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Date: 2011-02-10 07:41 pm (UTC)There is an 8 track player in one of our camping vans. It actually still worked as of 3 years ago. Can't get new tapes for it though.
And we still have some 8" floppy disk drives. I much prefer my 16 GB thumb drive thank you very much. ;)
Not only do we Audio Reel to Reel, but Video Reel to Reel. Nah, we don't use either one any more, but I recently found my audio tapes, should probably get those transferred before they die.
Never owned a Betamax. By the time we finally decided to buy a machine, VHS had already won the war.
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Date: 2011-02-10 07:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-10 08:04 pm (UTC)I really didn't have the heart to tell her that this Shiny New Technology she had just discovered was a good ten years out of date.
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Date: 2011-02-10 08:13 pm (UTC)Can you still get 120mm film? I miss the joys of double exposure.
I can only find one of my dipping pens at present - but I have loads of nibs (and a quill-cutter and collection of goose feathers...)
I may still be living in the wrong century.
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Date: 2011-02-11 12:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-10 08:13 pm (UTC)If you'd done this poll a couple of days ago I could have counted the APS camera that was here. I have cine film editors here, do they count?
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Date: 2011-02-10 09:49 pm (UTC)The projector was thrown outlast month.
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Date: 2011-02-10 11:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-10 08:21 pm (UTC)I forgot that we have a film camera that takes those little cartridges .... it came in a cracker ...
The floppy disk drive is 3" (Amstrad PCW external drive).
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Date: 2011-02-10 09:16 pm (UTC)I do have a VCR player, but it's out of whack right now, and I need to replace it. I'm planning on getting a dual machine that will allow me to copy tapes to disc (I have too many video tapes to replace ALL of them with commercial discs).
I've kept all my records and hence the turn-table. Many of those recording have never been released on CD. Just can't find them. I still haven't gotten around to making transfers of them to play on newer machines.
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Date: 2011-02-10 10:32 pm (UTC)There might be a camera that takes those relatively new cassettes, that were quickly overtaken by digital cameras.
Somewhere out in the sun room, I think we have BBC 5.25" drive, though it no longer works.
The 8-track player was in our Volkswagen caravanette, and that went long ago.
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Date: 2011-02-10 11:47 pm (UTC)also, some of the hardware in your list, but won't specify on an open thread so not to get burgled for antiques!
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Date: 2011-02-11 12:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-11 11:38 am (UTC)Whereas dipping pens and nibs are still widely available from most art supply shops : they are not superceded, so much as being specialist items that some people like for specific tasks, in the same way that you can still buy paintbrushes, palette knives and drawing charcoal, even though to take a likeness, a camera is quicker and more accurate.
I have a couple dipping pens and nibs somewhere : I haven't used mine recently, but I know people do.
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Date: 2011-02-11 10:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-15 10:17 pm (UTC)I still use my dipping pen though, I like it.
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Date: 2011-03-26 11:19 pm (UTC)We don't have an 8-track, but do still have the 4-track we inherited from Gimli, which he used to use for recording the Taruithorn Singers stuff. I do own a record player (which plays 78s) but it is at my parents' house, along with my record collection, so I haven't included it. We *may* still have my original camera, which was a 120mm, still knocking around if we haven't got round to chucking it out, it was certainly around a few years ago.
My family never had a Betamax - our first player was a Video 2000 (an excellent format: recorded on both sides of the tape so effectively gave you long-play but with better quality before long-play was ever invented, displayed *actual time* while the tape played/recorded/rewound etc rather than meaningless numbers so much easier to figure out how to get to the bit of the program you wanted/ whether you had space to record another program etc. But sadly was never really in the running to win the format war.)
I agree with Bunn about dipping pens being now a specialist rather than an outdated technology and thus the odd one out in this poll.
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Date: 2011-03-26 11:28 pm (UTC)