Some other things that refuse to die! Just yesterday AMAZON had a deal on for “Graphite Transfer Carbon Paper”! I used to lust for the premium types that could be used more than once. Typing a school paper or any kind of required military document without using it could mean the end of life as you knew it. With the carbon copy, you had proof if the original had an adventure, without - bad news!
Second, the best of not ancient technology, the great IBM Selectric Typewriter! The young-uns have no idea of what an object of desire that was for a student or writer. The most basic had a single fixed typing ball, then came the exchangeable typing balls, then came the ones with a correcting ribbon and the final ones, the last of a great breed, were the ones that had memory so that when you had proofed the entire document, you pressed a button and just fed clean paper for a dazzling finished product! (I know that there were other follow-ons but these were the ones I had lust in my heart for!) I know of offices where the heavy steel machines still get used - it is just that repair on them is almost impossible.
Third is the original mini-HD iPods, the ones with the video screens. They also refuse to die and the 128GB and 64GB versions are actually commanding prices higher than what they originally sold for. Don’t come to me, I lost mine, I swear it!
Ah, memories!
I wholeheartedly agree on the IBM Selectric. It was the workhorse of many an office secretary and others for decades.
Those were just wonderful! It made typing easy and kind of fun. They were terrific as the console output device for the big computers as well.