Vintage Tech - Our fallen comrades

Technology is greatly moving very fast, some of the income-controlled people can not catch up with the new in thing. That is why I say that some old tech is not dead, but on life support because of us critters. I would like to pay tribute to these products;


The VCR – Before Tivos and DVRs, there were VCRs. When VCR came out, it changed the way we watched TV and movies. Of course there were the problem of the video degrading, broken tapes and the tape being messed up by the VCR. It was still the most reliable tech tool at this time and with the prices for a VCR can be less than 100 dollars; the tapes can be priced at 2 dollars depending on the manufacture. For a brief history on the VCR, click here.

Portable CDs player – With everyone having a hard drive media player for music and downloading music online, most of the people would not consider having a portable CD player. The ratio of seeing a CD player is one of five person still owns a CD player but it is one of every three person owns a digital player. That means the CD is not going to fade away anytime soon.

Cassette Players – Not taking away from the CDs, cassettes are really on life support. Finding cassette player can be hard, but the price can start at 20 dollars. The cassettes can start at 50 cents per tape. If you still have one in your home, cherish it, it done it job for media tech. Check out the history at pocketcalculatorshow.com/walkman/history.html

Drop a comment here on any old and vintage tech we should pay some respect for and even a comment on the old tech that I was talking about here.