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?
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.
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.
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. 😁
Dumb tv.
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.
Analog wrist watches. Seiko is my preferred brand and I have a few of them but my favorite is a Timex Indiglo from somewhere around 1989.
It was my grandpa’s. It was the only watch he owned and probably cost $20 at the Walmart jewelry counter. The glowing dial still works 36 years later.
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.
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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Old Casio watch. Works well on the same battery.
I have an old iPod I use when I go for walks or work.
I left my Casio poolside in autumn and found it in spring. It was fine and on time. I’m still using it.
I still use CRTs on occasion.
1981 Yamaha turntable and receiver pair. Dad bought them new for my grandparents and I inherited the set when they passed. Fabulous sound and function!
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, it doesn’t have any labels about how many amps it can pump out, but as long as I’m in an apartment, it doesn’t get turned up past halfway.
I like that it has multiple inputs, bass/mid/treble knobs, and that the thing just works.
Edited to remove a guess at how many amps it has
Edit, I looked up the model number and found a page of specs
https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/onkyo/tx-910.shtml
45 watts per channel would be advertised as 180 watts combined, wouldn’t it?
My modded new 3DS LL
Does my PC with GTX 1660 count lol? No fancy ray tracing, no DLSS, no 4k, simple 1080p 60 fps gaming.
