom.

Was that from before you could get a vcr so you could watch your erm instructional videos :$

[xoggoth]

Not true about Dictaphones AKA voice recorders. Modern ones are much smaller and more convenient than the smallest mobile phones.

[mudskipper]

Was that from before you could get a vcr so you could watch your erm instructional videos :$

Mr ms is into his genealogy. Lots of the records are still on fiche.

[original PM]

Which is a perfectly reasonable if disappointingly unsmutty reason :-(

[Sysman]

Netbooks - a neighbour had one which she used for surfing in the pub and I was impressed enough with it to want one. It was an ASUS I think and you could run server software on it. Not made any more, apparently.

Fax machine - last fax machine expired a day after its warranty ran out. Having seen the line of OTT cars outside the place it came from I wondered if they had programmed it to do that. Won the court case about the service contract they forced me into to get an economic repair. I sold it sharpish and didn't bother with another.

Calculators - haven't got one. If I were still doing accounting packages I'd be after a good desk calculator with a till roll, like the one I used to have (much got sold off cheap when I emigrated).

CRT tellies - still got a Sony Trinitron which when last aired was going strong. Expecting them to cut off anaiogue broadcasting before it packs up, but I haven't used it for a couple of years now.

Cameras - got shut of my SLR in the cash-strapped early 90s and have done with pocket sized point and shoot jobbies since then. Might treat myself to a DSLR this summer.

It must be nearly 30 years since I rented any videos.

Have an early iPod somewhere. The last time I used it was to catch up on some Radio 4 programme or other.

Alarm clocks. Got well and truly chucked off with the digital thing that works from a radio signal when it lost said signal and woke me up at something like 3 am. Got a battery powered one with a proper pair of bells on top that works fine. Darmstadt's point about the ticking noise noted, but I've got used to mine.

Satnav - never had it and therefore don't miss it.

Last floppy used was - ah yes, that would be the floppy that came with a hard disk circa 2004. Bloody Windows refused to copy it because it contained DR-DOS and as a result I never got the drive working. The git Gates owes me good money for that disk drive.

[xoggoth]

I've got an old floppy drive. Must get myself some Viagra.

[darmstadt]

Last floppy used was - ah yes, that would be the floppy that came with a hard disk circa 2004. Bloody Windows refused to copy it because it contained DR-DOS and as a result I never got the drive working. The git Gates owes me good money for that disk drive.

I think he owes a lot of people money...

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

I spent ******* years working with that OS only to see him drop it like a Guinness and curry filled belly....

[Project Monkey]

the teasmade

My parents had the one second from right in their bedroom. Used to put instand coffe and powdered milk in the teapot and wake up to perfect cafe latte in the morning. It was probably a late '60's design, but had a stange art deco stile.

[d000hg]

Not true about Dictaphones AKA voice recorders. Modern ones are much smaller and more convenient than the smallest mobile phones.

Yeah. Plus you don't have to unlock the phone, launch the dictaphone app each time... just press a button.