Actually. it was more like a Citroen 
And I’m sure not something he would want to do with any great frequency.
According to Wiki, the Suzuki G engines that the Metro had:
They stopped using carburetors in 1988.
Cite? It’s actually the opposite, although it’s true that modern automatics are pretty damn close. (Note that also many cars with manual trans have an extra gear, too)
Equally as “obsolete” in 1999 as today. Printers weren’t as inexpensive as today, but all but the smallest professional offices had laser printers, and ink jet printers were relatively affordable ($150 or so for a basic model). Typewrites were, and are still on hand for completing forms, and they’re still popular among the more technophobic elderly.
125 posts and no one’s mentioned the CueCat?
In my experience one doesn’t need to install Windows 98 first, you just install the Windows XP upgrade first, and the installer will ask almost right away for the OS to upgrade, the installer allows you to remove the XP disk to insert the Windows 98 installer disk to “sniff” if you have a valid disk. Once confirmed, one ejects the Windows 98 installer and re inserts the XP upgrade disk to continue.
After I got a full version of XP pro I never had to do that trick again.
Yes…most video arcades are now those games where you try to win tickets for some crappy prize.
Distributor =! breaker points.
The last set of breaker points inside a distributor here in the US was 1974. In 1975 federal regs allowed only one major service in the first 50,000 miles and it was history for points that only last about 12K. From 1975 on it is all electronics.
Distributors are going away as coil on plug systems become more popular, but there are still a few distributors out there.
What about the iPod Touch? I would have bought an iPhone, but I didn’t want AT&T service.
Yeah, if you leave town often enough, shortwave can be a lifesaver. For a good chunk of the world, shortwave radio is the only source of reliable news.
I spent two years in a Cameroonian village, and I listened to BBC Network Africa every morning- without that I would have had to rely on months-old copies of Newsweek, unreliable National radio stations, or Internet that I could get to once a month. And it’s not all just fun and games- two Februarys ago I learned through the BBC that Cameroon was rioting, and that I needed to stay secure and make sure my friends farther out in the bush could get within cell-phone range.
I have many fond memories of sitting in my yard, fiddling with the antenna, picking up strange and distant broadcasts. Good times!
They’re still very popular here in Australia- when I worked full-time in electronics retail we’d sell at least three a week (from a fairly small store) and fax ribbons were one of our staple items. Nearly every business I’ve worked for had (and regularly used) a fax machine, too.
As for the OP: My nomination is hand-held TVs. You used to be able to get palm-sized portable TVs that you could take camping (or to boring functions/parties where you didn’t know anyone) and still be able to watch your favourite TV shows/sporting matches. I haven’t seen one in a “brick-and-mortar” store here for many, many years and whilst I know that you can watch TV over the internet on your phone now, it’s not quite the same thing.
My Jetta has electric steering as well. And although it feels smoother than hydraulic, I much prefer hydraulic and will avoid electric in the future. My principal objection is the lack of feedback you get through the wheel with electric. If hydraulic power steering goes the way of the Dodo, I’m not going to be happy.
We use the fax machine at work literally dozens of times everyday. I can’t think of many of our vendors who do not use their fax machines regularly. Actually, I am in the process of updating our current machine. The fax, at least in my world, is well and alive and not about to be antiquated anytime soon.
Hm. I’ll have to try it that way next time.
CD changers in cars.
Didn’t mean to imply they were the same. My last set of breaker points was my 1968 Beetle. My last distributor was (I think) my 1995 Civic. Maybe the 2001 Ranger had a distributor (old platform).
Great catch! I still have two CD changers snuck away in some corner of my apt but I guess they’ll never see the day of light again. I was wondering if I could rig them to do do something useful like convert them to be CD-ROM jukeboxes.
Hookers and drug dealers also prefer cash, as do strippers, rather than debit/credit cards. Or so I’m told.
Hell, that thing was obsolete (for its intended use) practically when it came out. It’s found much use to this day, though, as a consumer-level barcode scanner-- nearly every collector’s database I use recommends using a CueCat to scan in your collection (DVD, laserdiscs, video games, etc.). Cheapest barcode scanner on the market, pretty much.
Its uselessness kind of reminds me of a computer peripheral from ~1992 or so, a pyramid-shaped device that picked up news data through radiowaves and displayed them on your computer. Can’t remember its name… It seemed utterly pointless at the time, as even then if a computer user had the means to use it, they could just as easily hit a fledgling news site on the WWW. For years, I kept seeing the peripheral in online closeout/junk catalogues, and thought about getting one for kicks.