What's the oldest piece of technology you still actively use?
>>1093416382003 Ford Ranger
>>109341657Cars aren't technology
>>109341638your mother's snatch
>>109341638The oldest gadget I use is probably a Nintendo DS lite.
>>109341638These cameras were comfy and the battery life was incredible, I had the slightly newer ixus 860, the battery could last over 1200 shots + some videos.If it's only about computers, I use an E-MU sound card from 2004, last time I upgraded my computer I had to buy a cheap PCIe-to-PCI adapter to keep using it because my new motherboard doesn't have PCI. Next, my graphic tablet, a wacom intuos 3, is from 2005, it's just unkillable. My scanner is from 2005 too.My 1998 MiniDisc deck is still connected to my sound card via spdif but I actually haven't used it in years so it doesn't count.If synths count, my 1980 Korg MonoPoly beat them all, it's even older than myself.
pen and paper
Probably this turntable from the mid 60s or my Quad ESL 57s that are from 1970I've also got many older records that I listen to regularly from the 50s including Decca and HMV true stereo recordings
violence
>>109341638Plenty of software from around 99-05, and a couple of 1980s speakers. I do have a 1982 CD player but I rarely play CDs on account of being too used to foobar2k. The nice thing is that it has a transport that can read even the most damaged discs up to and including broken ones - no modern optical drive gets anywhere remotely close.
my wilkinson nailclipper which is at least 35 years old
Casio F-91W I've had on my wrist since 2010ish
1957 Finnish tube amp radio.
>>109341638Probably my Microsoft Natural keyboard, I believe it was manufactured in '98, I still have the box around somewhere but I can't be bothered to check. My speakers are compatible with Windows 95. I also have an old Finepix A825 which I use on occasion, also it does have quite a few hot pixels and a temperamental motor. I took pic related on it.
>>109342405I appreciate the plywood stand
>>109342425Thanks, its handcrafted by yours truly.. Here's a picture of a deer with the same camera
>>109341667Not one that old. Newer cars? They're 90% spy technology.
As in, actively use regularly?>Kindle Paperwhite 3 (2015)Jailbroken and offline, only updated (by mistake) a couple of times in the first two years I had it. Ereader technology has hardly progressed since, and if the battery has degraded to any meaningful extent (homebrew tools say it hasn't, but the reading does not seem to reliable) I cannot notice at all.>Nikon D3300 (2014)Bit cheating here since I bought it second hand only last year. Same as above, sensor technology has improved little since, and I prefer a DSLR over a mirrorless (especially due to the battery life, which lasts long enough for a week-long holiday). I paid €170 for it, including the kit lens, and it's the best purchase I have made lately.>Nintendo Switch (2017)I have a launch model that I bought second hand in 2019, when patched model (that blocked the softmod exploit) started appearing. All I play nowadays are indie games, so it's probably the last console I will ever need.>iPad mini 2 (2013)Bought second hand 4 years ago. Almost everything about it is utter trash, but the screen looks great, and the aspect ratio is great for reading. I use it for anything that does not display well on the Kindle, namely PDFs and Mangas.>Garmin Forerunner 10 (2012)Still works great. Too bad the band does not use a standard connector, so replacing it would cost me more than the watch is worth :/
>>109342405>Smoker>Such bright white clean keyboard What kind of sorcery is this? Also, quit smoking, faggot.
two '79 cardioid microphones
>>109341638my phone, the oneplus one from 2014, still going strong
>>1093416382010 macbook, I'm typing from it right now.I was using an old 64mb portable mp3 player from 2004 regularly until recently when naturally ended up using my smartphone and bluetooth headphones more.My desktop computer's case is from 2007, I bought it after watching a 3dgameman Rodney Reynolds video review of it back then and I've been using it ever since. Of course, the parts inside it have all been replaced since then, inside the case I have a modern ryzen cpu and motherboard, AMD gpu, and 32gig memory.oh, well, the DVD drive is still the same one I bought back at the end of 2007 when I bought the case. it struggles to open the tray but otherwise still works, I just have to run this script for 10 minutes for the one time a year that I need to use the drive
>>109341638I have a pile of these in multiple different colors. I hate how hall effect feels and hate wireless controllers so these do the job
>>109342880>nubs on sticks still visibledamn, barely even broken in
>>109341638your mom
My alarm clock (1976) and my turntable (1986). I posted another one of my clocks in the last thread, though the pictured RC-6025 is interesting because it's the exact model that appeared in Groundhog Day.
>>109341638I sharpened a small pointy stick out of some wood that I use to unclog my weed pipe
>>109341638A stick! I use a stick in the garden to stabilize my roses.
2006 ThinkPad X60sThis is my main coding machine. Doesn't even have X11 or Wayland only tty + tmux but it just werx
>>109341638my car. no, I won't tell you what it is.
>>109341638Based Linux Mint chad
MX 500 mouse from 2002
>>109343151THIS is what a laptop screen should look like, instead of these retarded widescreens that were imposed on us.
>>109343371Agreed. 4:3 is king.
>>109341638
>>109341638Concept 4.5D receiver
>>109341667define technology
Pioneer CT-W910R double cassette tape deck from 1989
1970 bmw 2002
>>109343456something that does beep beep boop boop with pixels moving around
>>109343456something that's supposed to offload work and make life easier but does the opposite in practice.
>>109342094
>>109343592Noice! Sold all my cassette's in a garage sale back in the day, I still regret it.
>>109341638it's about 20+ years old
the oldest piece of technology I use is this bad boy straight from 1971
Have this old samsung portable tv
It just works. I paid so much money for it, and I'm not willing to admit that Kepler was probably the worst single generation you could buy.
>>109343789>now>now>today>yesterdayascended coding anon
>>1093416382012 kindle touch.
>>109341638Actively, a core2quad based machine. Often, a Manning & Bowman Model No. 31 desk fan.Have, a Sony reel to reel "portable" recorder. Or maybe a full size single shot kodak camera from the 50's.
>>109341638An '80s era landline phone.
>>109343725I recommend cassette tapes. They are pretty cheap compared to vinyl, take less space, don't catch dust easily, gain certain character with time and the deck i have play both sides, skipping the silence before and after tracks if needed.I can also record whatever I want on tapes, like miles davis' dark magus (no tape version was officially released)
>>109343371>low refresh rate>CFL backlit
>but it has to be electronic to be technologyGo to hell
>>109344708is any concept technology?
>>109344723Technology has to be invented. Natural fire exists, natural wheels do not.
>>109341638these fuckers, got them in very early 2000s
>>109341638Probably the electrical outlets, toilets and so forth that we're installed when the building I'm in was built in the 1970s.
>>109341638Women.
dogs
>>109344006Only terrible if you didn't get a titan or k6000 when they "became" ewaste. Bought those after the fact, for a legacy machine, and continue using the latter for mental ray. I'd like to buy an M6000, but probably don't need it. I still need to test rendering in a vm (no pass-through) vs native cpu with gpu, I've been told the difference is minimal because modern cpus alone are exponentially better than older cpu+gpu ones for proprietary renderers.
NEO2. I got this bad boy fifteen years ago. A couple of double-a batteries lasts several months, and it's great for distraction-free writing.
>>109345121what the fuck do you use this shit for that you cant use a laptop for?
>>109341638Is a safety razor technology? I have a Gillette adjustable that's from the 1960s. If not, probably my Game Boy Pocket or N64 for absolute oldest, and a Samsung SyncMaster 193P for "regularly use"
Thinkpad t430s as a daily driver1995 Acura IntegraNikon point and shoot from the early 2010sI also have a plethora of older radios for DXing
>>109341638the wheel
Early/mid 90s microwave oven. Bought in around 1992-95.
>>109341638If mechanical tech counts, my set of NSK micrometers. I couldn't find a date on anything that came with them but the packaging and paperwork look mid-'60s to me and similar ones I found on eBay were labeled as '60s as well. Shown here in a laser-cut toolbox insert I made for them a few months ago since they came in a big wood presentation case that was impractical to carry around.On a related note, I often use those mics when machining on a 1944 Bridgeport.If we're talking about electronic/digital tech, I guess it's my Fuji X-Pro 2, which is about 10 years old. >>109344006I had a base 780 myself, but I got super lucky and managed to grab an MSRP 1080 a few months into the GPU apocalypse and that carried me through like 6 or 7 years before I finally got an AMD 6800. That 1080 is actually still in use too, I gave it to my dad to replace his 1060 and then swapped it to my mom's PC after my dad got a whole new rig.
>>109343656women are not technology, bozo
>>109343642So devices with no screens are not technology? That cctv camera isn't tech?
>>109345421the fuck do those do
>>109345619tell you exactly how long your penis is
>>109341786this
>>109345176>what the fuck do you use this shit for that you cant use a laptop for?Since one sentence was too difficult for you, I will split it in two:1. Distraction-free writing2. Insanely long battery life
>>109341638/thread
>>109345121>le distraction-free memeHave I got a technology for you!Infinite battery life, too!
>>109341638I have a couple of tube radios from the 50s that I use to listen to AM and FM stations a few nights a week while reading. Next up is a record player from the late '80s, then my original gameboy that I got in '91. Usually playing harvest moon, zelda, tetris, or pokemon.
>>109346420this is work though
LanguageI win
>>109341638mom's mixer from the 70s. still use it regularly
>>109341638It's a tossup between gravel roads and dirt pathways. Maybe doorways or ceilings, idk.
>>109341638my car is almost 60 years old
>>109341638my grandpa's watch, i haven't been able to find a specific year, but it's from somewhere between 1946-1960
>>109345176They were originally developed when laptops cost a lot, weighed a ton, and lasted an hour on battery. A journalist could compose their notes if not story in the field without risking an expensive machine. Then on returning to the office, plug it into the desktop computer's keyboard port, where it would send all the keystrokes to transfer the text.These days, since it's got no frills, can't run anything else, and lasts forever on AA batteries, they've gotten popular with the writing crowd as a no-distraction device.
>>109341638Your moms backpussy
>>109343730Making me miss my old 90's alarm. Had to retire it cause it was missing half the buttons
>>109350121you know you can buy new ones like that style easily right? Hell even ebay has a lot of them
>>109341638my violin, it's about 100 years old.
>>109341638You have a purity seal on your camera, as is proper. The Emperor protects.
>>109341638An iAudio M5.
>>109344909Still running my 25 year old Monsoon electrostatic speakers, though they're finally wearing out (buzzing)Otherwise I still use one of these out of pure habit
>>109345619They measure things very precisely. 18th century tech and still the most accurate measuring instruments you can feasibly carry around.
>>109343371>>109343383Well, technically a 13’’ iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard is pretty much a modern 4:3 laptop.iPadOS limitations are a bit of a letdown though…
>>109341638I have a Remington 870 that I shoot pretty often
>>109345951sir, this technology is forbidden, sir
Kindle Keyboard / 3 from 2010.
I have a 4 TB WD Red from 2017 that's actively spinning right now. Apart from that, don't really know. A year ago it would've been my microwave, but it exploded over the Christmas and had to be replaced. There are older things in here, but I don't think nothing older would fit the "actively use" category.
2007 Sony amp. I've never seen a reason to replace it.
>>109354186That thing looks fuckin sexy, and it's HDMI so really no need to replace it, it's an amp, it sends sound to speakers, you really don't need anything more if it's pushin em
>>109344006Mine is older than most 4chin posters
Some very sketchy high voltage power supply from the 1940s that looks like a grad student made it. The transformer in it weighs a ton since it uses mains directly instead of switching at a higher frequency, and it still trips the breaker from saturating the core if it's turned on during the wrong part of the AC cycle.
I have an italian espresso maker from the 60s or 70s thats made to be used in a car (running on 12V)
the car
>>109354476wow i remember i had a 770 back in the day. salute
Casio alarm clock, analogCasio LF20-W, while not being an old watch this digital watch tech is oldAutomatic watch - does it count?Turntable and a few records
>>109341638early 80's dyna comp. doesn't seem like it's the slightly older, more sought after original model going by the internals but it does the job.also a have kitchen aid mixer that is at least that old. probably older. the plainest single kitchen aid across the front branding, aluminum beater, ancient, falling apart cord with a small plug end , only marking is the under bowl pre-86 brand/model and an ink stamped 1 65. needs to be rebuilt. it would have been long before i was born but i doubt it would have survived 30 years of my grandmother making stuff for church without having been repaired multiple times. it's a simple thing but the evolution of the construction of these things over the years is interesting.
This is my oldest tech that I use. It works just fine. Its pretty too.
>>109354441It's nice and does what I need. I'd upgrade if I watched movies for eARC but I don't so a new one would be wasted on me.
>>1093416384chan is 21 years old
>>109341638What do you use it for? Post pics
An old flash drive from 2007 lol
>>109358147I have a singer one from the 1910's that still works wonders, the version with the table and pedal.Pic related, it's the same model but the painting is a bit different.
>>109341638muh dih
>>109341667Retard or b8?
>>109344006I still use my trusty radeon hd7770. There's really no reason to "upgrade" on linux now that amdgpu works for it.
>>109343730I use a dream machine too, mine is a CD player. Great line, though I wish you could completely black out the display.
>>109357093god damn that person on the right is irish levels of pale
>>109353377How do you do anything with it? I've got one around somewhere but my recollection was that it was ONLY usable through cellular that was no longer supported.
>>109341638Wipe your screen.
>>109341667Cars are technology if they get OTA updates
>>109341638My Sony MDR-110 headphones.
>>109341638fire
Email
>>109362113My car doesn't get OTA updates but it is constantly connected to the Internet.
>>109341638A DS Phat. I use it to play MKDS.
>>109342880the fuck do you have against hall effect
the Beretta 84BB .380 I EDC to protect myself from diverse individuals.
>>109362039not him but you can connect it through USB to transfer files and it supports a bunch of different file types including PDF
>>109342880I was using one of these up until a year ago where i upgraded to a cheap 8bitdo controller and it was a huge upgrade.
>>109342405I have two somehow perfectly good computer speakers from that era. I modded one to be bluetooth speakers and the other is backup when those fail. Never had to use them.
>>109343022Too hipster-y for me but def cool.
>>109345421>running full IT service for both parentsvery based son
>>109342880>Original stick coveringPleb
Abacus.I'm not even joking. It originally was a novelty gift from a workmate (I work in logistics), but I now use it at work for some intense multitasking and tracking of current purchase orders (a labelled bead on the left means it's not done, if it's on the right then it is complete). You'll be surprised at how effective the simplest solutions are. Remember, if it's a stupid idea and it works, it's not stupid.
I use a Nokia and an mp3 player from the 2010s (?) I think, I'm not sure
>>1093416381988
>>109360860cool :) The sister of a friend of mine has one too. They are still easy to find. There are so many of them.>>109365177I have one too but its brand new so I didn't count it as old tech. Even though the concept is old. I use it for adding up my expenses. Ones getting used to it, they can get very convenient and fast. It feels more natural and intuitive.
>>1093416382008 sony bravia TV
>>109366450sick
