This was spinning yesterday.
I'm pretty much up to date now, technologically, (for a baby boomer).
Ping?
I never used a travel agent.
They got why fax machines are still used wrong. It’s really all legal, verified unmodifiable point to point transmission of data. Very powerful in legal disputes.
-—Faxing can also be more secure than email; faxes are hard to intercept because they are a direct communication from the sender to the receiver, while emails get moved through a central server.-—
Seeing as the Fourth Amendment is all but meaningless, I don’t see a fax machine as all that obsolete.
Difficult to email a signed document unless you have a scanner, easy to send with a fax machine.
I’m obsolete technology.
Any lawyer will tell you there’s no substitute for a signed original with an original signature. Notaries public are still around and with good reason. Personally, I miss having a bank return an original check as proof positive that certain key payments were, in fact, made.
Despite all the problems with paper ballots, they’re still far more secure than electronic voting.
What the heck is venmo?
What the heck is venmo?
The FAX was invented in 1843, many decades before the telephone itself?
And yeah, the rest of the article is just as dumb.
“Ancient” bits of tech? WinXP?
This was spinning yesterday.
Our company still uses fax machines because medical records are sent there. It still uses Windows XP because they are too cheap to replace it.
I had to use a fax to send information for my CCW permit. they would not accept emails. And I still write checks to the IRS.
I don't think a storage medium is much protection against a hacker.
Hackers exploit SW vulnerabilities and vulnerabilities caused by computer system connectivity to networks. If the SW is on a floppy, it doesn't make it more or less exploitable. If the computer system is connected to a network and accesses data from a floppy, that floppy is not going to be any protection from a hacker.
The military uses floppies because the military does not spend money to upgrade IT systems. That's 95% of the reason.
Fax machines invested in 1843 ... lol
My current job is with a rural medical clinic.
I don’t know if it is industry-wide, but faxing is the primary way that medical records are transferred between practices and hospitals in our area.
I’m moving us toward electronic faxing, because we currently receive faxes on paper, scan them, and then throw the paper away. When we send them, we print them, fax them, and then throw the paper away. Because these are medical records, we can’t just throw away the paper directly, but have to shred them first.
So I’ll get rid of a lot of time and expense by going electronic, but we’ll still be faxing.
I previously came from the real estate industry, where there was an industry wide, commonly used data interchange system. While this does exist in the medical industry, it’s not as mature or widely used (at least to my understanding). So we fax and fax and fax...
I'm down to my last cassette player. The others broke.
Every 3.5 floppy disk I ever used corrupted data. I’m glad they’re gone (the article mentions 8 inch disks). 5 1/4 disks never caused me a problem.
I have 4 record players. They are my babies. I also have a couple of high-end 80s cassette and CD components.
Far more enjoyable than clicking a file and playing it, and this is coming from a person that has 500+ GB of mp3s.
The audio resolution on vinyl is far superior to CDs/DVDs/Blu-Rays.
On vinyl the audio is strictly analog. In digital the audio is ‘sampled’ at varying rates. The ‘gaps’ are lost forever on digital.
Please take it from a former Sonarman and BSEE.
Fax - I had to fax a number of papers when selling a small piece of property in another county. For what it’s worth, Staples have faxes you can pay to use.
Checks - lawn maintenance and several small contractor type businesses still require checks.
That’s it though I do have boxes of floppies and vinyl recorders somewhere in the garage.