Any fans of outdated technologies?

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Fyrefox

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They were the rage in the 1980’s, and many people had them…Walkman-type radio-cassette players! Just pop in a cassette tape or tune to your preferred radio station, slap on your headphones, and you were good to go! Compact, private portable entertainment that went with you. They became outdated and replaced in a few years by music CD players that in turn largely yielded to computerized, digital download devices, but I still maintained an affection for radio-cassette players, learning how to fix some of their common problems and doctor ailing cassette tapes…

How about you? Do you still have fondness for any archaic technologies, and indulge in them? What might they be?

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Fyrefox said:
They were the rage in the 1980’s, and many people had them…Walkman-type radio-cassette players! Just pop in a cassette tape or tune to your preferred radio station, slap on your headphones, and you were good to go! Compact, private portable entertainment that went with you. They became outdated and replaced in a few years by music CD players that in turn largely yielded to computerized, digital download devices, but I still maintained an affection for radio-cassette players, learning how to fix some of their common problems and doctor ailing cassette tapes…

How about you? Do you still have fondness for any archaic technologies, and indulge in them? What might they be?

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I loved those!

I guess the "boom box" is considered outdated now but that is what I use for music. I have two and one is having problems so that is why I bought a back up one. The older one is way better than the new one. Both are made by Sony.
 
I have an original Atari still in the box with maybe 10 cartridges. Including Space Invaders, Asteroids, Frogger and Packman, of course. It was at my daughter’s house or it would have burned with everything else when the house went up in flames. My son has many of the original “Star Wars” toys in boxes that we bought him as a small boy, but other than taking them out of the box, he has never played with them
 
I'm rather fond of my archaic technologies. :ROFLMAO:

For audio, I'll still use AM/FM radio or vinyl records or cassette tapes or CDs. Still make music on a wooden guitar and an old fashioned piano. For other technologies, I still play video tapes on occasion. I like to finish wood with linseed oil. I prefer to grill over charcoal rather than gas. Still find times when sending a letter is far better than sending an email or text.

It isn't that don't appreciate current technology for what it is. Most of the latest trends are better than older ones in some respects; not as good in others. But I'm not one to abandon something simply because it's "old". ;)
 
I still have one of those Instamatic cameras...just drop in a film cassette and you're ready to go. Of course, you can't get the films for them now, but it was my first camera and I took a lot of pictures with it.
(Don't confuse Instamatic with Polaroid...not the same thing)
 
My Dodge Dakota is going on 19 years old. It has a combined cassette and cd player factory installed. I use both media when on the road.

I also have a ham radio receiver and transmitter that constituted my very first station back in 1959. Both units work as well as they did when new. Unfortunately the same cannot be said about me.
 
I liked my old cathode ray tube TVs because I could hear them. I've never had good sound with any of my flat screen TVs and I can't seem to adjust the lightness of the picture either. It's always twilight time.
 

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