Obsolete technology-
My home is a shrine to it! Most of the radio and audio devices are valve powered, and I even have a nice wind up gramaphone and a huge stack of 78's to play on it.

In the shed is a cottage lighting plant, driven by a petrol engine, that came from the factory in 1928 and would be great if you wanted to run your house on 50 volts DC.

Photography, well that would be a 35mm system using real film, none of this digital nonsense.

Timekeeping duties are carried out by a lovely old pendulum driven electric master clock.

If you want to use the landline, the telephone is a large black bakelite device with a shiny chromium plated dial and not a push button in sight.

Not that I think all modern technology is bad, I have a computer, mobile phone, and a flat screen television, etc, but I think it is sad that a lot of this high tech stuff is effectively disposable, either due to being unrepairable should it become faulty, or merely that it has become unfashionable.

Maybe I should just change my name to Ned Ludd and be done with it.
(Snabblim Dropfritt, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 14:22, 1 reply)

Just think, in a few years time someone will probably do a doco about your lovely stuff.
Then you can laugh in an evil tone of righteousness.
(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 4:46, closed)