[78-L] 78s (sort of) and Cylinders in the news

[Michael Biel]

David Lennick wrote:
> What shoudl be extinct, but aren't, are moronic wanking articles like this one. Jee-zus! These technologies are still in use because they happen to work..in many instances, far better than their replacements. Ask any doctor's office how often they use the fax machine..in fact I'm asked for faxes regularly myself. The only thing I may use the typewriter for is typing waybills, but it's still kept in good repair and used regularly.
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In the late 70s I took some of my broadcasting students on a tour of  
NYC media and noticed in the WOR radio newsroom they had several manual 
typewriters.  They still remembered the great blackout of 1965!!  I 
suppose they could now use battery operated laptops, but without 
printers they would still have to read their newscast off of the screen 
of the computer it was written on if the blackout took out the wi-fi. 

And yes I know our wind-up acoustical machines will play in the blackout 
indefinately without needing a battery recharge, but there are some 
hand-crank emergency radios that have phone and ipod charging attachments. 
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Is that an i-pad or your house/apartment/place to crash?

Mike (sent from my computer, attached to a land-line, in my pad) Biel  
mbiel at mbiel.com

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>> From: agp2176 at verizon.net
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>> Came across two somewhat, shall we say, old recording stuff. newsy 
>> things today.
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>> First is web page at Network World magazine. The story is called 10 
>> Technologies That Should Be Extinct (But Aren't). Take look at this page:
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>> http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2010/070710-extinct-technologies.html#slide6