10 (unexpected) places where obsolete technology lives on

Rat-a-tat-tat... ping!

Can you believe it? At the New York Police department, forms are still being filled out on typewriters. This cutting-edge city – arguably the world’s most cutting-edge city - spent $432,900 on maintenance for these old-school machines last year.
Here’s a brief list of 10 places (or areas) where old technologies have been rescued from the dustbin of history.


Cassette tapes in prisons


Typewriters in the New York Police Department


Betamax in filmmakers’ editing suites



Pagers in hospitals (and by drug dealers... see: The Wire)


The spirit of carbon copying in the abbreviation ‘CC’ in emails


Telegrams across America



Vinyl records and the youth of today 


Skateboards and the Hampshire police



Leeches and modern medicine 



8-track and Cheap Trick’s latest album





(and one more for luck... microfilm in libraries)