Fashion is fleeting and technology, much more. However, in the era of smart phones and ultra-thin TVs, some people insist on making their calls for dial telephones installed in their homes and watch TV in white on black
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Why?
Several of these techies apparently expires they are obsolete explained to the BBC what they like to use devices of old.
Television gray
A John Thompson likes to watch TV both in black and white that managed to connect your decoder . digital in a receiver built in 1949
“There is nothing strange for the color, but sometimes watch some sports is a little uncomfortable,” he said.
Thompson also explained that their efforts have to do with nostalgia and recognize the efforts of the pioneers of television.
He grew up with television studios of the BBC and that I became a fan of what was happening in that place .
Currently it has 20 old TVs at home in North London, and is one of the 11,500 people who continues to see black and white television in the UK, according to the registration office TV license.
“I still can not resist looking into old with the hope of finding an abandoned television buildings,” said Thompson.
Polaroid Camera
“The Polaroid I have the shape of the cartoon called the Tasmanian devil,” he told the BBC Laura Millward, an enthusiastic of old instant cameras revealed.
“When you open the camera and take the picture, the fangs of the monster appears and that makes people smile naturally,” Millward said.
She bought the camera in a charity shop eight years ago, but when using it noticed a problem: Polaroid had stopped producing the film and the only thing available-past-maturity date was in eBay .
“The role could still be used, but a little dark out. What was good at one time, because the colors seemed much closer to those of 1970″ .
During its heyday, Polaroid photos, appeared before your eyes 20 seconds after taken. But now Millward must save the movies in the darkness of her bag for 40 minutes before they appear.
So why not use a digital camera?
“Because each piece of film is very expensive and hard to find, and each photo is like a treasure, even if it goes a little damaged.”
Phone Disk
When Glenys Crampton Birch Hall bought the hotel in 1981, she thought the old phone that was in the room was only “an ornament”.
However, the old system had been installed in 1938, continued to function.
“When you speak it seems that the person was eating. And sometimes playing cry for you to understand, “Crampton said, 63.
When was installed over 80 years ago, was the only phone in the village of North Yorkshire and was put on the room for people to use it.
Although I had a replacement shortly that Crampton took the house, she decided to keep it.
And even need occasional repairs, phone continues to be used
“We have no cell signal in this part of town. Sometimes people ask me to use. So we left there for people to make use of it” , told
He added. “… I love the sound can be heard a small bell until it stops I feel great to have an old phone that still works”
typewriter
When the reporter Terry Eyelets began his career in journalism in 1948, the notes had to be written by hand.
But his parents gave him portable typewriter and enrolled in a course to learn to use it, which by then was “full of girls”.
Now with 84 years, and thousands of models of computers and word processors available, he prefers to write his notes on his old typewriter, even though ago much noise.
“I’m a dinosaur. I belong to the twentieth century”, Eyelets, who presents the program of nostalgia in a radio station said.
Eyelets continues to the first draft of his program in his old Olympia typewriter.
“It’s easier for me to write on this machine. And it reminds me of newsrooms smoky and full of talks,” he said.
“Sometimes I think that computers have made people stop talking and cursing in the newsroom. Nothing is like before.”
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