Technology that has died since the year 2000

[Mulletino]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Pokies here still pay in coins in most places, over a certain amount you have to wait for the attendant to bring you the cash. Other places have it print you a slip which you then either use as a credit in another machine or cash in at an ATM type thing.

[ken70]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Gone forever is the satisfying shower of coins if you won on the slot machine. Now your winnings are printed out on a slip to be redeemed at the cashier's booth. When I went to Las Vegas I was surprised to find that almost the entire casino was nothing more than a video arcade for adults. There were only a small handful of old fashioned blackjack tables with dealers, everything else were video machines, including craps and roulette.

Uk machines stilll pay in coins usually. Long may it continue... Even if fruit machines are a total con.

[Jay Mc]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Gone forever is the satisfying shower of coins if you won on the slot machine. Now your winnings are printed out on a slip to be redeemed at the cashier's booth. When I went to Las Vegas I was surprised to find that almost the entire casino was nothing more than a video arcade for adults. There were only a small handful of old fashioned blackjack tables with dealers, everything else were video machines, including craps and roulette.

I was there 2 years ago and it was so disappointing that they had taken away the coin operated slots - especially the silver dollar machines, I felt like a millionaire with a hand full of them ( I still have one from my first visit there in 2003)

some of the casinos had the sound of the coins falling into the tray being played digitally when you won

Not the same though

[victorbrunswick]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Proper one-armed bandits...

Gone forever is the satisfying shower of coins if you won on the slot machine. Now your winnings are printed out on a slip to be redeemed at the cashier's booth. When I went to Las Vegas I was surprised to find that almost the entire casino was nothing more than a video arcade for adults. There were only a small handful of old fashioned blackjack tables with dealers, everything else were video machines, including craps and roulette.

[Arran]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

I can vaguely remember fruit machines with a CRT showing images of the reels instead of it having moving reels but this goes back to CRT applications.

CRT displays were also commonly used at train stations but have since been replaced by flat panel displays. Are there any train stations that still have the mechanical 'flapper board' displays for the train times and destinations?

[zabadak]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Proper one-armed bandits...

[Arran]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

There was a mechanical stamp vending machine attached to a pillar box on a local housing estate in 1999/2000. I think it was still working then but it has since been removed. Around the same time there were also electronic machines inset into walls outside post offices. In London I have encountered a few post boxes with inbuilt stamp machines at the back. None of them were functioning even back in the 1990s.

http://www.cvphm.org.uk/SVM.html

[Twocky61]

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Those brief case mobile phones lol

[darren]

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Wow thats a blast from the past.
Im not sure ive ever seen or remember vending machines attached to pillar boxes givin out stamps.

Well ive not seen any in the last 20 yrs that i can remember.

are there any working postage stamp vending machines attached to the side of pillar boxes? There were around in the 1990s but i haven't encountered one for over 10 years now.

[Richard1978]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

I've not seen one for many years, not every post office has a stamp dispenser these days.

[Arran]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Are there any working postage stamp vending machines attached to the side of pillar boxes? There were around in the 1990s but I haven't encountered one for over 10 years now.

[Richard1978]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

The company I work for still has a fax machine, but I don't know if it gets much use.

There was a push in the early 1990s to get them into domestic use, & offering services such as being able to get information printed out by simply dialling a number & paying the call charge.

The internet was a more practical way to this kind of thing.

[fynger]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Fax machines

[Richard1978]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

I had dialup at home from 1998 to 2005, when my parents got broadband.

[darren]

Re: Technology that has died since the year 2000

Yes when my bro first got his computer it was dial up.
This was around 1998.
By 2001 he no longer had it.