MtheGM:- dial telephones still work - I plugged one in last week to check if there was a dialling-tone on my failing line - they just don't produce the tones necessary to respond to automatic payment processes.

Still using cassettes in my ten-year-old car - and re-discovering lots of music I haven't been able to play since the player in the previous car died five years ago (I still have cassette players and recorders in the house, but mostly inaccessible). And I'm wondering where my cassette splicer is, and will the splicing tape still work so I can fix the Ran-Tan Band cassette I bought from Dave Mallinson at Whitby last year?

I was happy to find that my ten-year-old laser printer could be reloaded with toner from a bottle for a couple of pounds, when I used to shell out about £60 for a toner cartridge.

I am about to part with a Bang & Olufsen CRT TV which I haven't been able to get to work (no remote, no switches I can find on the set) if anyone wants to take it on.

Things aren't necessarily obsolete because other people have no use for them - cf traditional music for a start!

Ross