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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
He's in his early 60s. He isn't that out of touch, except that he a few believes that are just plain wrong, and never were right.
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My father is in his 70's, and some things he believes are just... uh.... unrealistic. Some other things he believes were true, somewhere in the 1960's.
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LOL, the store's got a reasonable new fusebox. But the house still has one with the screw-in fuses, though we do have the resettable versions inserted. But that's only logical, since we have an electro technical store and sell fuseboxes (like the painter whose house needs painting and the doctor that never has a check-up). My father has been planning on replacing the fusebox for years now, we usually have one on the shelf in the store downstairs. But it just hasn't happened.
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That's the entire problem with that sort of technology. It lives for a very long time, so it looks like it never breaks.
"Don't fix it if it's not broken." At some point, there are problems, but they can still be fixed. Then replacement gets postponed for so long that *when* it finally breaks, the house burns down.
I've seen something similar with the keyboard/organ/piano guy around here. He sells digital instruments, and also does trade-ins. He has some old instruments, made 10-15 years ago, that are perfectly fine, except for the fact that they contain a disk drive instead of USB.
I've said a hundred times: for the instruments that are worth it (huge home organs, digital grand piano's) invest in a floppy emulator that takes SD-cards. It costs €100. That amount of money makes no difference with an instrument that cost €40K back then, and still kosts €8-10K now.
I even wrote him a manual on how to replace the drives, based on a replacement I did a few years ago when I still had a home organ.
No, he just leaves the disk drives in there, and the only thing he does is complain how hard (and expensive) it is to find new diskettes to give customers. "I have to order diskettes to give to customers, because I can't find them around here anymore, and without them, all the registration options of those instruments are useless."
Yeah, right. Everybody except one or two manufacturers have quit making them, and nobody stocks them anymore because nobody has a need for them. All the machinery that is still useful (machinery in a production facility) has long been moved to disk drive emulation; at least, if the owners of the plants are smart enough.