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
2004 F150 and 2002 Spyder here. I’ll roll those until I can’t.
My wired headphones.
I hate the wires dangling around my ears and neck. So annoying lol
I hate constantly needing to charge headphones and dealing with bluetooth connection issues. Way more annoying lol
This, and the fact that no matter how good the headphones/earbuds are, their batteries will, inevitably, die after some time. Even if the drivers and mics are ok, you will not be able to use them anymore unless you can replace said batteries (which I don’t know if it is possible, particularly with earbuds). And if not, they transform in e-waste that cannot be recycled easily.
On the other end, I still have pairs of wired headphones and earbuds that I bought many years ago (some of them from the late 90s), that still sound as good as the first day.
That’s why I use both, interchangeably! Worst of both worlds!
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So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.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!).
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.
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
Doorknobs.
Yuck.
Wheels.
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’.
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!
Rackmount Pioneer timer system from the 70s, rocks. 1981 Sony EQ integrated, rocks. 80s Pioneer single tape deck, not installed. Yet.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Do you still have that A3000T? There are people that can repair that…
Yes I still have it. Repair of the motherboard was attempted but failed. Then I sent pics to the premier repair guy overseas. He said it was too damaged to repair, unfortunately.
I’ll probably part it out at some point but I haven’t had the will to fully dismantle it yet.
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. 😁
I still use magnetic tape media. VHS, Cassette, Video8, miniDV. the camcorders and players are not being made new any more that’s for sure.
pretty much any physical media, such as DVDs and CDs could be considered outdated now too, love my Minidiscs.
I’ve made a point of keeping and finding real Televisions with Analogue/Digital tuner combos. having buttons work immediately when you press them wasn’t something I ever thought would be engineered out.
Still play my Gamecube and still have basically every console from before it going back to the 2600.
MiniDisc is probably the best designed format in terms of looks.
The discs still looks futuristic with the holographic effect and bright colors.
The size of the discs also contribute to making them a perfect prop for movies and TV shows, they are easily handled and can be integrated anywhere.
Same with a lot of the players and portable recorders.
I will never accept that MD was released 32 years ago, they can still represent contemporary society or a cool tech future.
I am sad that I never had an MD player despite growing up when they were released, I only got one or two used back in 2011-2016 to play around with, it was fun but ever since I was one of the first students with an MP3 player (a Creative Nomad MuVo 64mb) at my school back sometime in 2000-2003 I have been into solid state music players and quickly integrated them into my phone.
They were great back in the day too. I used to have to use a ps2 to write to it as it had the weird connection at the back, I forget what it was called.
I remember I had discs of Tupac , Nirvana and Linken Park. There was others but thats all that stands out.
I use to use it when skating and unlike a discman it never skipped. It eventually died when I forgot to take out expired batteries and they leaked all over it.
So reminder take your batteries out when not in use
Count me in for CRTs and old consoles.
I also used a Dualshock 4 specifically for a couple of fighting games until all the dumb micro USBs gave up the ghost. It just worked better than the DS5 for me for some reason just for this specific application.
Controllers are a place where I’m fairly odd and obsessive, in general. I still have fight sticks for the Mega Drive/Genesis and the PsOne. I firmly believe the chunky Sega Saturn controller with the handles is way superior to the bone controller that everybody keeps mimicking, unfortunately. The couple I still have in working order are deeply cherished. I have all sorts of weird, tiny modern controllers, and I still have a PS3 fightpad from the launch of Street Fighter IV. And don’t get me started on my hot takes on leverless controllers.
I’m old, my hands hurt and I’ve gone down some rabbit holes.
As a controller nerd, I think I may be in the market for some of those hot takes
Hah. Welcome, kink sharer, it is weird here.
Mostly my big hot take with leverless stuff is that I much prefer the WASD configuration using keyboard switches (like the Haute/Cosmox boards, which are my current leverless choice).
My brain should be friendly to the thumb-to-jump stuff, since I was a micro and PC gamer in the nineties and I’m no stranger to QAOP/Space platformers, but for some reason I just can’t parse it in all-arcade-switch leverless devices. WASD just works better for me, especially outside of fighting games where jump is mapped to a face button anyway.
These days you can get more of these, and you can also find WASD keys and arcade face buttons (I have one of those from FightBox, which I do like, although be warned that the slim version uses keyboard switches for both sides). I think I’m still way in the minority here.
I guess it’s also a hot take that leverless is my primary choice for all 2D games, not just fighting games. In fact, I’ve been going back to fight sticks for fighting games, but leverless is just so nice for 2D platformers, metroidvanias and retro console games.
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!
