Comments on: How do you Deal with Old Technology?

By: jimmy

jimmy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:47:22 +0000

my grandpa has an HDTV and he likes it
they have broadband connection, but only because my cousin who spends most of her time there asked for it, although my grandpa and me like tech very much

By: blued888

blued888 — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:33:57 +0000

We still have LOTS of those old technologies here at home, our 3 desktop PCs still use those CR T monitors. And we actually have a Betamax and Laserdisc player stashed up somewhere.

By: sbushfan11

sbushfan11 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:24:46 +0000

Always hated VHS, the quality just wasn’t there. Now I have to waste time and effort transferring this junk to DVDs. The other curse was dialup, never saw more than 33kb connections and drop outs all the time. So, yes I am addicted to the new technology.

By: DHS

DHS — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:29:25 +0000

I always donate it to local church.
They know what to do with it, either to give it to folks in need or in church..

By: Brandon Truesdell

Brandon Truesdell — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:44:43 +0000

I have so much old technology like a Compaq running on Windows 95 and a Dell running on Windows 98. If we could update the old technology to new technology there would not be old technology and we would have no problem with old technology.

By: Keith Young

Keith Young — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:41:25 +0000

My mom has found that if there is something that she wants she just waits for me to buy it for her or give her my old tech because she knows that i am always upgrading my stuff i and buy good stuff and she doesnt mind getting my old stuff. She saves her money this way…

By: Piffles

Piffles — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:51:01 +0000

I think coming across old technology now and again is refreshing. In old technology, the complexity of the system is usually more apparent than in newer systems. It makes you realize how smart the guys who engineered this stuff really were. I mean making a pictures by shooting electrons onto a screen and deviating them with varying voltage is nuts. Who would have thought of that? I’m always amazed.
Dial ups, Cathodic screens, Tapes, anything analogue really, is always fascinating.
Using that technology can be tiresome but I complain a minimum because that technology worked great in its time and without it, we would never have gotten to where we are now.
For me, not realizing that just makes you a spoilt brat. In 50 years, people will be laughing at LCD screens too.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:29:15 +0000

Actually, even though we’ve had cable internet for a long time now, I haven’t had cable TV until recently. In fact, I’ve got two or three of those TVs laying around the house right now. :)

By: kevoc2008

kevoc2008 — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:07:54 +0000

My grandparents still have old antenna to watch TV, but right now they got the DTV converter box. It does not make a lot of noise or static on the screen, but once in a while it get small boxes and the noise jumps as resulting in not really good signal. They also don’t have a computer.
I have a really old CRT monitor that was for Windows 3.11, but it works well in Windows Vista as a extended desktop for my laptop! I can’t believe it still works in today technology!

By: Daan Berg

Daan Berg — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:27:55 +0000

Yeah, my parents still use cathode raid tube TV’s, and I also use a CRT-screen for my computer, but that’s because my LCD-screen broke a year ago. Still, the image quality of the computer screen is pretty good.

Also, my parents only use VCR to record shows. So when they want to get a recorded TV-show on DVD, they need to pull out the VCR and give it to me, with the tape and an empty DVD…

But my parents are a little less technology-impaired than yours, I can hear. Well, see you later!

By: roalgumo7

roalgumo7 — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 02:57:21 +0000

Lol, it was funny, but I got to admit, I still have 2 tv’s with antena, and all are tv’s with that big glass, no flat screen or plasma or nothing. We don’t see much tv really, just the one that has stelite tv, and the ones that see it is my mom and my brother, my dad and me don’t watch much.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:23:43 +0000

When It comes to re using an old computer, my standard proceedure is to throw ubuntu on it, and then its good for another 4 years. I just did this for someone, whos computer was old enough that windows xp ran terribly on it. xp maxed out the ram and cpu, and there wasn’t a whole lot of hard disk space left on it. Ubuntu, used only about a 70mb base,and a few gigs of hd space. Ubuntu ran like a champ. Easily good enough for more years to come. Windows on a pc lasts maybe 4 years, ubuntu = 8 years easy.

As far as old media players….vcr’s are no problem. They are what i call, standard tech. Real hd players in the tech world are bigger tapes. They are around the size of vhs tapes, but hold many terabytes of data. Tapes are still used. As far as vinyl decks….they still sound the best. Discrete, solid state amps sound poor, vinyl’s or using a tube amp sound nice an warm.

As far as slow internet….i just carry my ubuntu laptop around, and when i encounter a dialup or slow connection…i just crack a wireless network, and share that connection via crossover cable to the computer that needs a speed boost. No biggie. In a world where 99% of people leave their linksys router at the defaults…or open…its free game.

By: endblockclip8

endblockclip8 — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:08:10 +0000

I’m the only one in my immediate family that uses “High Speed” internet. When my parents or siblings ask for help and I have to Download something I download it at home and load it on a flash drive rather than deal with Dial Up anymore. WAY to frustrating…

By: C.S. McClendon

C.S. McClendon — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:16:00 +0000

Heh.. You think its bad to have to deal with it while -visiting-? the only Tv signal we get here in my house is from an old set of rabbit ears. Beyond that I do have a VCR, to watch those movies I have yet to be able to find on disc.

By: Arthur Cochrane

Arthur Cochrane — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:50:47 +0000

That TV with the DTV tuner (get the $40 coupons) will work just fine next Februaru Chris. At least overthe air is not compressed like Comcast is compressing three HD channels into the 6MHz analog spectrum.

Chris, old stuff ans well as old people (like your parents) still works. Your parents are old, have you thrown then out just because they are old? Like the post above not every one has a six figure income and gets to sit at home all day and play with new stuff. We have real jobs to go to and earn a pay check to pay the bills each month.