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How "Old School" are you?

Midlife

Midlife

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I suspect many of you are "old school": not using modern technology and sticking to the tried and true.

I'm very old school:
1. I still use Betamax VHS
2. I stick with cash when buying routine things and at restaurants, after my CC was stolen.
3. I have land-lines for phones, which are useful when hurricanes hit because all our phone lines are underground.
4. Have 2 tube TV's and one tube computer monitor.
5. I still use some computer applications from 1998, because they work, and I don't have to learn new sh!t when upgraded. I hate paying for upgrades.
6. I use checks all the time. If they end in an full dollar amount, I write "and nonsense". After 35 years, only 3 people have caught that.
7. I have wrenches and tools from the 30's that belonged to my father and grandfather. Much better quality than today!
8. I refuse to wear contacts.
9. These forums are the only social media I use, because everything else is a high security risk. BTW, never provide your birthdate in your forum profiles.

And get off my damn lawn, will ya? Kids...
 
Hell. This discribes me to a t. I love old school. Alot of the techies won't know how to function without modern tech
Lol
I chased two off my lawn today.
 
We techies do alright, leverage technology when it makes sense to get more wrench time with the Boss...
 
Midlife said:
I suspect many of you are "old school": not using modern technology and sticking to the tried and true.

1. I still use VHS and a roof antenna for local TV.

4. Have 1 tube tv

7. I have wrenches and tools from the 30's that belonged to my grandfather. Much better quality than today!

8. I refuse to wear contacts.

9. These forums are the only social media I use, because everything else is a high security risk. BTW, never provide your birthdate in your forum profiles.

And get off my damn lawn, will ya? Kids...
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I'm with you on these, even though I'm not nearly as old as all you geezers...
 
I'm old. I don't have a VHS anymore but it wasn't that long ago I still used one. I don't have a tube TV but I do have an old tube radio. I do have some really old tools from my dad and grand dad and an uncle (including an old engine lathe). We do still have a land line home phone but I also have a cell phone. I don't like upgrades either and put them off as long as possible. I don't tweet or any other social media but I do have a FB page. I like old school but also like some tech. I have a wireless printer that I use a lot. I just bought a TV that I can connect to wirelessly with my laptop so I can watch Roadkill on Motor Trend on demand from my computer. I recently added a light switch that has a built-in timer for my driveway light. So I guess I am just old...
 
Love this thread. I feel young again! Thanks, Mid!

I do have a "tube" tv but only because it has a built-in VHS and DVD player. Still have lots of VHS tapes of the kids when they were young. Word of advice, make sure to digitize any VHS recordings as those tapes degrade very badly.

I still have my very first Craftsman tool set. It is about 90% complete. Not bad for an early eighties buy of what was like their current 300 piece mechanics set. I took the time to engrave my initials on every single piece. Sockets and all. Bought them for my first factory maintenance job. Didn't want them to disappear to others boxes.

I get stuck behind people like Randy every once and a while at the store. Feel sorry for the young clerks. Its like they have never seen a check before every time somebody whips one out. Get a damn debit card already.

No social media and especially no Facebook page. No good comes from that crap. I've seen the horrors all too often of what can and does happen between my kids, their friends, my friends and co-workers. NEVER EVER WILL I.
 
Midlife said:
I suspect many of you are "old school": not using modern technology and sticking to the tried and true.

I'm very old school:
1. I still use Betamax VHS
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there is VHS, and betamax, there is no combination of both in one style. i still have VHS tapes, and i have a VHS player that includes a dvd player as well.

2. I stick with cash when buying routine things and at restaurants, after my CC was stolen.
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i use cash sometimes, though mostly these days i refuse to carry cash and just use my bank card. that way i can honestly tell beggars to dont carry cash.

3. I have land-lines for phones, which are useful when hurricanes hit because all our phone lines are underground.
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i have both a landline and a cell phone. no need to call family when i just want to get a quick question answered, or set up a time to hang out, just send a text.

4. Have 2 tube TV's and one tube computer monitor.
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no more tube type TVs for me, LCD screens now.

5. I still use some computer applications from 1998, because they work, and I don't have to learn new sh!t when upgraded. I hate paying for upgrades.
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i dont mind upgrades when they make sense. but i too have older applications that still work with windows 10

6. I use checks all the time. If they end in an full dollar amount, I write "and nonsense". After 35 years, only 3 people have caught that.
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no more checks for me when i can avoid it.

7. I have wrenches and tools from the 30's that belonged to my father and grandfather. Much better quality than today!
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i also have older tools as well.

8. I refuse to wear contacts.
9. These forums are the only social media I use, because everything else is a high security risk. BTW, never provide your birthdate in your forum profiles.
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i never wear contacts, i HATE anything touching my eyes, including the pressure sensor my eye doctor uses to test my eye pressure. and i hate socialist media, they can go bite big black ones as far as i am concerned.

in the end, i tend to be old school, but i also embrace he new technologies where needed. for instance when i finally get back to rebuilding my mustang and may falcon, i plan to install fuel injection on both engines, though not like modern engines.
 
1. I never liked how video tended to shmear the reds, or whatever you call that. I like film or blu-ray. Bought an Xbox 1S as much because it plays 4K movie discs as much as gaming.
2. Cash. A credit card I try not to use unless I'm traveling. Digital online credit account for the rest.
3. Landline isn't practical to divorce from my internet/TV/cable package. I use a cell. But I drive home past the phone company's junction box with its reassuringly big backup generator stationed outside everyday. Should something epic happen I know where my money is on which phone is most likely to be working the entire time.
4. I resisted for a long as I liked my multisync monitor. Finally gave over to an LCD monitor and it was downhill from there. I even have a 40" 1080P out in the garage. They all work fine so I've yet to be able justify a 4K TV to go with that Xbox. Yet.
5. My main PC quadruple boots. Cutting edge Win 10, daily driver Win7, moderate use and work Linux, and an Android OS I've been messing with (Remix)
I have a diskless (refuses to read hard disks) old laptop out in the shop running Ubuntu. Another PC that runs Win 98 (and DOS!) My rarely used tablet was Android 4.4 but after rooting and unlocking it, it now runs much better with a custom Android 6.0 ROM. I have a Timex-Sinclair 1000. I haven't used in many years but I did and still have it.
6. Checks. No, see #2.
7. I have a beam type torque wrench I suspect to be older than I am that works fine. I also have the latest and greatest digital angle torque wrench that's great but what I paid for it still makes me cringe. Got my granddad's old two-man crosscut tree saw. Not feeling cutting any hardwood these days but it works a treat on pines and such if somebody wants to grab the other end and work up some blisters. Also got a sharp axe and know how to use that too. If I'm in a hurry there's a big and a little chainsaw. All mentioned are sharp and ready to go. I sharpen and maintain them myself. My other tools are kinda like that and everything in between.
8. I like contacts but usually switch to glasses on weekends. Depends on what I'm doing.

Flexible. Old, new, whatever best suits the project at hand. Except the video stuff. I just LOVE that high resolution. When I find time to watch anything.
 
I prefer the old but grudgingly convert to new when the old dies. Its the cycle of life.

My dad gave me a Craftsman tool set when I graduated from high school in 68 with an old beam torque wrench. I have tools from Dad and my Father-in-law and a pipe threading set from Granddad.

I have a land line because I won't give a credit card number over the my cell.

Checks are too easy to steal and change, but credit cards are protected (you get your money back) and you can always get another card if the number gets stolen. I buy almost everything on a credit card- not a debit card, because it is not protected.

All the tube monitors and TVs have long since died, but I still have a working VHS.

I have four computers that are used regularly, one of which runs XP. That is a great machine- a very stable platform for running CAD. Its starting to give me problems so I tested the 1998 version of CAD on a WIN 7 machine and happily it still runs. I don't like learning new software just to keep programmers in a job.

My wife prowls the internet daily and has lots of issues with viruses, but she insists on using Windows. I gave that up years ago and went to Linux Ubuntu on the advice of my Daughter-in-law who has a masters in computer science. Linux operates differently than Windows and there is no need to run an anti-virus; and by the way its free software. Stick that up your posterior Microsoft!

This is my only social media, because Facebook and the like are too intrusive and too big a risk, and no I never give my real birth date. I never keep anything that I don't want stolen on a machine that talks to the internet.

I don't mind the neighbor kids getting on the lawn...as long as they don't pee on it!
 
I still have subscriptions to car magazines (way too many), and I read my books the old fashioned way; ink on paper!

I like real metal keys for my cars...not some wireless "FOB" with a "start" button on the dash.

I own 3 manual shift cars, and 3 automatics, but I prefer the manuals. One of the manuals is "3 on the tree"! (the ultimate millennial anti-theft device!)
 
GrabberOrange69 said:
.... One of the manuals is "3 on the tree"! (the ultimate millennial anti-theft device!)
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my 18 year old son owned a 67 Chevy van with a three on tree, a rare millennial that not only can drive a manual but the three on the tree and it was his vehicle!
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Unfortunately all my cars are currently auto but my tractor is manual (the wife's tractor is an auto). It has 12 forward gears and 3 reverse.
 
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