Analog
Obsolete technology and the words we retired with it.
Dot matrix. Rotary. Ferrite. Dial tone. A volume assembled entirely from the vocabulary of machines that have been superseded — which is to say, from the vocabulary of the recent past.
Published independently through Amazon KDP.
Material Integrity
Every volume is proofed on the stock it ships on. We do not approve a cover from a screen, and we do not approve an interior from a PDF.
99 Grids / 20 x 20
Organised by decade of retirement rather than by category.16pt Large Print
Word lists set in the series monospace-adjacent label face.8.5in x 11in / 212 Pages
Perfect bound, cream interior stock, matte laminate cover.Digital Only — QR Delivered
Solutions live at ramirezandsons.com/answers/analog.Every object here worked perfectly and was replaced anyway.
Obsolescence is a filing problem. Once a machine stops being sold, its nouns stop being maintained, and inside a generation nobody can say with confidence what a platen was.
We are not nostalgic about this. We simply think the words are worth keeping in circulation, and a grid is a durable container.
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