A conversation about 'old stuff'.

[redwarrior]

I'm from the UK and to be honest i've never heard of a skillet,also a frying pan that could go in a oven,but then again i try to keep out of the kitchen as much as possible but thanks for the explaining to me

The very large heavy iron skillets are called dutch ovens. Very heavy cast iron; I can hardly lift the skillet and the lid together. This is not mine, but i have one just like it. It's about 80 years old.

I still have the bedroom suit that my parents had when they were first married. It's 55 years old, maybe even older. You just can't find furniture built like that anymore. I need to have it refinished. I will keep it forever.

 

[Tom B.]

Until a couple of months ago, I used a 12" PowerBook 867MHz which is now over 5 years old, and was the first Mac which was OS X only. And my mum still uses an iMac G3 SE 500MHz which is almost 8 years old. Also, while I don't use it everyday, I have an original Game Boy with Super Mario Land from 1990, the same year I was born.

Oh and my house is 102 years old. I still use that everyday.

 

[Silencio]

The speakers attached to my bedroom stereo -- some small, all-metal Radio Shack/Realistic bookshelf jobbies -- are going on nearly 30 years old and still sound great. Otherwise, I still have some books, records and CDs from when I was in high school and that's about it. And some floppy disks from my Apple //e which is unfortunately long gone.

 

[Neil321]

The very large heavy iron skillets are called dutch ovens. Very heavy cast iron; I can hardly lift the skillet and the lid together. This is not mine, but i have one just like it. It's about 80 years old.

Arr Ok red,but my idea of dutch ovens is to pull the covers up over the gf's head and fart

 

[redwarrior]

Arr Ok red,but my idea of dutch ovens is to pull the covers up over the gf's head and fart

I like mine better.

 

[Killyp]

Most of my stereo is 20+ years old:

I have quite a large collection of hifi actually, a lot of it is 30/40+ years old - and still sounds good compared to a lot of modern kit...

 

[SkyBell]

How about I talk about how I wish I had something old to talk about.

I found the coolest green clamshell iBook with WIFI at some used everything shop here and was begging my dad for it. He said no. What about the iMac? No. What about the MacClassic? Its MacCraptic. Expensive old crap


Italics are my dad.

Why can't I have a cool old mac? As for old anything else, they usually suck. I stick up for my old iPods though.

You gotta be sneaky. My parents don't know half the things I own.

 

[iJohnHenry]

I have a pair of Electro-Voice marquis base-reflex speakers that I purchased in '64.

They will run true on virtually nothing at all.

Will never willingly part with them.

 

[Queso]

I have on right now a pair of paratrooper boots I bought second hand from an Army Surplus shop in Lewisham in 1996

My guitar is also the same one I bought at age 17, in 1989.

 

[redwarrior]

This is a gas heater that is older than 80 years old, cause it's older than my dad. You can see the homemade thermostat on the side, that was added about 15 years ago. Heats so much better, and much more efficiently, than the new ones. I'll never part with it.

 

[NC MacGuy]

I use this nearly every day. This guy is at least 23 years old, made in U.S.A. and real steel with a few small plastic parts: