Old technology

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I still use something called paper.

 

[Davidc]

I still use something called paper.

I have an ebook, I have a smartphone which can be used with ebooks BUT I still far prefer the feel, the smell, and the experience of reading from a real, printed, paper book.

I prefer steel bikes to aluminium (though carbon ones are impressive)

Last week I was re-doing the floor in the bathroom, and using my grandfather's engineer's square. It has 1915, his initials, and his then employers name stamped into it. Better made and sturdier than modern ones, still shiny, and the 90 degree angle is exactly the same as on a new one!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

[QUOTE 3003650, member: 9609"]So who has the oldest working mobile - I guess mine is 01/02 probably gets used less than once a month

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I've spent ages looking for a Siemens ME45, the shock and dustproof version of that one. As a machine for keeping me in contact it was the best phone I've ever had.

 

[AndyRM]

I still buy pornography in magazine form.

Not for personal use, you understand. I scatter it around local parks so that the youth of today won't miss the almost forgotten rite of passage that is finding porn in hedges.

 

[classic33]

I still buy pornography in magazine form.

Not for personal use, you understand. I scatter it around local parks so that the youth of today won't miss the almost forgotten rite of passage that is finding porn in hedges.

Littering your local park.

 

[welsh dragon]

I still buy pornography in magazine form.

Not for personal use, you understand. I scatter it around local parks so that the youth of today won't miss the almost forgotten rite of passage that is finding porn in hedges.

 

[classic33]

I've spent ages looking for a Siemens ME45, the shock and dustproof version of that one. As a machine for keeping me in contact it was the best phone I've ever had.

One in Bulgaria
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Siemens-M...1290562205?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item4ace68ea9d

 

[dan_bo]

I still buy pornography in magazine form.

Not for personal use, you understand. I scatter it around local parks so that the youth of today won't miss the almost forgotten rite of passage that is finding porn in hedges.

Funy you should say that-i rode over a copy of 40+ earlier.


I didnt stop.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Ewbank carper sweepers.http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f66/ewbank-carpet-sweepers-2141.html Didn't every home have one? My mum still has a 1970's one,probably made in Accy!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

One in Bulgaria http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Siemens-M...1290562205?pt=Cell_Phones&hash=item4ace68ea9d

cheers, I went having another look after posting & found a couple, first time I've seen one, that one looks a bit battered but there's another one I'm tempted by.

 

[AndyRM]

[QUOTE 3010530, member: 9609"]This was my first enterprise as a kid - we lived near a railway station, and the tracks a mile or so before the station used to be littered with the things, people must have thrown the mags out of the window before arriving at the station. presumably businessmen coming back home from down south must have sat on the train flicking through Penthouse & Mayfair then chucked them out of the window before being picked up by wifie at the station - Must have been a strange world back in the 70s! So anyway, me and a mate used to regularly search the few miles south of the station and collect the mags then sell them at school. Kept us going in ciggies. I had one seriously odd upbringing, I also used to go out with my Grandad collecting coal of the tracks (this was the main east coast line) we used to have to go and hide when there was a train coming!

Just curious - is the likes of the modern day lads mags Nuts and Zoom similar to the likes of Penthouse and Mayfair back in the 70s..?[/QUOTE]

Class.

Nuts and Zoo are diluted versions of the olden tymes periodicals from days of yore. They leave a gentleman nowhere near as relaxed or refreshed.

Ahem.

Back on topic! I still have a VCR. It's plugged into a flat screen TV which seems utterly ridiculous. I watched Heat last night and had forgotten just how loud you needed the volume to overcome the sound of the tape winding along.

 

[Poacher]

[QUOTE 3010530, member: 9609"]This was my first enterprise as a kid - we lived near a railway station, and the tracks a mile or so before the station used to be littered with the things, people must have thrown the mags out of the window before arriving at the station. presumably businessmen coming back home from down south must have sat on the train flicking through Penthouse & Mayfair then chucked them out of the window before being picked up by wifie at the station - Must have been a strange world back in the 70s! So anyway, me and a mate used to regularly search the few miles south of the station and collect the mags then sell them at school. Kept us going in ciggies.[/QUOTE]

This strikes a chord! Way back in 1971 I worked for the London Borough of Barnet for 6 months or so as a "Street Orderly", i.e. a road sweeper, with responsibility for sweeping gutters, collecting litter and emptying small litter bins. Part of my regular beat covered the streets near Totteridge and Whetstone tube station. Totteridge was, and presumably still is, a very well-to-do area, and the contents of the litter bins reflected this. Maybe upmarket isn't quite the word I'm looking for, but certainly exotic, expensive, and not the run-of-the-mill top shelf product, if you know what I mean. Quite a revelation for an inexperienced 18 year old!

 

[Cheddar George]

Still use a Texas Instruments TI-508 calculator for work, to my knowledge it's over 25 years old, works great, the little PV panel means it does not need any batteries.

Just looked on ebay, one being offered as vintage 1980's for twenty quid.

 

[marknotgeorge]

I still use something called paper.

Me too. It's easier when comparing, say, a client's records to bank statements if at least one document is on paper, I find. The downside is the hundreds of boxes of musty old documents everywhere. Oi! 1970s! Where's my paperless office?

 

[ColinJ]

Still use a Texas Instruments TI-508 calculator for work, to my knowledge it's over 25 years old, works great, the little PV panel means it does not need any batteries.

Just looked on ebay, one being offered as vintage 1980's for twenty quid.

Introduced in 1989.

I still use my TI-36X, bought in 1991.