Re: [ARSCLIST] "All hail the analogue revolution..."

[RA Friedman <rafriedman@xxxxxxx>]

I doubt that vinyl will make a comeback but there is something to be said for controls that are physical rather than virtual, that you can just hit without looking. 
 
I just noticed that one of the new Canon digital cameras was hailed for having "analogue-like" buttons, etc. I suspect this trend will continue . Who wants to wade through a million menus? Still, I'm a bit freaked out by electronic cash registers that have a canned "cha-ching" sound!
 
RA Friedman
Rights and Reproductions
Historical Society of PA

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	"...What pleasure is there to be had in clicking a virtual button with a
	mouse? Very little, really. Whereas the slightly precarious operation of
	placing a record on a platter and dropping the needle seems like a
	surgical procedure of a kind that most modern automation has tried to
	completely erase..."