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Someone decided to sell us a copy of Gone With the Wind on *Betamax*. #movies #bookstore #obsoletetech #media #obsolete_media

A photo of Gone With the Wind on motherfucking Betamax.

Signal Bloom.
#ArtDigital #AnalogHorror #GlitchArt #BodyHorror #ObsoleteTech #VisualPoetry #MixedMedia #CursedImage #AI #AiArt #Midjourney #DisturbingArt #VHSVibes #DarkCollage

Floraison Parasite.
Téléviseur ancien affichant une masse organique tentaculaire, au centre d’un chaos pictural saturé de rouge, noir et textures de chair abstraite.
Old television displaying a tentacled organic mass, at the center of a chaotic visual filled with red, black, and abstract flesh textures.

Wired Nightmare.
#ArtDigital #HorrorArt #TechnoHorror #AnalogDreams #CreepyAesthetic #DarkSurrealism #ObsoleteTech #VisualShock #AiArt #DigitalArt #ArtisticMood #Midjourney

Cauchemar Connecté.
Peinture numérique dérangeante d’un vieux téléviseur fusionné avec des câbles organiques rouges.
Disturbing digital painting of an old television fused with red organic cables.

🖥️ Breaking news: Apple nerd finds 1994 recovery partition 🎉 on a dusty, ancient hard drive. Turns out, obsessing over obsolete tech was the ticket to unearthing another forgotten piece of "history." Who knew dusty old hard drives could be the time machines no one asked for? 🚀
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/03/apples-long-lost-hidden-recovery-partition-from-1994-has-been-found/ #AppleTech #Nostalgia #ObsoleteTech #DataRecovery #VintageComputing #TimeTravel #HackerNews #ngated

Dani Ploeger - Deserted Devices And Wasted Fences, everyday technologies in extreme circumstances

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3294

#deserteddevices #artistbook #videoart #videoartist #slideprojector #mediahistory #mediaarthistory #computerhistory #mediaarchaeology #retrocomputing #vintagetechnology #obsoletetech #deadmedia #digitalheritage #retrofuture #hacktivism #hacktivismo #hacktivist #hacking #digitalactivism #mediaactivism #commoning #communicationstrategies #ewaste #electronicwaste #ewasteart #criticaltheory #criticalinformationstudies #artsciencetechnology #analoguedigital

📟🤓 Intel's Pentium: breaking news from 1993—apparently, multiplying by three was such a Herculean task it required a Rube Goldberg machine of transistors. 🙄 Meanwhile, Ken Shirriffs continues his thrilling quest to make us all #nostalgia for obsolete circuitry. 🤔🔍
https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-multiplier-adder-reverse-engineered.html #IntelPentium #RubeGoldberg #ObsoleteTech #TransistorTales #HackerNews #ngated

#SRAM memory card 128KBYTE
Haven't really found out what and when it was used for.

#obsolete_media #ObsoleteTechnology #obsoletetech

@obsoletemediauk

A flat and partially silvery shiny card besides a 50 euro cents coin.

Backside of the card where the capacity is printed on

Discover the surprising resilience of outdated tech! 💾 From floppy disks to fax machines, some devices refuse to fade away in 2025. These relics still serve niche purposes in various industries, proving that not all old tech is dead yet! 🤖 Check out the full article for a nostalgic look at tech that just won't die! #TechHistory #ObsoleteTech #Innovation #Nostalgia 🔗 https://www.techradar.com/pro/from-floppy-disks-to-fax-machines-5-obsolete-piece-of-tech-that-do-not-want-to-die-in-2025
#newz

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I finally got rid of my collection of mile long RJ45 cords just a few years ago. Half of them had one or both prongs broken. 😵‍💫 IYKYK
#TrueStory #ObsoleteTech

From the abstract of a Review article from 2003 in J Cell Biol.

“A Flash feature accompanies this Mini-Review.”

Sigh... remember Adobe Flash?

#ObsoleteTech #LostKnowledge

@nytpu In theory, it should be possible to make single-shot 135 / 120 setups tho there usually isn't a good, turnkey option to just shove in a single image...

But a System that basically could do that (being like single film frames in like a dia frame) should be possible...

Maybe some open-back #MediumFormat cameras like a #PentaconSix can be loaded with just a single & short strip of 120?

Granted that's not compareable to #LargeFormatFilm but it would allow you to Level up before investing into expensive stuff and get a handle on it?

Also LFF has the disadvantage of being seen as "#ObsoleteTech" and thus there's very low quantity, but very high quality photographic sheets that thus have the associated premium to it...

One thing I'd love to see is a #LargeFormatCamera that can use the comparably cheaper and more mass produced #Xray #FilmSheets instead, as they are made with like a user-friendly caddy system and designed to provide afforable and fast to develop images without much manual labour...

And since these don't have digital sensor fields that get worn out by radiation they are extremely widespread with doctors, dentists and veterinarians...

I mean, fundamentally they still work the same way the original "Curies" as 1st gen X-ray setups worked, just more accurate, safer and efficient...

🖥️ Are you still using old command-line tools in Linux like screen, ifconfig, or netstat? It's time to upgrade! Check out our latest article where we dive into obsolete Linux tools and the modern alternatives that should be in your toolkit. Stay ahead with the best practices in the Linux ecosystem. 🐧

#Linux #OpenSource #SysAdmin #CommandLine #LinuxTools #ObsoleteTech #Upgrade #LinuxExpert

Is that a #Tapwave #Zodiac?

Y' know... that failed gaming PDA...

I mean it would make sense given that it's something portable yet unusual and that #Stargate #SG1 has a ton of COTS stuff being used as props and devices and for all intents amd purposes all it needs to do on camera is show either still images or play a video so it's not like it can't do both...

#EagleEyed #Observations #PDA #ObsoleteTech #FailedTech #Movies #TV #SciFi #Props

Samatha Carter (Played by Amada Tapping) holding a PDA (presumably a Tapwave Zodiac) as a tool in a scene of Stargate SG-1

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240510-floppy-disks-why-some-people-are-still-in-love-with-this-obsolete-computer-storage-technology
The last #floppydisk was made over a decade ago and doesn't even have enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, so why do some people still love using them?

Qui donc utilise encore des #disquettes ?
#obsoletetech

edited by Niek Hilkmann, Thomas Walskaar – Floppy Disk Fever, The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium

https://neural.it/2024/01/edited-by-niek-hilkmann-thomas-walskaar-floppy-disk-fever-the-curious-afterlives-of-a-flexible-medium/

#floppydisk #mediaarcheology #floppydiskfever #retrocomputing #vintagetechnology #computerhistory #obsoletetech #creativetechnology #digitalcultures #technoculture #analoganddigital #mediahistory #mediatheory #mediastudies
#bookreview #neuralarchive #neuralmag

https://archive.neural.it/init/default/show/3246

edited by Niek Hilkmann, Thomas Walskaar – Floppy Disk Fever, The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, book cover

Wow, I had no idea these were still in demand. I feel for the IT guy that has to buy these. #ObsoleteTech

Screenshot of an Amazon product page for CAT3 25-pair Amphenol connectors for telephones. You know the kind that were installed in the '70s and we started yanking out in the 2000s.

In which the author wraps pennies, a soon to be extinct activity. #pennies #obsoletetech

Thirteen rolls of pennies on a wooden table top. The pennies are wrapped in kraft wrappers printed in red.

This, children, is mysterious technology we used to use for our photographs. I tell you, one hour photo processing, when it finally arrived at the end of the last century was a *big* deal. #film #obsoletetech #35mm

A handful of 35mm film cassettes to the left of several sheets of negatives in plastic sleeves, against an unfinished wood table top

I’ve been interested in some quirky obsolete formats, one of them being DVD-RAM. I recently obtained a drive for fairly cheap and discovered a problem. The drives are interesting to say the least. The disk comes in a cartridge yet the drives uses a tray. To insert the cartridge you place it in the tray and then press the eject button. The tray then pulls in the cartridge. The tray plus cartridge is bulkier than a normal drive tray and it seems using plastic gears for the entire mechanism didn’t lend itself to drive longevity. I’m hoping the standard gear size applies here because oh hell yes I want to use DVD-RAM without pulling the disk out of the cartridge. #repair #diy #obsoletetech #obsoletehardware