manual typewriters and other obsolete technology

i've been known to indulge every once in awhile. it looks nerdy as fuck. i love it.

A manual lawnmower isn't fun, a have some friends that use one and it takes almost two days to mow their lawn. Recently they got an electric lawnmower that they have to run an extension cord into the house to run. I can't even count how many times they've ran over the extension cord and not been able to finish mowing.

I've replaced all my one-ways with CF bulbs, but I love my three-way incandescent.

i just found an electric typewriter on the street about a week ago. i haven't had a computer printer since the black ink ran out 2-3 years ago. that typewritter text is perfect with some supa ghetto stencil prints i make.

I still have a BETA VCR

I'm kind of disappointed that my most popular thread was "How do I make ♥ these?", which was full of people saying ♥ but is now full of people saying ♥

Oooh, I've still got a betamax too. It's got the flip top, a remote attached to the front by a cable, and wood paneled sides. It is so rad.

I don't necessarily know if it'd be considered obsolete...but I still mainly use manual hand tools. I have a complete set of Black & Decker power-tools...but I usually use my dad's old wooden hand tools. There's definitely a romantic feel to it. It's like you're creating comething instead of just slapping something together.

I always thought there was something ironic about power tools covered in cheap plastic. Old tools and components are neat because they're so tough-looking. Whenever I watch a Bond film and the villian is holding a clunky stainless steel remote with flip-switches on it, I get wistful.

i'd love to have a rotary phone again... been thinking about that for a while, i need to start hunting.

i have a tv that's ancient. it's a little 13 or 15inch screen, UHF & VHF dials (the metal ones that go click-click-click-click hard), color & non-color button, doesn't work with dvd's even when you use a coax adapter, carriable by a little handgroove in the top. it's between (at a guess) 2o & 25yrs old.

i love that little sucker and will someday find some way to put it to use again, as it is, indeed, still working as well as it ever did (meaning limitedly).

my hubby has a small mortar & pestle for spice. he bought me a large one (about 8inch diameter on the inside, 10inch to the outside, about 20-30lbs as it's solid granite) for my more involved grinding.

sure, i could use the food processor, but there's something so pleasing about sitting down and grinding your oat or rice flour by hand, or flaxseeds, or .......

oh, and cassette tapes. oooooooooooooo. lol.

you just aint cool till youve watched some cheesy Godzilla movie on one of these bad boys


WOO BETAMAX!

I love oldy timey antiquated phrases. A personal favorite... when I go out I often tell friends I'll be there, "as soon as I put my face on". Also, I often find things that are truly wonderful to be, "the bees knees."

I like to appraoch two or more strangers engaged in conversation and ask, "What's the rumpus?" I've always tipped my boater and toddled off before they have an answer.

My other favourite old-timey phrase is "wang-doodle" as in, "Tonight me and my best gal are gonna wang-doodle, hot-cha-cha-cha!"

oh you kid.

That's fucking awesome!!!!

I love my crimping iron, when I grow my hair out again I am totally going to start crimping it again.

The most obsolete technology I use ias a toaster without a digital display...the typewriter mmy mom had was barely obsolete...it required an outlet and you could actually erase letters with it...

I used an apple IIe until 1997, but that's probably not what you're talking about.

If you still used it today that'd totally be what I was talking about.

I have an old CP/M luggable which I sometimes use because it has a really nasty hissy speech synth.