Classic Boats and PCs

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From the small number of posts this forum receives it seems clear that most classic boat owners have yet to make it to the computer age.

Perhaps we would be better off with a large pinboard, some scraps of paper and a few old biros. That way information could be passed around just like it was in the good old days.
 

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I don't hold with your modern technology.Biros are often made of plastic and can be unreliable.I'll stick with chalking messages on a piece of offcut wood.
 

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Classic boaters probably spend more time cherishing, loving, mainitaining, scraping, sealing and sailing their boats and therefore spend less time in front of a PC. This could also be why their postings are often very short.
 

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Spectrum ZX, Amiga, BBC Electron, Acorn, C64

One possible reason is that they are still trying to keep classic computers running.

"I'm just popping out to the workshop, Doris. Got to carve a new 8" floppy disc drive from some well seasoned bakelite reclaimed from a Bush Stereogram."
 
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Actually Ken...

...I'm the proud co-owner of an old BBC Micro, a defunct PS/2 and a ZX spectrum as well as a 25-year-old car and nearly (fingers crossed for the survey) of a 50-year-old boat...

I like this forum. I assume people won't shout 'Don't do it!' at me in here when I talk about varnishing my boat or, for that matter, buying a wooden boat.

On a serious note, this made me realise that I was directing questions to PBO that would have been much better off in here. Perhaps I am not the only one.
 
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Semaphore aint a bad idea, the kids in my Naval Cadet unit learn morse as well as "modern" VHF proceedures, they all own mobile phones but when we are away for the weekend with the boats, talk to each other with morse and aldis lamps. Some of the looks we get defy description.

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absolute boll........derdash, if you compare the amount of technical questions asked about newer boats, you will see a patern developing.....more expensive toys-more time taken asking questions about how to operate them, or how to fix them.
with us sad old boat owners, we just use, abuse and make do. most of us do our own maintenance and repair, so we dont usually have to ask so many technical questions, just ones that either require opinions or views,so as to keep our boats serviceable and within keeping,as a classic boat should be.
lots of my boaty mates keep in touch by email,icq, and hotmail, but dont tend to post, as we sort most problems out using other communications.

but anyway cheers for the post andy, best regards steve.
 
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