Comments on: Blast from the Past: Vintage Technologies That We No Longer Use

By: Brixter

Brixter — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 13:19:05 +0000

Aw how nostalgic, I saw one 8 inch floppy disk in my college and I was amazed on how huge it was compared to the standard floppy disk at that time. Now we have portable HDD, who’s laughing now.

By: AE2CS

AE2CS — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:01:34 +0000

Ham or Amateur Radio is still in use. Amateur Radio technologies include digital modes, new digital codecs, satellites… there continue to be areas in Amateur Radio that inspire innovation in the commercial world.

Ham radio unto itself is not a technology. Lets also not forget the amateur operators who provided communications (when all other systems were down) during recent disasters like 9/11 and hurricane Katrina.

You should have left that one out…

By: anna maria lopez lopez - anna-OM-line.com

anna maria lopez lopez - anna-OM-line.com — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:18:03 +0000

OMG! I must be very old because I have most of the mentioned “vintage technologies” at home! VHS, Cassete tapes, Vinyls player,transistor radio, Discman,Laser disc player, Walkman, floppys,zip-drive,dial-up modems, typewriters, various CRT monitors …etc , and even now I am wearing on my wrist a Casio Calculator watch ( golden Databank model ) .

I must admit I am tired of new tiny glossy style, I LOVE BIG SQUARED BUTTONS! please come back!

anna
Auto-confessed vintage & retro lover

By: r4 ds

r4 ds — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:01:45 +0000

Should I be concerned that all of these things seem “normal” to me. Bringing back memories of my younger years. Really… BETA was MUCH BETTER than VHS!!! And tape backups… Whoa… You were a fool if you didn’t backup on tape!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:06:26 +0000

Actually the apostrophe is fine in this case because there are letters missing from “Assistant” (what the A stands for) and it’s a matter of personal preference. Not like when people write things like “carrot’s”!

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:02:01 +0000

“…I received a promo copy of the Ting Ting’s album on vinyl, …”

I hope you burned it :p

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:00:24 +0000

Indeed. There has actually been an increase in vinyl production since 2007 and I’m now seeing more and more non-dance tracks and albums for sale on vinyl in regular music shops like HMV and Virgin.

By: Phill

Phill — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:33:14 +0000

Yeah I had one of these. It was actually pretty cool. It was not a computer at all really, but was a data bank, similar to the Casio one shown below it. The functions were actually exactly the same. You did not actually wear the watch with the keyboard on it, as the picture shows. You wear the watch on its own, and that only has the 4 buttons to allow you to retrieve data. To add or edit data, you took off the watch, and connected it to the keyboard. So the keyboard was a seperate unit entirely, and you would carry it around in your pocket or bag until you needed it. This way, the watch looked a little more stylish than the typical calculator watch style data-bank. The model shown here is the really early plastic one…there were some quite nice chrome/silver ones soon after this.

By: Elizabeth Kaylene

Elizabeth Kaylene — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:19:17 +0000

Why is this called “Vintage Technologies That We No Longer Use” when quite a good chunk of these are still in use today?

By: Fill

Fill — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:52:52 +0000

10 of these include “still in use” or “still used today” in the descriptions, which seems to contradict the subject of the article? :’) Still, fun read.