Computer solitaire.
Perhaps you could define “old timer”?
It is not surprising, but disappointing, that the mods here are so vicious on sexism and racism but never say a thing about agism.
My father got one of those web-tv devices when he was in his early 80s; he used the thing to send email to his grandkids. After my mother died, my sister and I got him a PC. We didn’t do him that big of a favor; it was an H-P with Windows ME that was on sale at a ridiculously low price. He spent hours trying to research his genealogy. I don’t think he ever got too far but it sure kept him busy; he really seemed to love it.
Two reasons for my father-in-law. The first was that he was a commodities broker after retiring as a teacher, and had theories about when to make trades. I taught him enough BASIC (at 65) so he could put them into a Radio Shack handheld computer.
The second reason was to write music with music word processors (he uses Sibelius). He’s still using PCs at 92 for this. His hands aren’t very good any more, and he’d have to stop composing without it.
I’ve never been able to convince my father to go near a computer, though.
I cannot even begin to imagine what a Hickory Farms kiosk in a Las Vegas mall might look like.
I have a friend whose father got interested in computers because he realized it’d be a convenient way to keep up with his buddies from the ship he served on in WWII. I’d say that’s a good reason.
For my dad, it was porn.
The Wii has caused my father-in-law to start playing video games with his grandson. Specifically he enjoys the golf and bowling on Wii Sports.
Marc