I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it’s a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?
Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books
I have the original Kindle fire. You can have it for free. It even has a micro HDMI port.
Why thank you, I’ll take it off your hands.
DM me and pay the shipping. I will send it usps priority.
Same and I got it second hand too, it is really convenient and works great with calibre.
I’m still rocking a Zune and a flip phone.
I still use my Zune HD for tunes in the helmet whenever I go skiing. 15 years old and still rockin’.
I recently bought a Pioneer PD-F905 101 CD player. It’s 30 years old and I absolute love it. It needed a lot of cleaning (mostly nicotine and tar), but after that it worked like a charm again
Rackmount Pioneer timer system from the 70s, rocks. 1981 Sony EQ integrated, rocks. 80s Pioneer single tape deck, not installed. Yet.
Doorknobs.
Yuck.
Wheels.
I have a large collection of game consoles, with several being older than myself. Just to list the ones that are at least 20 years old:
- NES
- PC Engine (Core Grafx II)
- Game Boy
- Genesis (Model 2) + Sega CD (Model 2)
- SNES
- Game Gear
- Saturn (Model 2)
- PlayStation
- Nintendo 64
- Game Boy Pocket
- Game Boy Color
- Dreamcast
- WonderSwan Color
- PlayStation 2
- Game Boy Advance
- GameCube
- Xbox
I also have some old A/V stuff, like a small collection of CD Walkmans and most of the pieces in my stereo system (the turntable is new, but everything else is pretty old). I buy a lot of old electronics from thrift stores because I really just love playing with them.
You have a WonderSwan Color? That’s so cool, I always wanted one.
It is a neat little machine. Mine’s orange and I modded it with an IPS screen (because I’ve been spoiled by modern backlit screens). My main reason for buying it was for Klonoa.
I’m hurt that you have no Atari.
No, wait, I’m hurt that you said some are older than you and you have nothing from before I was 14 or so.
No, wait, I’m hurt because I’m old and my joints ache.
I am sorely lacking in Atari. I would’ve had one if my grandparents hadn’t thrown out my dad’s 2600 when they were cleaning out their attic.
I’m only a little older than Saturn and PlayStation (based on their Japanese release dates). I get what you mean though. It’s definitely weird when you realize that there are adults that have never experienced the things that were integral aspects of your own childhood. I have cousins who’ve never used a VCR, meanwhile I still have the one our grandfather bought me in the late 90s.
I bought some pencils and paper last night. Gonna write something stuff down, while using my chair to sit at my desk, in this house.
So much old technology that I rely upon.
Still have the first computer I bought with my own money, and it still works. It’s an Amiga 500 from 1991. I fire it up and play ancient games with it once in a while, on the ancient 1084s CRT monitor.
Also had one of the super rare A3000T’s but unfortunately the battery corroded the motherboard while I had it stored away. I didn’t even learn about that problem until researching what had gone wrong with my beautiful Amiga tower. C’est la vie. At least I was able to get an image of the 120MB SCSI hard drive, which I can boot up in an emulator and relive the glory days of 1993.
just games? i miss apps like deluxe paint 4, octamed, brilliance!, audiomaster II, and of course the demo scene.
I did lots of stuff with them back in the day besides games! Rendered some space ship flybys in Imagine, made custom icons for everything on my workbench, ripped sounds and quotes from my favorite movies, even ran my own BBS for a couple years.
But whenever I turn it on these days it’s just playing a few games and listen to some MODs. It’s just a nostalgia machine now. 😁
My modded 3ds + modded Wii U system I have a very large library of games that I can run on both systems + I got a lot of controllers for local-couch sessions.
What modifications can be done on wii u? I have one and would like to use all games that i can get without paying i also have homebrew on it.
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Colt .45 Government Model, 2022 model. Same pistol that won two world wars. TWO WORLD WARS! Seriously though, it’s a little freaky that a 114-yo design is still flawless. I have the Valentine’s Day patent printed on canvas. My wife is Filipino, they’re 1911 fanatics, IYNYN. (Yes, people say they can be problematic. Those people have knockoffs.)
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No idea how old my Sony receiver/amp is, 15-yo? LOL, never even touched all the options on that thing, drives my whole sound system, including remote speakers in the kitchen. Karaoke is badass no matter which way you face!
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1981 Sony EQ. Rocks out, little tetchy if you touch it wrong (BLAOOOW!), but sitting still once adjusted, perfection.
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70s Pioneer, rackmount timer system. Not in use but as a clock, stupid cool for the $20 I gave.
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80s (?) Pioneer single tape deck. Not installed yet!
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Remington 1895 10-gauge, Damascus-steel shotgun, made in the same year. It’s the crappiest version, looks like the hillbilly’s gun from Loony Tunes, fun as hell, only safe with birdshot. (It was made for black powder, not modern explosives.)
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20-gauge generic “trade gun” from the 20s. Modern take, “made in China under assorted brand names, same damned unit, stamp a new name on it”. Light, never fails to fire, sometimes pops apart after firing. Easy to disassemble!
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1999 486SX running Windows 98 on a jerry-rigged SSD. Originally an industrial control box, only ever seen 1 video about the beast, stupid rare. Blew the network drivers, still working on it.
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1970s or 80s Revelation brand pump 12-gauge. Took me weeks to figure out it’s just a Mossberg rebranded to sell in Western Auto stores. Yes, auto stores sold shotguns in the day.
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Sawed off (legal), double-barrel, 12-gauge “coach gun” from 1890 or so. Some guy refurbished it, love the look, dead sexy, no good as an antique.
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Assorted crappy shotguns (old sampler for a pic) from every decade except the 1910s and 1930s, I think. Hard/impossible to research, records lost, factory burned or recycled for paper in WWII.
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Watches! Wore my 1987 Swatch today. Assorted Casios, new and old, including the “terrorist” version. Wife got me a sweet one yesterday, probably not 10-yo, doesn’t count?
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My body, circa 1971 or so.
IFYNYN
Usually things like this don’t bother me this much, but this… Did you just mix up know/no inside of an acronym? It’s one letter for both in an acronym
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I still use two SL1210 turntables from Technics. They are from 1991 and still doing a great Job. My father-in-law bought them for his Nightclub he owned back in the days.
Extremely jealous - I’d love a pair of 1210s!
Would love to use a MP3 player with wired earphones but the kinda decent ones are like $200 — which may not be much for some but it is for me and my third-world salary.
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My modded new 3DS LL
I will never get rid of my modded N3DSXL (with clit-joystick replaced with a PSP joystick!), my modded PSP, or my modded Vita.
I should play New Leaf. I’ve never played it before and I hear it’s the best one.
My girlfriend is just getting into videogames, she started playing New Leaf recently and always send me videos of the stuff she unlocks, I only played the DS one, but gotta say, New Leaf sure looks fun.
Awesome, I’ll for sure check it out! Just have to remember how to download games to my and my partner’s DSes hahaha
I’ve played the GameCube one and the Switch one, but everyone I’ve talked to said the Switch one is a downgrade from New Leaf!
I have this old PC I made back in 2014. It’s an AMD build can’t remember the processor, I use it as a multimedia pc hooked up to myain tv in the living room for watching movies shows and streaming, so the specs are low.
I recently updated to a AMD 5500 because the hardware was loosing support so it was time a for a whole new platform. I used the old case and video card from the 2014 build.
When I put the old video card into the new 5500 build I had a really hard time getting drivers for it for Linux Mint and I couldn’t figure out why.
It took me a while but that card I swapped over was a freaking Nvidia 8400 from like 2007. That card worked for 18 mfing years!
Then it dawned on me. When I build that computer in 2014 I put that 8400 in there as a place holder until I would have gotten a more up to date card… I just forgot and it’s been working diligently since then… I mean wow.
