Yep, it's surprising how many kids have never seen a rotary dial phone these days.

It's this same CD-generation who have given me absolute blank looks when I talk about my collection of LPs, 45s, and 78s. I think I might as well have been talking about Martian technology for all they understood. [Linked Image] [Linked Image]

The lack of repairability (how's that for a word? [Linked Image]) of modern equipment these days must surely contribute to the decline in "learning by tinkering."

It's also a trend I find alarming that in an age when we're all being urged to conserve resources, recycle, etc., that so much equipment ends up as landfill for want of a 5-cent component in many cases. The economics of buying new vs. repair have just gone crazy.