I usually use this analogy when talking about radio equipment...
... but it's literally true, too.

Would you prefer to cross the desert in an old Landrover, or a new Landrover?
(gordonjcp, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 7:39, 2 replies)

On a unicycle

( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 8:25, closed)

The Reason
for an old Landrover (which is probably the same reason you prefer old radio gear) is that, if it goes wrong in the middle of nowhere I have a fair chance of being able to fix it. Or it least jerry-rig it so I could get back to civilisation.

I might not have had a driving license but I've been tearing engines apart and rebuilding them since I was 14. It's the computer controlled engines which I can't fix. Not without the software and cables. But give me a car, the Haynes manual for it and a few basic tools, and I'll have the bastard running in a jiffy.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 10:23, closed)

that may be the case you wizzy superhero you, but there is a reason no one drives them here...
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 10:34, closed)

And Here is....

( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 10:52, closed)

I agree
older vehicles are brilliant, a phwack with a hammer and the twist of a screwdriver and your good to go, but if a chip blows in a modern vehicle your stuck. (This apparently was the reason my brothers car was running as if it was on fumes with a full tank, something to do with the computer controlled fuel injection thingymabob).
(Sadarse works like Mist condensing mud flaps, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 10:43, closed)

Exactly
same with my old (1983)hilux diesel.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 12:10, closed)

Now here is a sensible vehicle.
( enoughblueskyforsailorstrousers, Wed 16 Feb 2011, 17:38, closed)