it's not too hard.
You go and find the absolute cheapest stove/oven you can find.
you might have to special order that model in from your favorite appliance 
retailer, but they'll be able to provide something that has regular knobs 
and buttons.
Our stove uses very flat buttons, on a smooth screen for the clock and timer 
controls.  You can still feel where the button is to some extent, but 
they're hard to feel.
washers and dryers are also going very much the way of either touch screen, 
very flat buttons behind a plastic film on a screen, or menu driven options 
especially on the washing machines.
it's difficult to find something that has regular old knobs with a skirt 
around the edge that you can label for various cycles and times and so on.
Our apartment building lawndry room has washers and dryers that are totally 
button and LCD screen controled.
not to mention they add in the complexity of a lawndry card that shows you 
how much you have left on the card and so on.
73
Colin, V A6BKX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harvey Heagy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 9:00 AM
Subject: Re: D-star?


> What I can't understand is how can apartment complexes find analog
> appliances that are supposed off the market or very nearly so?  My complex
> replaced my push button stove with one with knobs at the beginning of this
> year.  It has knobs on the top back rather than push buttons on the front 
> as
> well as a knob controlled thermostat for the oven.  How is it that they 
> can
> find those, but we can't?  And digital wouldn't be so bad if they had more
> audible cues.
> Harvey