11-03-10 – Defunct

People still use answering machines and VCRs but I definitely consider them defunct or archaic. Archaic things still work they just have been replaced or upgraded with something else.

i programmed my VCR for the shows i didn’t want to miss this week about 2 hours ago. but my answering machine is digital so that’s ok isn’t it?

So like I have two tape measures. One is ollllld, wooden and folds up. I also have one of those newer kind that wind up.. can i put them both in a shot to show old and new? or are we looking for just the old?

This proved to be more of a challenge than I originally thought. I finally got my three, but it was difficult to get three I liked. Whether anyone else will like them is to be seen. There are no Bs to speak of. Well, maybe one B.

… an electronics packrat … deciding which piece of archaic “junk” to photograph …

TUBES.

/everyone knows REAL radios glow in the dark. At least, that’s what all the white-haired crusty guys at the HAMfests say on their t-shirts.

TUBES.

I love the glow of tubes! Building a nixie clock is another thing high on my want-to-do list.

I had planned on taking a shot of my Heathkit H8 computer (that still works as far as I know) and its corresponding H19 terminal and H14 printer, all built as kits way back when. But so far the search has proved elusive and would involve completely unloading and repacking a storage closet to access. I think I’m going to have to settle for a little later model.

I don’t have an early calculator, but somewhere in one of those boxes I do have a 4-bit processor (Rockell R6500, forerunner to the 6502 used in the original Apples) experimenter’s board.

… an electronics packrat … deciding which piece of archaic “junk” to photograph …

TUBES.

For added points, you could arrange them in a series…

Wah, wah, wa’a’a’ahhhh

I’m sure yours is excellent. 😥 😛

Is that the “Wah, wah, wa’a’a’ahhhh” of adult characters in the Peanuts cartoons, or rather the one from Debbie Downer on SNL?

//context is important.