Conventional vacuum gauges are unlikely to fill emerging needs for accurate measurements below the mid 10E-10 Torr range. There is also an unmet need for rugged, accurate, inexpensive sensors operating in the low micron range. The solutions may lie in the development of modern versions of gauges now found mainly in the pages of the more arcane textbooks. Laboratory evaluations are given for a number of original and updated gauges likely to be useful in modern applications. For the UHV range these include the extractor, modulated Bayard-Alpert, and X-Ray-neutralized Bayard-Alpert gauges, plus several variants of the inverted magnetron and magnetron cold-cathode gauges. For the micron range, test results are given for thermistor, viscosity and molecular drag gauges. The need for fresh approaches to vacuum gauging is particularly important at this time, when the recent trend has been to restrict commercial production to a few of the most popular general-purpose types. Formation of a users' group to encourage continued production and development of reliable UHV gauges is suggested.