#TBT: Who remembers old-school floppy disks and word processors?
What about facsimile/fax machines (pictured above) and telephone answering machine recorders? From sales reps to medical doctors, an entire generation of people clipped pagers to their belts when getting dressed every morning. (Listen to some sound effects, below, which may bring back (bad) memories!) Before Zoom and Microsoft’s Teams video conferencing, there was Skype! TechRadar takes a look back at these and other office technologies that once were on the cutting edge.
If you’re under 40, have you ever heard the sound of a fax machine modem connecting? What about a pager beeping?
Second-gen storage disks were thicker and not as flexible as their older, floppy cousins.
