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?
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!
Too much to list.
Stuff that was created to do something and does just that.
No fuss, no ads, no updates, no sudden change of terms, no phoning home.
Doorknobs.
Yuck.
Wheels.
I am famous for my love of my air fryer. Also, I had my main camera, a polaroid camera, gifted to me by my grandfather (who got it special from the higher-ups of Kodak back when I resided close to Rochester), and I don’t ever see myself giving it up.
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.
A car without an internet connection.
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.
Green/orange LCD screens, needle speed dials, just perfection.
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.
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.
That is nice. White Alps are good switches. I have a Focus FK-5001 with them that I think I’m about to completely hand wire to both convert to USB and to make all the extra keys fully programmable. It’ll mean giving up the built-in calculator though. The other option is to hope that re-insulating all the jumpers will keep it from shorting on the steel plate, then re-installing the PCB.
In the same auction I got a FK-7000P with a trackball where the arrows would go, but that means the arrows are on these awful little flaps with mouse microswitches. It also needed a complete re-cap, so I just harvested the switches for a DIY build sometime down the line.
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!
My two favorite classics Ade my GBA (tho its nodded now) and my Sony WM-EX631 cassette Walkman.
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.
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!
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We still enjoy using the fireplace, even though our home is heated.
Indeed. We have central heat, and technically we’re supposed to install one of those fireplace inserts for efficiency (California). But there’s nothing better than a roaring fire, even if it sucks more heat out of the house than it puts in.
I’m replacing an oil boiler with a masonry stove. There is something about having a fire in a home that makes it so much more comfortable compared to a central heating system.
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
Old ass kindle. Physical buttons, no modem to phone home / update itself / delete my shit, only thing it can do is display books
I think my Paperwhite is the first one without buttons
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 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.
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.
