What old technology won't you give up

The Clutch.

How about Tom (Cheap Trick) Petersson’s 12-string bass? What’s up w’dat?

Tube Amps are superior.

Many, many musicians have gone back to tube amps for their warm sound.

Yep. I’m driving a stick again, after years in the automatic transmission desert.

Ditto what others have said about books, physical copies of recorded music and standard measurements (inches, ounces, pounds etc.). I switch back and forth between metric at work and non-metric at home, effortlessly.

I understand you are far from alone, at least in the English-speaking world.

Real Eudora, before it got Thunderbird-ified? That might be good…

I’m not a bass player, but I take it one step further; electric doesn’t do anything for me either. I’ll listen happily if you’re playing, but I avoid playing in public anything that plugs in.

Practicality.

Here’s my fun bass. I use it for playing Bossa Nova with my wife on piano.

But it’s not something I want to cart around.

I think books is about the only thing I’m old school about. Oh, and I like stick shift on my cars.

I’m a photographer, and couldn’t wait till everything got all digitial. I mean, I like prints still, but for taking photos? Digital all the way for me. Music? I do prefer acoustic instruments, but they’re all too loud to play at any time of day, so I have some keyboards, digital drum set, etc. For recorded music, I am absolutely done with physical media. TV, movies? Give it to me streaming or downloadable. Don’t want to deal with DVDs or Blu-rays or whatever they use these days.

Books, newspapers, and magazine

I play chess with some of my coworkers on a traditional board with a timer. There is something about the look and feel of the pieces.

Wristwatches. Yes, I know my smartphone has a clock. I also know that my smartphone’s battery lasts 12 hours, tops. If I spend a lot of time that day texting or web surfing, the battery goes flat real fast and I can’t tell the time. A watch battery can last up to a decade. The watch I’m wearing now? Sixty years old and still runs as a champ.

Oh, yeah…newspapers. Nothing beats sitting on the porch with a cup of coffee and the Washington Times. An iPad just isn’t the same.

Ah yes… the metric system.

Fahrenheit temps are very well suited to weather, and that’s the way I like my temps.
Miles are much more satisfying for distance than Kilometers.

But if practicality asserts itself I happily use the other units–contrary to the belief of the rest of the world, most Americans know how to deal with metric units, especially when they are doing science.
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The imperial vs. metric debate is a standard flame war in machinist circles, and a stupid one:
I can’t change to metric without replacing tens of thousands of dollars in tooling and machines. I can’t find metric anything in local stores. We all make the same stuff given the same set of drawings–at the end of the day we are all measuring in hundredths (mm) or thousandths (in) of a base unit, far from the original units. So why am I inferior to a European machinist? Ugh!
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I still know a couple people on Eudora, shame it isn’t being updated any more. It doesn’t display many emails properly any more, and when you reply the quoted text has a bunch of weird “A” characters in it.

I’ve moved on to Thunderbird, which isn’t quite as good but gets me by. But it’s a dead program too. :frowning:

Pretty much covered by others…

Print media (books, newspapers)

Wristwatches.

Persistently-recorded, as opposed to streamed, media on a dedicated format — which means, sure, CD/DVD/BluRay but also MP3 players/pods that actually contain the recording within them. The big point being “network connection not required”. And this ties in to…

…Locally-resident software, licensed at purchase, not suscribed from the cloud. Again, so I can do things unplugged from the network.
Where available, a twisted-pair copper wire telephone landline. Not even Hurricane Maria took that dial tone from me even as the cell network was dying.

I definitely agree on offline software and MP3 files. I won’t be giving up either willingly.

This - and a pull starter.

A photographer friend of mine has a neat little gadget. It’s a digital camera that spits out a little Polaroid instant pic kinda like a proof, and then you still have the digital image too.

I don’t understand what you mean about electronic keyboards being “just toys”. Some are, of course, but some are serious tools.

We have one of those (Polaroid Snap Digital), and the problem is both the instant photo and the digital photo both stink. Our Fuji Instax does better instant photos (which are still a lot of fun with kids and at parties, etc…) and our Canon P&S and DSLR both take dramatically better digital photos.