Nostalgia for obsolete technology
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Stick shift - three on the tree.
Dialing the last four digits of a phone number if the person lived in town.
Making popcorn in a 'popcorn maker' with oil and a crank you turned to keep the kernels from sticking or burning.
MTV when it played music videos (OK, might not fit, but I miss it anyway).
Gordon Nore
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Manual choke on my mid-seventies Honda Civic. That item was a throw back to cars of earlier times, but it sure worked great in the depths of winter in the York University parking lot.
Gordon Nore
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I got another one. I needed a new watch. I don't tend to spend a lot of money on watches. I just keep wearing it until it doesn't work and then toss it. I remembered this watch from the Mammacher Schlemmer catalogue I get in the mail and ordered it.
It winds up. How's that for old school.
It winds up. How's that for old school.
Vectrex machine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex
I still have two, with every game released. Still fire it up once in a while.
I still have two, with every game released. Still fire it up once in a while.
I actually forgot to mention wristwatches. Mine is an Omega Seamaster bumper wind (it winds when you wear it by the movement of your body) circa 1953. Keeps great time.
Way Cool! Thanks Andy!
I miss the general paradigm of "Solid State".
It freakin bugs me that every freakin thing needs to reboot, upgrade, crash, or freakin re-install right when I need it the most to turn on or freakin turn off!!!!!
The freakin tv needs to boot up, freakin Wii, freakin phone, freakin everything!!!
I hear now they have robot dolls that lonely people might buy for companionship. What's going to happen to the owner when that freakin thing reboots, upgrades, or re-installs right in the mist of doing it doing it's freakin thing?
It freakin bugs me that every freakin thing needs to reboot, upgrade, crash, or freakin re-install right when I need it the most to turn on or freakin turn off!!!!!
The freakin tv needs to boot up, freakin Wii, freakin phone, freakin everything!!!
I hear now they have robot dolls that lonely people might buy for companionship. What's going to happen to the owner when that freakin thing reboots, upgrades, or re-installs right in the mist of doing it doing it's freakin thing?
I have to design failure-proof control systems to run on this stuff, Harold 
. It's a nightmare woven from the fibres of an excellent idea that has not delivered on it's promises ... tho I think it will one day. After all, the Starship Enterprise never suffered a blue-screen of death or a Restart Now to Install Updates lockout :lol;.
. It's a nightmare woven from the fibres of an excellent idea that has not delivered on it's promises ... tho I think it will one day. After all, the Starship Enterprise never suffered a blue-screen of death or a Restart Now to Install Updates lockout :lol;.
Ah Bill I am with you on MTV actually playing music!
Also I miss drive-ins! What a cool idea that just faded out!
Also I miss drive-ins! What a cool idea that just faded out!
We still have one here http://www.mustangdriveinguelph.ca/index.html
They still play those corny little ads for the snack bar with the dancing hotdogs!
What happens when the companion robot upgrades and the owner finds that the robot has been seeing someone else?
Technology I miss on cars:
Oh, wait, that's technology I *don't* miss! Here's some I actually do miss.
Now that's better...
- Carburetors.
- Ignition points.
- Drum brakes.
- Bias ply tires.
- Molten-hot shiny vinyl seats in the summertime.
Oh, wait, that's technology I *don't* miss! Here's some I actually do miss.
- Steel bumpers.
- Solid axles.
- Wing vent windows.
- Crank windows.
- Glass packs.
- Chrome.
Now that's better...
Why don't you miss carburetors and dizzies (distributors), Bill? It used to be that if something went wrong with the ignition cycle you could fix it yourself. Now most people can't. I could probably have a stab at reprogramming the chip but I wouldn't like to 
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