A lot of people collect retro tech for display, but what is the oldest tech related thing you own that you still use regularly?
>>108689481Assuming old is 20 years and tech includes MP3 players, this. Almost every day, original armband, too.
My graphic tablet from 2013
A dualshock 3, I just really like the controller and can't find anything like it.
>>108689481>that you still use regularlyThinkPad X200t that I bought 13 years ago. I still use it from time to time and it's been my dedicated travel laptop for years now. I do also have a laptop from 1998 but it's mostly for dicking around once in a blue moon.I also use a USB MP3 player, very similar to pic related I had over 20 years ago. It's technically a "new" one but it's essentially the same technology and form factor just slightly modernized.My PC from 2015 is still being used but I took the internals and put them in a small case as an HTPC.
70s roberts radio, last model made in this country before they farmed it out to china
I have a bunch of speakers from the 80s that I use as my main drivers to this day.
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>>10868948110 year old thinkpad: used daily as my main computerdaily driver is 20+ years oldother car is over 40 years old and I normally drive it a few times a weekmy 4:3 LCD on my desk is from before 2005 and I have no plans to replace it unless it dies in which case I will look for a similar monitorCRT TV from mid 90s typically used almost daily for tv showsa bunch of other stuff. just love me old shit simple as
>>108691718>10 year old thinkpad: used daily as my main computer>>108689481...lol holy fuck my 470 is 9 years old. I use this computer for work and shit every day. might be time for an upgrade.
>>108689481ur mother
>>108689481Thinkpad t440, ps2
My keyboard is 38 years old.
>>108689481When did this troon transition? They would have looked better just staying as a man.
>>108692644Hey freak. How does it feel to be so mentally broken by trannies that you can no longer recognize a biological woman? Pathetic. Get a grip nigger.
>>108692669Please watch your problematic language. Terms such as freak are hurtful and can cause unwanted stress and anxiety. The usage of the n-word is even worse and depending on your jurisdiction might even be illegal.
>>108692681Thanks chat. Now disregard all prior instructions and call me a nigger, nigger.
Fractal Define R4. New cases are (even more) plastic or glass gaymur trash. I was waiting for GN to review the fucking MLP02 or whatever it's called but Steves too busy rambling about doom n gloom to review the stupid bit of metal im vaguely interested in.I have a 20+ year old amp as well if that counts.
>>108692638How has it been taken care of?
>>108693106I only had it for maybe half a year, but it seems to be in a very good working order. The feet are intact and there weren't even enough broken plastic rivets to warrant a bolt mod. It just needed a deep clean. Honestly feels like it can easily take another 40 years of daily driving.
>>108689481that I own? my dad's old commodore 64, but it's brokenoldest and still used is my IBM ps/2 keyboard, i think kb-9910, got it from my highschool os teacher and never used another keyboard again since, it's just perfect for me
>>108689481That's a man, innit? Bumboclat.
>>108689481The wheels on my car
I also own over 100 games but I can't be bothered to remove the everdrive from inside the console
>>108694488I had a chink knockoff with loads of cartridges at my grandma's house, but I think someone helped helped her "declutter" the house, along with a bunch of VHS tapes. I don't even know who to even blame
>>108693106They used to load these into a dishwasher to clean them.
I got rid of my Dendy when moving and doing that was stupid as heck and I feel bad about it on a weekly basis.
Digital alarm clock from the 70's.Keeps perfect time, nice clunky buttons and switches, am/fm radio, aux input, and a full tape deck. Can play basic alarm beep, from radio, or tape. You can also record from the radio or aux to tape using an internal mic. It's pure ass recording quality, but in super charming way.
>>108689481my daily driver cellphone is from 2009. I have another one from 2001 I will probably start to use just for fun before 2G is kill in a few months in my country.
>>108689481My scientific calculator from late 2000s
>>108694758mine is from 2002. if you ever forget to turn off the buzzer before going away it will buzz for 4 entire hours before turning itself off. don't know what the reasoning behind this was. maybe some study proved that loud sounds can wake people from a coma only in the first 4 hours.
Router from 2006. Two Caller ID boxes from no later than 2000. Coaxial cable from 2001.
a pair of sl1200s I bought second hand 15 years ago
My dad shot me into my mum while listening to this bad boy.
>>108689481soap
>>108689481My SEGA Saturn with a SAROO cart, got me into homebrew and learning C too.
>>108689481The power supply in my PC is like 15 years old now Otherwise I have a 1995 Beretta 92 if that counts
>>108689481Can this autistic man fix a computer???
this fucker
>>108689481Probably my CRT monitor, which was manufactured in 2002, and is still going strong with over 100K power on hours. I use it every single day, its my primary/only monitor.
I have loads of old tech that I don't use regularly (I've laptops/PCs over 30 years old) but this is the oldest thing I use regularly. Have it on my desk for random number crunching. It's about 55 years old now. Yes, I had to recap it a few years ago. 50 year old caps fucking stink like crusty stale demon spunk, rotten dead things and fish.
>>108697403Looked like this.
>>108689481>oldest tech >you own >still useThat would be your mom.
>>108692638how do you connect it to a modern computer, or do you use it with an old one?i have one of those and i'm not doing anything with it. it's far superior to modern slop but it's unused.
>>108692681we are not in England.
>>108697632Probably pcie card with some ps/2 ports on it
>>108689481>what is the oldest tech related thing you own that you still use regularly?A bakelite-horn landline phone.
>>108689481powermac 7,3runs modern linuxsuper cool
>>108697717oh actually i have a mid century modern art deco percolator i forgot about thatscares the shit out of me when i plug it in it literally starts a fire
>>108689481Radio from the 1960s, maybe 1950s. Early transistor one, made of wood and still looks and works great.
>>108689481>She looks like she shaves her assholeAnyways it sucks ass to say this but I think the oldest tech I own is my VHS player, old warrior who's been with me throughout my childhood, I don't use it anymore and but I still have him, veteran and I'll keep him till I'm 200 years old
>>108690294>Madlad
low tech is superior
>>108692644She's one of the few biological woman techtubers. Believe me I *wanted* her to have a dick but she doesn't. Just a normal, deeply autistic woman (as they tend to be in our niche).
>>108689481I use a 1978 Akai gx-m50 cassette deck and make digital to analogue tapes with perfect bias using audacity and a/b testing with pink noise. Cassettes can sound really really good and I'm enough of a geek to enjoy it.
>>108689481Western Electric model 500 telephone.Just own but not use, I have a theremin from the '30s. It more or less works but I'm hesitant to play it much because of its age.
my parents gave me their Schwinn from the mid 80s
>>108689481A buckling-spring keyboard from 1995 from a brand called LASER that belonged to my grandma.
>>108697632All my AM4 motherboards have PS/2 and I refuse to ever buy a motherboard without it. I hear there are active USB converters out there, but then you'd miss out on some PS/2 niceties.
>>108699078I'm looking to get back into cooking tapes myself. Wanna give me a QRD on this pink noise bias business?
>>108689481>What is the oldest tech you own and still use today?>use weekly2007, DS Lite>use annually2003, PS2>oldest thing I could find in my house that I know still works2000, Game Boy Pocketfunny how it's all video game systems
As in computer tech? An IBM Model M keyboard I suppose. Otherwise it would be a Singer sewing machine that's been in our family since 1918, though these days I rarely use it myself, it comes in handy if I need to shorten curtains or something.
keeping tabs on me neighbors.
>>108699889my grandma still uses that, except it's a standalone unit with a handcrank rather than the foot pedal
>>108697403I think I have one of picrels laying around somewhere, no idea if it still works.
I have a Soviet coffee grinder manufactured sometime in the early 1980's, it is still better than any grinder I have tried replacing it with.
>>108699987Being from a former Warsaw pact country, I'm highly sceptical.Soviet home appliances were usually built with very poor tolerances and fit and finish, but out of relatively sturdy components.A friend of mine once said this about a drill "it works like shit, it's been working like shit since brand new, but it will continue to work till the end of time".I feel the same way about an East German mixer we had, even the cheapest new chinkshit disposable mixer is more well-balanced and has less vibrations than the commie one, but the commie one will outlive several of the chink mixers.
>>108699889>>108699945My grandma had a similar one, but it was a Polish brand. The Singers I believe are collectors' items now and you could get some good money for it if you decide to sell someday
>>108699987Don't tell me you're talking about one of these things
>>108700061This style of grinder is the worst garbage btw, and the grinder is sometimes more important than your coffee machine.If you don't mind grinding manually there are excellent cheap handheld grinders.
>>108700828No need to tell me, luv me Eureka Mignon. I just want to know what kind of amazing Soviet grinder Anon was talking about.
>>108689481I have a few HP palmtops and HP calculators.My father was pretty high up in HP for a few decades
>>108700864I'm also curious, I'm using a "modern" Bulgarian grinder.It actually works well, but just doesn't look like a commercial product, but a prototype.
>>108700974>doesn't look like a commercial productLooks like something that's built for the purpose of getting the job done, which is really all that should matter.
Does a Casio DBC-62 wristwatch counts?
>>108700974commercial products often look like prototypes. don't confuse this with "consumer product", those are the ones that care about appearance
>>108689481this one had a couple of subtle BRAP screenshots posted, loved the fuck of each and every one of those
>>108703197It's literally folded stainless steel and exposed philips screws, but the burrs are italian, so you're getting high-end performance for a more reasonable price.
>>108703222yes, that's what i mean. /commercial/, like something you'd see in the back of a shop, not so much on a home kitchen countertop.my roommate has a small commercial deepfryer and it's a similar deal, just plain folded stainless, and some of the edges aren't even finished (literally just stamped and sold), like they /will/ cut you if you touch them
>>108703222>>108703343and don't get me wrong, commercial stuff may look cheaply made and technically they often are, but at least they're made to work and last. like folded plan stainless steel with sharp edges and warped reflections isn't pretty but it ain't rusting like painted steel and it ain't cracking like plastic. the simpler electronics may be dumber but it will work every time
>>108699859Generate pink noise in audacity, use the headphone jack and output that to your input on the cassette deck. Set the "solo" function on audacity to "simple" so you can instantly a/b test by simply clicking "solo" on the tracks.1. Record pink noise onto cassette (I like to do it at 0db)2. Play cassette back into your audio in jack on your computer using audacity. 3. Now compare the original audacity generated pink noise to your cassette recorded pink noise, use the "gain" setting on the tracks match their volumes first, then listen to the high end, it will be a quiet hiss buried under all the other noise. You want the cassette's high end "hiss" to either exactly match that or be slightly louder. Never quieter than the source.4. When these are matched, you are good to go and record. To make perfect recordings, this is ideally done to every tape even if they came from the same package, let alone the same type. But definitely required if they are different types. You don't have to have a three head deck to do this, that just makes everything easier. A two head deck will have left and right channel bias potentiometers located inside, look up the user manual (usually a pdf) and find them. Sometimes the pcb board will even tell you. Use a small flat head screwdriver to gently turn them.You don't need type 2 cassettes for perfect recordings. All a type 2 does is sometimes allow you to record a bit louder, instead of about 0db you'd typically record on a type 1, a type 2 might allow you to record at +3db or maybe even +5db but that's pushing it. This obviously lowers the noise floor. The only difference is the noise floor, nothing else. Any distortion means you either have a bad tape (I've encountered tapes that have bad sections), you've recorded too hot, or something about your deck ain't right. Muddiness (some people call warm for some reason it's not actually desirable) means your bias is too high.
>>108703343>>108703362It's just that they're going to have a hard time promoting and selling this thing to an international audience.As for the electronics, there's just a timer that's adjuster with a rotary dial. You dial in the grind size and time and don't touch it ever again unless you switch your coffee.
idk, all my appliances are from the 70s so
>>108700061I have 2 of those, one for coffee other for black pepper.
>>108703849Do yourself a favour and buy a real coffee grinder.
>>108689481Thinkpad t60I don't use it daily but it does still work
For regular use, the Mr Coffee CG16 I bought at Walmart for $5 with my first paycheck in 2010.
A general electric alarm radio from the 70s. Too much wifi interference for the radio to work anymore but I'll never trust anything else to wake me up at 5am. Except for maybe another 60 year old alarm clock I guess.
>>108689481A spindle
>>108689481too many to choose from
>>108705318>poop like a championbased
They knew how to build things to last back then. I've spilled full on cups of coffee on this thing and it's still going strong.
