People may think I have an aversion to technology or anything new....I always have things way past the use by date. I just hate to see things thrown away,there is always useful life left in things,there is always someone how could make good use of it,the planet needs me.... Telecom is stopping the old network,I have a year to go digital...my phone will be junk. My wife went to XT last year,and her old Palm Treo is now worthless...but not to me. Telecom didn't want to hook it up,they want this stuff gone,Now! Hey,it's not an iPhone,but it's too much a fancy phone to just throw away...so I've got a huge phone to carry around and pull out,I can text with a qwerty and use full stops and comas. I use my phone about once a month....but it's got a good calculator,maybe I'll get to use that more than the phone.
Yeah I know the feeling, I still miss my old Motorola Brick. It served many purposes, I could make phone calls on it, I could use it as an extension for my jack, I could use it as a hammer. It was a truly multipurpose tool
Use it up, wear it out. Y' gotta get all the goodness out of things.
One day my TV won't work anymore as its not didyatill....... than I'll have to get another bleedin' box to plug in.....
Don't get me started on that blurdy digital thing. Our TV's not even quite 30 years old yet, heaps of goodness left in it still, and now the blurdy gubbermint say it won't work any more . Well, it WILL work, just fine , but they (the idiot gubbermint) aren't going to be sending the proper signals. So a perfectly good TV set gets trashed.
apparently you just buy a wee boxy thing than takes the digyatill signal and makes it wavy so your telly can read it.....I threw out a perfect Makita drill because the batteries were going to be over 1/2 the price of a new drill...... the 50% tipping factor.....
you just buy How dare you mention money in a thread about bottom feeding! There will be someone who went digital 3 years ago who desperately needs to update to the latest black box which is silver this year....and slide controls are back in.
I threw out a perfect Makita drill because the batteries were going to be over 1/2 the price of a new drill...... the 50% tipping factor..... I recently bought a new Brother printer/scanner for $124 because to buy the cartridges for the old HP printer would have cost me $90 for the two cartridges and the old scanner had crapped out anyway
Fire up the 486, running OS/2, on occasion to compare whether or not my typing is quicker on the newer family computer running XP. Nope. Mind you I did get the "quicker" PEESEE for nothing as a family member was "upgrading". The 486 uses a smaller lcd screen I was given which is no where near as good as the CRT it replaced. I'm trying to get hold of a 286 to see if there is any difference on that.
I recently bought a new Brother printer/scanner for $124 because to buy the cartridges for the old HP printer would have cost me $90 for the two cartridges and the old scanner had crapped out anyway done that last w/end went to buy cartridges foe Lexmark $99-90 for a pair bought a epson with ink for $37-77 any one what a lexmark 510 series printer
Egads 286's and 486's.....next you guys will be comparing pencils...
I threw out my 18V Hitachi battery drill for the exact same reason. DeWalt is far better and you can get no name brand batteries for them cheap as.
You people pay money for printers ?? I find plenty of perfectly good dot matrix printers in every inorganic collection. By the time the ribbon is used up the next collection is due. I never pay for computer gear, you can get really good stuff free . And no one pays for software you can download anything you want nowadays. I reckon inorganic collections are the only useful thing that local government does.
Hey look! Train your kids from an early age to bottom feed just like dad;
the Hitachi batteries have a chip in them to prevent you using other batteries in their chargers........
