Episode 10: Obsolescence
You've seen them on TV during movies like Interview With The Vampire or Law And Order. The accused sits at some table in the "interview" room. The two detectives walk in and what happens? They always press two buttons.
It sits there on the table like the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about...ever.
It sits there with a big window...and an even bigger speaker. What you see in the window are two small sprockets turning. One dark area shrinks as one grows. It's big enough to fit into a briefcase but not small enough to fit into a pocket.
If you have the image of a full-sized desktop tape recorder, you'd have it right. In The Church's hallowed halls today, one of those was launched.
Understand, I can take launching digital voice recorders that are slightly expensive. I can take launching microcassette recorders next to them or even the Walkman-style full-size cassette recorders but when faced with these relics, I simply could not believe that these things were still being mass produced.
I looked at them in wonder. I wondered who actually still used these things as limited as the storage capacity is. A digital voice recorder can take nearly hundreds of hours of recording seamlessly where you'd have to have a mountain of tape in order to accomplish the same end. A digital recorder will also allow you to index for later translation to CD which has a longer shelf life. They're also small enough to be fit into a pocket without much of a footprint.
I suppose that there are those who would prefer to go a little old school.
Me, I'm off to continue my world tour. Dead Man Walking just got their own jet to live their debauched little hearts in luxury.
It sits there on the table like the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about...ever.
It sits there with a big window...and an even bigger speaker. What you see in the window are two small sprockets turning. One dark area shrinks as one grows. It's big enough to fit into a briefcase but not small enough to fit into a pocket.
If you have the image of a full-sized desktop tape recorder, you'd have it right. In The Church's hallowed halls today, one of those was launched.
Understand, I can take launching digital voice recorders that are slightly expensive. I can take launching microcassette recorders next to them or even the Walkman-style full-size cassette recorders but when faced with these relics, I simply could not believe that these things were still being mass produced.
I looked at them in wonder. I wondered who actually still used these things as limited as the storage capacity is. A digital voice recorder can take nearly hundreds of hours of recording seamlessly where you'd have to have a mountain of tape in order to accomplish the same end. A digital recorder will also allow you to index for later translation to CD which has a longer shelf life. They're also small enough to be fit into a pocket without much of a footprint.
I suppose that there are those who would prefer to go a little old school.
Me, I'm off to continue my world tour. Dead Man Walking just got their own jet to live their debauched little hearts in luxury.
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