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?
A car without an internet connection.
Green/orange LCD screens, needle speed dials, just perfection.
My 1980 Honda XR500 is an absolute workhorse of a machine. Almost 47 years old (built 08/1979) and still effortlessly pulls wheelies on command. Very little wiring, and most of it is for the lighting to make it street legal.
An XR not an XL?
Yes, an XR. I wired in a proper lighting system.
I guess my ~10 manual car with no backup cam counts lol
i have a fully functional Kodak Brownie, 100 years old… but it requires ancient 117 roll film.
My 90s bike.
Most of the components have certainly evolved when you look at a modern counterpart.
But it’s still fully repairable, serviceable at home or on the trail, extremely reliable, and doesn’t require any firmware updates or batteries to use 😄
- Cantilever rim brakes.
- Square tapered bottom bracket.
- Cup and cone hub bearings.
- External cables.
- Friction shifters (may latest “upgrade”!)
- Steel frame.
So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.
EDIT: Photo of my metal steed in “winter mode”. LOL
I wanna see pics of this!
just added a photo.
Damn! What a sick all season beast! I love it!
Can you post pics please?
photo added :)
Great bike. Looks like a great place too.
Our waterfront trail (Lake Ontario) really is beautiful, no matter where you stop!).
Tech that still works, I’ll continue to use it till it dies. Then I’ll try to revive it, and if I can’t, then I’ll upgrade. My main PC is over 10 years old.
Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books
Still rocking my kindle keyboard. Great little device, however I would love a backlit screen and usb c port for charging now. I’d actually like it to be a bit more multipurpose for reading and annotating pdfs (I read quite a bit of spec sheets for work) so I am looking at remarkable/boox but only if my company allows me to expense it.
Yeah for comics I have a boox and also love it, definitely worth it if you can get your company to pay
Same and I got it second hand too, it is really convenient and works great with calibre.
I think my Paperwhite is the first one without buttons
I’m still rocking a Zune and a flip phone.
It’s called a Zune. It’s what everybody’s listening to on Earth nowadays. It’s got three hundred songs on it.
I know Spotify isn’t for everyone, but they have a playlist call Star-Lord’s Zune that is pretty fun.
I still use my Zune HD for tunes in the helmet whenever I go skiing. 15 years old and still rockin’.
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Original DS Lite.
I would pay hard money for someone to make essentially a 3DS successor PDA running Linux.
The potential is limitless.
Ayaneo made the Flip DS but besides being expensive apparently the battery life is a bit wanting- but at least these kinds of products are starting to be made!
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
Did you clean it like this guy cleaned a junk Gameboy Color? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BmGMi0IEx4
that was waaay too enjoyable a watch. thanks!
My home server has been running on a i7 960 with an Intel motherboard for many many years now.
My ten year old desktop.
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.
bought it? like with money? pfft what an outdated technology
That happened to me just a few weeks ago: a cashier refused to accept money as payment.
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Which store?
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Which store?
But don’t worry, I didn’t use language to talk to a cashier, I used the u-scan.
My 2005 Peugeot 206. Although it’s always at risk of stalling during heavy rainfall. And my wired headphones that are reliable all the time even though they get stuck in weird places sometimes.
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.
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.
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.
Few years ago I did a full rebuild of a top-of-the-line tube radio from 1958 and use it daily in my living room. My stereo tube amp is from 1963 or 1964. Both sound astonishing.
My binoculars are from WW II - era. I had to realign the prisms when I got them but the optics are about as good as you can get.
I also use an iPod Nano 2Gen almost daily, I think I bought it in 2008 and the original battery can still hold enough charge for 4-5 hours of continous play. Incredible device with a neat perfect UI. The physical jogwheel can be operated through pocket fabric, so I can switch songs or adjust volume while running without even having to remove the iPod from my pocket.
