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Music on vinyl records, mobile phones the size of house bricks and pornography printed on paper. What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?

Thanks to boozehound for the suggestion

(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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i'll have you know...
... that my slide rule and log tables are emphatically NOT out of date and redundant.


But for proper oldishness, I have a fob-watch style volt/ammeter, and my m/grandparents carving knife/fork. The cfork even has one of those fold-out lever things, and the knife had been sharpened so often it is more of a spike.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:22, 5 replies)
although
I don't actually own a slide rule, which is a shame really. But my 30yr old casio fx3600p is going just fine.

But I do use the log tables, for all the trig and stats identities at the back.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:24, closed)
I think you'll find
They've changed maths since then.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:25, closed)
hmm
I'm sure the trig identities are still the same though :-)
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:34, closed)
They're not
It has been shown since that triangles actually have 2.99973 sides.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 13:11, closed)
seriously?
are you winding us the fuck up?
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 13:57, closed)
Surely
I'm not seen as some sort of authority on maths to be that convincing.

Besides, it was 3.00015 sides.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 15:03, closed)

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