Ask Jimmy Kennedy and Nat Simon. They're the ones who actually wrote that song. ...back in 1953. I've got at least two different versions of it on old shellac 78's. The Joe "Fingers" Carr version is probably the most common, and there was a reissue of that one on LP. The Four Lads version is earlier, but seems to be more difficult to find.

It is rather amusing to play one of those 78's on a wind-up Victrola and watch the reaction of fellow TMBG fans...

You're correct-- Polaroid SX-70 and other integral films have turned out to be quite stable indeed. Polaroid B&W peel-apart prints are also incredibly stable-- as stable as conventional B&W prints on silver halide paper.

The only Polaroid prints that tended to fade were the (mostly older) "coater-required" B&W peel-apart films-- if you didn't bother to use the print coater! Also the Kodak Instant films (at least in the early days) faded pretty badly when exposed to UV (i.e. sunlight), but those weren't Polaroid products.

I don't know about a Kodak instant transparency film, but Polaroid had a product exactly like what you're thinking-- namely Polachrome 35mm film. It was fairly successful for the reasons you just mentioned. I was a pretty dense film and was slow, but it was pretty neat to be able to develop a 36-exposure roll of color slides in about 5 minutes! ...and without a darkroom at that. All you needed was the Polaroid 35mm Autoprocessor box (not very expensive for the manual-crank model)-- and the processing cartridge that was provided with the film.

Oh, and there was also a B&W version that was faster and had more normal density (the color film used additive color filter stripes to produce color).

Also, oddly enough, Polachrome wasn't much more expensive than Ektachrome + processing. [It also has turned out to be much more stable-- my Ektachrome slides from the 1980's look pretty bad now, but the Polachrome ones still seem to look like they did the day they were processed.]

Um, your Super Ikonta is a nice camera, but it is not an SLR.

The more modern Fuji folding cameras are not SLRs either. Folding cameras were once very popular indeed, but none of those were SLRs.

The magic of the SX-70 design was not that it folds up (heck, even the original Polaroid 95 was a folding camera), but that it was the first folding single-lens reflex camera.

The closest thing to a folding production SLR before that was the Graflex family, but those aren't really folding cameras, since the mirror box doesn't collapse. The only "folding" aspect to those is the bellows and focusing track similar to a folding camera, but the lens can only retract a bit past infinity. Also, the big folding "chimney" viewing shield on most models gives it a "folding camera" look, but that's just a sun shield over the waist-level finder. Anyway, as far as I know, the only folding SLR ever made that was not an SX-70 or one of its decendants was also a Polaroid product-- the Polaroid Craptiva. ...I mean Captiva. I never did understand the logic behind going through the trouble to create a whole new folding SLR design around that model, given that it had a rather slow lens and had only a very limited two-zone AF system (and no manual overrride), and no close-focus capability aside from a rarely-seen closeup accessory.

That's pretty good, but I think "A Logic Named Joe" by Murray Leinster in 1946 has describes a service that gets interestingly close to Google in certain regards (once "Joe" starts changing things) even if the details are very different.

Who's joking? I was actually just starting to wonder why nobody even made the suggestion of a 5.25" diskettte drive. I used to do that all the time-- at least, until several years ago when I discovered that the spiffy new motherboard I bought no longer supported 5.25" floppy drives. It was really handy for getting data from old diskettes and putting them onto more modern media.

I don't know if Windows 7 has 5.25" floppy support (I haven't tried), but Windows XP certainly does-- all the way back to the original 160K single-sided format from DOS 1.0. Windows XP/2000 even identifies 5.25 drives with a cute little icon that looks like a 5.25" diskette (instead of the usual 3.5" diskette icon).