I ran across my old Rolodex the other day, its black cover grimy with dust, the old cards gray with age, the ink on the cards faded, and the sight of this ancient artifact made me wonder ...

Contact information can be written or typed on blank cards, or special sleeve cards can be used to hold business cards. Despite being featured in museums these days, the Rolodex company is still ...

If you were a reporter, though, you probably had a “Rolodex,” a compact spinning barrel of (sometimes) alphabetized index cards with names of sources, an easy way to find a number when you needed it.

The Rolodex, however, does pose a few challenges of its own. Before you write anything on the cards, you have to get the cards out of the plastic sleeves they come in. Because the cards are ...

There are few office-supply objects more iconic than the Rolodex (the name comes from a combination of the words rolling and index). Before the digital age of smartphones and computers, people used ...

He amassed about 200,000 of the cards, which filled a custom-built Rolodex machine. He kept the 5-foot high electronic device at his family’s suite of offices in New York City’s Rockefeller ...

Number two on the list is the tenacious fax machine with 71 percent. Somewhere, I believe I still have an actual Rolodex, with actual Rolodex cards. I used to tape or glue business cards to the ...

If I ever had trouble finding someone, I called Rose Mofford. She had the best Rolodex. Reporters depend on getting people to talk. You can't talk to people if you can't reach them.

But when clients and colleagues stop by his office, Mr. Fernandez says, "The only thing people notice is that I still have a Rolodex." More than 20 years after the digital revolution that ...