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10 Obsolete Items

  • 600

    Quill Pen and Ink

    Quill Pen and Ink
    Made in 600 AD Quill (or quill pen) is a writing tool which is made from a flight feather of a large bird and which uses ink to leave marks on a writing surface. They are not used as much as pensant pencils but if you look around you can still buy one. I personally have and bought it in Italy in an old book shop.
  • Fax machines

    Fax machines
    A fax machine is a machine for transmitting and receiving faxes. Faxes are an image of a document made by electronic scanning and transmitted as data by telecommunication links. ( Google Definition) Although these Items are not completely obsolete just yet, but they are not use as much.
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    The Typewriter was a machine with keys for producing alphabetical characters, numerals, and typographical symbols one at a time on paper inserted around a roller. ( Google Definition )
  • Phone Books

    Phone Books
    A Phone book is a book that lists the names, addresses, and phone numbers of the people and businesses in a certain area.
  • Rotary Phone

    Rotary Phone
    A Rotary phone was a disk with finger holes that is affixed to a telephone and rotated to match up the finger holes with the letters and digits of a telephone number.
  • Pagers

    Pagers
    A Pager was an electronic device, usually worn on one's person, that receives messages and signals the user by beeping or vibrating. They were often used by emergency services, doctors and safety personnel who needed to be reachable at all times.
  • Slide Projector

    Slide Projector
    A slide projector is an opt o-mechanical device for showing photographic slides. ( Google Definition )
  • Floppy Disk

    Floppy Disk
    A Floppy disk was a flexible removable magnetic disk, typically encased in hard plastic, used for storing data. ( Google Definition )
  • VCR

    VCR
    Short-form for video cassette recorder, this was a device that, when linked to a television set, can be used for recording on and playing videotapes. ( Google Definition )
  • Camcorder

    Camcorder
    A camcorder is a portable combined video camera and video recorder.