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* Betamax. AppleTalk. NetBIOS. SNA. DECNET. Good luck to you trying to maintain a system or workflow based on any one of those technologies; no matter how similar they may be to more successful tech, almost no one cares about backwards compatibility.
** Not to mention [[LaserDisc]], rapidly reaching that state for cassette tapes, and if it weren't for audiophiles, the vinyl record would have surely gone that route already.
** Vinyl records made a small comeback, beginning in the late 2000s and snowballing over [[The New Tens]], albeit nowhere close to their prime in the decades leading up to [[The Eighties]]. You might find a small selection at your local big electronics store. New. From 2022 to 2024 Vinyl has been outselling ''[[Compact Disc]]s''.
* The engineering schematics for the space vehicles used in the Apollo project were written in an early CAD/CAM application that ran on computers that no longer function. The US National Archive has all the data preserved, but have no way to read it as modern computers are incompatible with the format they are stored in & the archivists have not been able to get funding to have a conversion program written.
** This ''may'' apply for the 1980s diagrams of British traffic signs, as commercial CAD software ([[Key SIGN]], formerly [[Auto SIGN]]) for this wasn't launched until the early 1980s by Pete Harman and Geoff Walker working for Humberside County Council. Prior to then, it's not known what software was used for these. Older [[Key SIGN/Auto SIGN|Auto SIGN]] diagrams ''may'' be compatible with the newer 2011 versions, but [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on this.
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