amadeus
burning out his fuse out here alone
Assume in some capacity greater than infrequent or use-in-passing. Sorry if the list is a little jumbled!
What are these mystery relics you speak of?Of course I still use lots of even older technology, like pens and pencils.
I thought about adding 8” disks but they weren’t even around for that long in the private sector (though missile command used them until like 2015.)Things that should have been listed that I have used:
8" floppy disk
computer punch cards
computer paper tape
They’re great and all but in a lot of instances there are other newer technologies that have the capacity to do more in less time and at less cost.Most of them don't seem like "older technology" to me; they seem like wondrous technological advances.
Oh, there's no doubt about that. We are living through an era of astonishing technological progress.They’re great and all but in a lot of instances there are other newer technologies that have the capacity to do more in less time and at less cost.
or abaci ....seriously, we did have them in school when I was young...I bet they still doPoll doesn't have trigonometric (solar) clock :/