This short post is in praise of analogue technology, specifically my Mitutoyo vernier callipers, which I picked up a couple of years ago for no good reason beyond fond memories of time spent in Physics labs during my undergraduate days.

Even so it has had, and continues to get, a fair bit of use.

Best of all, it requires no power source and needs no consumables. Indeed it expects nothing extra beyond its own good self. Of stainless steel construction, it will last me out and will never cost me a penny more to operate than I paid for it.

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