But club members also face a choice: buy your capsules from Nespresso – or your expensive machine become defunct.
Even the hospital equipment is on the way out: an x-ray machine lies defunct on the floor.
In 2011, millions noticed: in Spain and Greece and New York and Cairo, they sat down in public squares, and said the machine was defunct.
Some of them belong to reconditioned machines from defunct companies like Williams and Bally.
Both images would feature delicate lines laid down by a steady hand, though not Mr. Arcangel's: the drawings would in fact be the product of a 1990s pen plotter machine, until recently defunct, which Mr. Arcangel had rerigged and reprogrammed.
I could barely open the door for the towers of cardboard cartons, empty suitcases and those defunct machines.
These so-called defunct machines are also better at keeping secrets, which is why Polt also views the typewriter as an anti-surveillance tool.
Christmas arrived a few days early for physicists in Italy and the United States, as the Italian Ministry for Education, University, and Research has given funding to a project to construct a new particle smasher using parts from a now-defunct machine in the United States.
It's a composition of contrasts: a fragile youth with a defunct war machine.
The museum occupies a portion of the old machine shop of the defunct Bethlehem Steel shipyard, a long brick building looking out across the piers toward the Manhattan skyline, which looms so tantalizingly close as to have tempted generations of politicians, financiers, transportation moguls and engineers to concoct faster ways to reach it.
