Last time I got a new stereo (uh, 5 years ago now?) I insisted on getting one with a double tape-deck so I could copy from tape to tape - even though everyone was telling me tapes were obsolete and blah blah. Well, I've copied from tape to tape more than a couple of times since getting it, so it was totally worth it to me :o) ! (And it has cd-player, too, so it wasn't like it was tape-deck only.)

And talking about old-tech: my vhs-tape for recording Buffy and CSI and other sordid programs were getting mighty shaky from being recorded over time again. Vhs-tapes are stupidly expensive here, so I was annoyed at the thought of having to purchase a new one. Then! I remembered I had an only-watched-once copy of Training Day (bad movie) - and stuck a piece of wood into that hole to make it recordable and taped it over. Voilà, fresh tape to record on!