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?
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So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.
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!).
analog watches, also analog odometers/ dashboard
piano, keyboard
dumb fridge, dumb washing machine, dumb can opener, dumb book, dumb eyeglasses, dumb shoes
i like dumb buttons, sliders, knobs and switches vs touch controls
Doorknobs.
Yuck.
Wheels.
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.
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!
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.
A stereo amplifier taken from a home sound system stack that was… Probably made the 80s? Or else made in the 90s with an already outdated style, IDK.
It’s not name brand, it’s dual stereo instead of surround sound, and it might have 100 amps combined on 4 channels output. Even so, as long as I’m in an apartment, it doesn’t get turn up past halfway.
I like that it has multiple inputs, bass/mid/treble knobs, and the thing just works.
Most of my peripherals honestly, my monitors are all 10-20 years old, my keyboard is a like 30 year old Dell AT101W, I only replaced my old Logitech G35 headphones when they literally fell to pieces
I’m deep into the keyboard rabbit hole, but my oldest (currently working) ones are a 1998 IBM Model M and a weird military keyboard from the mid-90s.
My favorite keyboard is a 1995 ish Leading Edge DC2214 I have, but its switches started going bad so I’m using the dell until I get around to repairing it. It’s so nice though, it has alps white switches and n key rollover unlike the 2 key rollover the dell has in some places. It’s also just such a nice shape and nice color.
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
But don’t worry, I didn’t use language to talk to a cashier, I used the u-scan.
That happened to me just a few weeks ago: a cashier refused to accept money as payment.
Which store?
Which store?
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.
My iPhone mini.
Pebble Time Steel, Surface Pro 3, and Kindle Voyage
Pebble Time Steel
Does any of the smartphone integration still work? Like notifications or viewing txt messages?
Most stuff works as expected. Here’s a guide from 9to5Google
15 years is old? I have PCs running that are older than that.
I still have my Game Boy lying around here. I think last time I played was 2 years ago. That should be the oldest tech I still use. Apart from the cables in the house.
Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books
Same and I got it second hand too, it is really convenient and works great with calibre.
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
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’.
