Yesterday I was looking around the lab at all of the things that would have been the major component of someone from yesteryear's researching efforts. There's a little bit of history where ever you turn, like me coming across cases full of electrical equipement, previously used to measure fetal heartbeats - complete with 5¼″ floppy drive. I doubt that anybody now knows how to use and analyse the results from these!
Then I came across this gem:
It's a really ancient digital camera - complete with driver software on cassette! I wonder how many pixels it has!
In the background of the photo you can see the silhouette of the uber camera I'm using to collect data for my PhD. I wonder whether that'll end up hidden away in the lab somewhere, with people in 20 years posting about it on their blogs about how amature it looks!