h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I still use all kinds old fashioned technology.
With my guitar playing, I still prefer to mess with a cassette machine, the cheaper the better. There are all kinds digital toys
out there and if I'd bothered, I could have been burning my own CDs on my confuser years ago, but I never tried because I like the idea that I can buy any cassette or find one and put a couple bits of sticky tape on top and record me own noise.

I've got a few ancient reel to reels hanging around, but they all need work. I keep them around as kind of a museum, like my typewriters.
I remember almost twenty years ago telling people that I would always use a typewriter, because tapping things into a computer didn't feel like real writing to me.
My, how things be changed.

I am now on my third free cellaphone from the wireless people. I still have my first two, in good operating order, but needing batteries. Ten years or so with a cellaphone and now I don't even bother with a landline except for dial-up ISP.

I still don't have satellite or cable for my TV.
I just watch the broadcast crap or pop in a VHS or DVD.

I remember the bad old days when I didn't even have a TV, just a little top-loader audio cassette machine.

Thanks!

Hi TR, thanks for that, you can get money for them old mobile phones, there is a site where you log on and find out how much they will give you for them. I still have the very first mobile pocket cassette player that I paid over £80 for at the time?

Its amazing how prices fall, when video players first came out, they were over £400, now you get one for £29

We have cable TV ans we bought a new 37" H/D set recently, and a 21" for the bedroom, as we got the old box installed in there when we got the new TV drive box for the living room

Even the price of our new TV had dropped b over £500 since we bought our one?
Smudger.