Me and my wife watch laser discs, and I collect old computers. And one of my regular models is a 1993 computer with Windows 98 on it. I just love old technology, and I don't know what you would call that. I'm just stuck in 1991, '92.
The voice I use is a very old hardware speech synthesizer made in 1986. I keep it because I have not heard a voice I like better and because I have identified with it.
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!?
Back in the '40s and early '50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.
At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.
PHONOGRAPH, n. An irritating toy that restores life to dead noises.
I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
If someone wants to run a campaign about '90s nostalgia, it's not going to be very successful.
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.
My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.
I had 8-tracks when I was a kid.
My favorite computer of all time? The Apple II that got me started, of course.
I like the sound a typewriter makes.
I was a switchboard operator on the first season of 'Mad Men.' I was the oldest and bitterest.
The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!
I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.
To give you an idea about how old I'm getting, we had some family living in Texas for a while, and we went to the Texas museum at the University of Texas in Austin, and they had this whole Texas Instruments section, and my Speak & Spell was an exhibit in the museum.
I think my stuff's kind of obsolete now, you know? I'm making Model Ts or something, and everybody else is making spaceships.
I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.
I'm in general a nostalgic person, but I don't know if I'm nostalgic for the 80s!
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.
