[78-L] fwd: The Fading Sounds of Analog Technology

[Don Chichester]

In all seriousness, perhaps there ought to be an online Museum of Obsolete Sounds.
 
Don Chichester
 
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> Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 13:55:06 -0500
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> Not to forget car buyers' apparent demand for a clock-like speedometer which only vaguely indicates speed, instead of a 
> precise digital display. But if a clock with hands was on the dashboard, they'd want that to be digital! Then there's the 
> utterly silly, fake, mechanical-looking "gear shifter" on the floor of cars with automatics which are not only shifted 
> electrically, but are way up in the engine compartment, nowhere near the fake handle.
> 
> 
> Actually, some MTA supervisory types tried to tell me that I needed "a real watch" for the job, not the things with hands 
> which I wore. I assured them that I was capable of telling time with the Big Hand and the Little Hand. (Which brings to 
> mind a little conflict I had with Miss Lunetta, my First-Grade teacher: She was displeased when I corrected her "First Hand 
> & Second Hand" nonsense with "Hour Hand, Minute Hand, and Second Hand". haha)
> 
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> > And sometimes the analog technology will refuse to completely go away and
> > quietly die. I remember the early digital watches back in the very early
> > 1970's, the ones with the red LED numbers that only showed the time when you
> > pushed a button in order that battery life would be preserved. At that
> > time I recall an editorial in a electronics trade rag that predicted the total
> > obsolescence of analog time pieces in the next few years and the
> > soon-to-be-anachronistic terms such as 'clockwise' and 'counter-clockwise' (or
> > 'anti-clockwise' to some) and 'clock in', 'clock out', 'quarter past the hour',
> > etc. That didn't exactly happen...
> >
> > Mike in Phoenix (a retired electronics engineer)
> >
> > 
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