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Handtools in woodworking. There are some people who refuse use a tool without a cord.
Apparently trains for some people
Tape drives. Remember those big reels of tape on mainframes in the 80s? They don't look exactly like that anymore, but tape is still used for backups/long term archival because they offer the lowest cost per gigabyte and decent longevity without needing to be powered, as long as you don't need to access the data all that fast or often.
Those dank memes and cat videos you posted in 2010 are probably on tape in a data centre somewhere
Tape itself is cheap, but buying the other equipment for it costs a fortune.
Tape is rad for long term storage
Guillotines
Darcs VCS
Trackballs
You might think of them as this old mouse that you had 20 years ago, but actually the technology is still being used for all kinds of things, including ergonomic mouse
I can actually game with one, and I've outright worn out 3. They last longer than traditional mice too.
Pretty much anything in a machine shop made in the last 80 years or so. So many people turn up their noses at anything that isn't computer controlled anymore. Yknow what a big old mill can do that a CNC can't? It can make every single part needed to make a new mill. It's a self replicating machine with the right know how. People don't respect that kind of quality anymore.
I don't think a mill can make the copper windings in the motor and isolate them. Same with the power cable.
You don't need an electric motor. You just need enough spin. I've seen old mills and lathes that run on steam. An electric motor just happens to be very convenient with our current technology.
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Ota analog signals.
Fax machines. Government and medical offices would grind to a halt without them. That's just reality.
Came to say this. Fax just refuses to die.
That's basically the answer to the opposite question: what is something that someone thinks isn't obsolete, but really is?
Because it can do something that the alternatives can't do or because they refuse to use something more modern?
"It can't be hacked"
Of course, it can, and a lot more easily than a TLS stream, but try convincing them of that. So, more like they refuse to use something more modern.
Everyone even tangentially related to healthcare is terrified of violating HIPAA in a way that leaves evidence that can be traced back to them. So the corps force dumb shit like this, while the employees are perfectly happy to tell all kinds of private health information to anyone who will listen. Especially if it's funny or gross.
Believe it or not, Canadian health services do this shit too.
Because it works. Every part needed to run those machines, even line of code, every possible cause of failure is well documented and there are layers and layers of redundant protocol to ensure that if something does go wrong downtime is minimal.
The entire purpose of these machines are designed to run for as long as theyβre needed. Theyβre not replaced or upgraded because they were never meant to be. A lot of effort went into this being the case.
Even worse, the US military, at least, is still using teletype machines and COBOL.
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