No cel-phone?
I’m so primitive, I only have one cell.
Close. No cell, pager, iPod, PDA, MP3 player, laptop, or cable/Sat TV, but we do have a cable modem. All but one of our phones are hardwired. We don’t have Caller ID, or voice mail. Our freezer still has the installation tag from 1954.
Ha! I am currently speaking through an anthropologist who is converting my grunts and crotch scratches into words. Apparently if I learn five more words, he’ll teach me how to make a “fire.”
I carry a pager for work. Otherwise:
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I don’t have a dishwasher.
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My trucks have only a couple of transistors in the ignition and radios. I laugh at OBD.
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No AC in either truck (in Texas.) Power steering in the 3/4 ton only.
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There’s a microwave in the kitchen, but no electric can opener.
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I used a stone axe to carve our house out of a single tree trunk, and roofed it with hand-tanned armadillo hides.
I still use an tube-based analog computer. I prefer the texture of its rich, warm, and fuller processing over the cold and sharp results from modern binary computers.
Ah, so you’re RFC2549-compliant? 
Well, I could have used no A/C but I live in Seattle…
But, how could I ever outdo Trunk, the amoeba? :dubious:
not only does my car not have a/c, electric or power anything or central locking… it doesn’t even have a light that tells you when you’re running out of petrol.
I don’t even have a garage. And an electric can opener? how many cans are people opening that they need an electrified device…
Even though I work as a computer programmer, I don’t own a computer! I only browse on work time
I cannot, however, live without a mobile phone.
My computer is made out of twist ties and refrigerator magnets.
The display is a cluster of honeybees on an electrified grid.
The electricity comes from my pet electric eels. They are not in a hovercraft, as I don’t have one.
I also have:
No lights
No phone
No motor car
Not a single luxury!
At school, I’m pretty technologically primitive. Resident Hall Rooms (p.c. for dorm rooms) include cable and a landline, but I opted not to plug my television into cable this past year and I loved it! My television and VCR (both hand-me-downs from my older sister’s college days…I probably wouldn’t have spent the money on them myself) were in my closet for most of the year. Around mid-March, my friend and I found “The Breakfast Club” and “Schoolhouse Rock: How a Bill Becomes a Law” in a pawnshop just off campus and with movies like that lying around, it was damn near impossible not to pull out the television then.
As far as my computer, I did get a laptop for highschool graduation which is what I primarily use. In February, it had a little accident (okay, so I spilt water on it…) and didn’t end up getting it back until I came home for summer. I did use on-campus computer labs a fair amount though.
Other than the laptop, your list could belong to me. I don’t have a car and use my bicycle a fair amount for local travel. Also, there’s a kitchen on my hall at school, but I’ve found that an iron works just as well as a stove. I will admit to using endless amounts of quarters in the washing machines and dryers provided.
Most of the gadgetry that my peers have, I don’t. I kind of like it though. It was nice to realize that I could keep myself occupied without a computer or a television on hand.
-Mosquito
OMG! I heat my house with computers and gadgets!
I have:
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[li]1 DVD player[/li][li]1 Palm Pilot[/li][li]2 VCRs[/li][li]2 Cell phones[/li][li]2 MP3 players (they actually belong to the girls)[/li][li]2 Laptops (soon to be 3)[/li][li]3 TVs[/li][li]3 Video Cameras[/li][li]3 Digital cameras[/li][li]4 Dish receivers (1 with PVR, 1 hooked to a computer)[/li][li]4 game systems[/li][li]4 GPSs[/li][li]7 Computers (Networked and sharing DSL)[/li][/ul]
no dishwasher and my car doesn’t have a working radio (67 Mustang (is that a girlie car?))
Pfft, amateurs.
I post on the Straight Dope using UNIVAC!
My family owns, currently:
Three desktop computers,
Four TVs,
A Gamecube and a PS2,
Five radios / alarm clocks,
A microwave,
A dishwasher,
An iPod,
2 DVD players,
One VCR,
Full lighting and central air-conditioning system,
And a vacuum.
Wow, we’re pretty savvy. 
A crotch? Luxury! I’m a nest of ant’s running through glass pipes. I didn’t even have captial letters of punctuation until they added in the new Ram’s skull.
- I don’t have a cell phone, or cordless phone.
- I don’t have a pager.
- I don’t have an iPod.
- I don’t have a PDA.
- I don’t have an MP3 player.
- I don’t have a laptop computer.
- use a 56K dialup modem.
- We don’t have cable or satellite TV.
- I have 2 tv’s, but one has a shot picture tube so it has no picture, but the audio is fine.
- i didn’t have a car until i was 29. I still have a turntable(for records).
I don’t have a cell phone. Check
I don’t have a pager. Check
I don’t have an iPod. Check
I don’t have a PDA. Check
I don’t have an MP3 player. Check
I don’t have a laptop computer. Check
Our home PC is on a 56K dialup modem. Check
We don’t have cable or satellite TV. I have cable so you’ve got me beat, but I uset it mostly just to watch american football in the fall.
Great reference.
The only things on your list I’ve never had are a pager and an i-pod. I’m not one of these Mac-geeks. I will probably never own a Macintosh computer of any kind.
I had a pda but I broke it.
I only have a mobile out of necesity… I refuse to behave like the majority of mobile phone users I experience… who lose all sense of awareness, direction, and consideration when they have their mobile in hand.
I have a laptop because I thought I’d get into the habit of taking it everywhere. I was dead wrong.
Since I broke my pda my mp3 player is my laptop.
My internet connection is broadband 512k. Manxnet are considering free upgrade to 2mb for all broadband customers… get a bloody move on manxnet!
I have a dial-up connection. I do have Dish network - I just got it in January, but I don’t have:
Cell phone
Pager
PDA/MP3/iPod
Laptop
Central heat or air (ice in my toiilet in the middle of winter is a killer! I do have a couple propane space heaters)
Insulation in my house (hopefully soon to be remedied, along with the heat and air)
Electric can opener/blender (I do own a couple of mixers - I like to bake my own bread)
Same as you except my dialup modem is 33K.