Here's what I want, an RCA 25" dot matrix TV with 21 channels, 2-21 and all the old shows on.
A rotary phone.
All of the great old electronics shops that used to sell around here for fair prices.
The old stereo shops back with used sections.
The five newspapers that nused to sell here.
All computors to self-destruct as of 12 am tonight.
Everyone on the block to return to the old console magnavox stereo's everyone had and then actually played music on them; while they talked. Amazing that people used to talk.
Record stores with new artists people actually want to hear.
A 1964 Pontiac LeMans. With bucket seats and an FM radio playing Allison Steele or Steve Post.
A cassette recorder to record all that great music from the radio and play them in my car with the top down.

In the 70's and 80's, I loved new exciting technologies. Sometimes I still do, but more and more I have grown fond of "old school" stuff, for a lot of the same reasons you've described. Maybe it's nostalgia, maybe it's simplicity. But whatever it is, I sometimes yearn for an old phone that plugs into the wall and a car with breaker points. Who cares that I can't use them together.

Wayne's car sounds as good as it looks. I was admiring it at the sub shootout.

My step-dad had a '64 nova, 350 with dual double pumpers that we used to drag. Not incredibly fast, but in the 1/4 it would pin you to the seat. He got ticked at me one time cuz I twisted up the driveshaft.