Quaint technology thread!

[Deja Q]

BETAMAX!!!



Halogen lights to keep the sign lit at night!!!!



Trash cans were once not a thing of the past! Especially if you're told to bring it home with you!!



Head on a platter, colorized -- priceless!!



Picket signs - quaint and may never go out of style!!!



Light-up display bust, oh yeah!!!!!

[GOPisEvil]

1. Sad for Sony. Betamax was superior to VHS.

In fact Beta was used professionally for years after VHS took over the consumer market.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. Home computer.

[Parche]

3. I miss Paul Lynde

:cry: :cry: :hi:

[FloridaJudy]

11. And I miss Isaac Asimov!

As my late grandmother called him "That great Russian writer: ee-ZAK Ah-ZEE-moff". I took me years to discover we were reading the same science fiction novels, though she read them in Russian.

[Orsino]

4. 24 (1994 pilot)

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Humor_The_original_pilot_of_Foxs_1125.html

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. As A Die Hard 24 Fan, I Thank You So Much For That! That Was FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[darkstar]

8. Hillarious. thanks

:hi:

[Ptah]

6. Sundial

[Liberal Veteran]

7. These strange machines.....

[Redstone]

9. I have actually seen THE ORIGINAL videotape recorder.

At Ampex's headquarters in California.

Redstone

[TommyO]

10. Rotary Telephones

[Liberal Veteran]

12. We had one of those in my house on a PARTY LINE.

And they were seriously heavy. You could throw your back out picking that thing up to clean under it.