Flexi discs (not “flexidiscs”) sold in their tens of millions during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and the early 1990s—before virtually disappearing from the face of the earth for a decade and a half. But, as ...

This is the way a once-proud technology ends: not with a snap and crackle of low-fidelity static, not with the incessant clicking of a needle stuck in a groove, but with absolute radio silence. Once ...