I'm feeling nostalgic, post some vintage tech you once owned

[Paratus]

Ti-99/4a with the optional cassette tape storage!

-KeithP

Hunt the Wumpus!

 

[Fritzo]

I still use my Zune. As far as I know, no one else has made an HD radio that can fit in a pocket.

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The Zune was SO underrated. Microsoft just got in the game way too late and had no idea how to market to the people buying these things. The Zune even became a joke about parents that buy their kids the wrong thing.

 

[Fritzo]

Hunt the Wumpus!

Hunt the Wumpus!

Tombstone City! Played that for HOURS at my local K-Mart!!!

 

[Fritzo]

iBook G3 Clamshell. First laptop I ever bought back in 1999. Females thought it was cute.

It's weird how any other generation of Apple's laptops look fine, but that colored plastic era looks corny as hell and even worse as it ages...

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Actually have a couple of these and know how to use them. The first one was given to me as a gift without telling me how to use it, but I figured it out. "Neato!" was my response. I then got a second one, more modern but even that one was from the late 1980's.

 

[spaceman]

philips lightframe 17" flat crt
couldnt afford a sony back in y2k
i eventually got a trini monitor after they had gone ghetto and lcd was all that

 

[BarkingGhostar]

I still have a GE IMager 601p CRT projector hanging from the ceiling. Looks like this:

 

[highland145]

Guess my 70 yo King Sealy press and S&R table saw count since I have used them this week.

Built 30 years before I was born.

😀

 

[sdifox]

Zune 8gb

 

[Ken g6]

I have several C64's and associated accessories.

I still have a C16 and a C128 (no bloody A, B, C, or D!) around someplace.

1571 drive for the latter, and some audio cassette drive for the former.

Which reminds me, this is a great YouTube channel for such nostalgia:

The 8-Bit Guy

A computer video series focusing mainly on retro technology from the 80's, 90's and 2000's. However, once or twice a year I'll create something totally "out ...

www.youtube.com

 

[Iron Woode]

I still have a C16 and a C128 (no bloody A, B, C, or D!) around someplace.

1571 drive for the latter, and some audio cassette drive for the former.

Which reminds me, this is a great YouTube channel for such nostalgia:

The 8-Bit Guy

A computer video series focusing mainly on retro technology from the 80's, 90's and 2000's. However, once or twice a year I'll create something totally "out ...

www.youtube.com

I also have a C128D, several 8050 drives and printers. I have the rare 2031LP floppy drive.

 

[VashHT]

I've got a PCI Voodoo 3 in a box somewhere, I'd guess that counts as vintage tech now?

I still use my Zune. As far as I know, no one else has made an HD radio that can fit in a pocket.

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Nice, my brother still uses his Zune HD, I'd still use mine if I hadn't drunkenly dropped it in Chicago. Crazy enough he was looking for a new screen (he dropped it and it broke) and Zune Hd's sell at a premium nowadays because they're still saught after. In my opinion, an example of a better product being beaten by an inferior product (ipod).

 

[purbeast0]

I've posted these before but I just snapped this from my "desk" working from home.

I'm working on getting Time Crisis working in my cab right now.

 

[amdhunter]

I still use my Zune. As far as I know, no one else has made an HD radio that can fit in a pocket.

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Zune supported HD Radio? TIL...

 

[BudAshes]

The Zune was SO underrated. Microsoft just got in the game way too late and had no idea how to market to the people buying these things. The Zune even became a joke about parents that buy their kids the wrong thing.

I had the Creative Vision M from back in the 2000s. That thing was actually pretty awesome. I used the hell out of it until it broke. I felt pretty damn cool watching movies and tv shows while I was supposed to be working. In 2020 that is like half of America working from home.

 

[Muse]

Olympia manual typewriter given me by my older brother and his wife when I entered undergraduate program at the university. Around 8-10 years ago I finally gave it to some institution, I guess a charity. Quite a quality device.

 

[Muse]

HP 4L Laser Jet printer

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I passed on that (it's just 300dpi, IIRC) and bought the HP4 which prints at 600dpi, added a PS card and some memory. The quality of printing of the HP4 and HP4M (same machine with PS added) was far superior to the HP4L, just night and day. I was hoping to get into professional desktop publishing. I never even paid for the printer with the money I made at it. Not easy to get work around here in it. Got into programming instead.

 

[zinfamous]

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my dad's camera.

oh, that reminds me, I still have my XE1 Program, with a prime 200mm and 17mm lens (in addition to the 50mm). (they aren't that great...the 17mm is a Vivitar, I think, and had some wicked vignetting, which is neat in its own way, I guess?).

Though, dad gave me the camera ~2000 or 2001, I think, for travel purposes. I think he picked it up at a pawn shop. The lenses were his for many years, though.

 

[zinfamous]

It kinda shows a problem, though. That 1980's boombox and 1970's transistor radio that I posted pictures of still work. Do you think that iPhone XR will even be usable 15 years from now? The network that it connects to will likely no longer exist, and the non replaceable battery will die long before then.

yep. My ~4 year old Nexus5x completely shit the bed 2 weeks ago now. Totally inoperable (if I had to guess, expanded battery? oh well' can't replace. too bad).

I still have my GE clock radio as my bedside radio, purchased in 1987.

that's the one. still working like a champ, too. mine's quite a bit dirtier, though, and still has remnants of fake snow spray when it get hosed down c. 1989 for my own personal bedroom christmas decorations...

 

[MrSquished]

I still use my Zune. As far as I know, no one else has made an HD radio that can fit in a pocket.

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The zune was great. Synced well. Good interface. It was a design win but couldn't compete with the iPod machine.

 

[stargazr]

I passed on that (it's just 300dpi, IIRC) and bought the HP4 which prints at 600dpi, added a PS card and some memory. The quality of printing of the HP4 and HP4M (same machine with PS added) was far superior to the HP4L, just night and day. I was hoping to get into professional desktop publishing. I never even paid for the printer with the money I made at it. Not easy to get work around here in it. Got into programming instead.

oh ok. Well mine suited my needs, and more to the point, lasted about 15 years.

 

[ultimatebob]

The Zune was SO underrated. Microsoft just got in the game way too late and had no idea how to market to the people buying these things. The Zune even became a joke about parents that buy their kids the wrong thing.

I had a 30 GB 1st gen brown Zune. I was disappointed with it, honestly. The interface was cool, but the sync software had issues and it often screwed up my album art. It also had built-in Wi-Fi, but you couldn't use it to download music from Microsoft. Sure, you could let other Zune owners borrow your music, but none of my friends had a Zune. I'd imagine that most people had the same issue.

If Microsoft had a music store that worked directly from the device, they could have had a jump on Apple and possibly had a winning product.

I still have it now. The battery is shot, though, and the Wi-Fi will not connect. I don't think that it supports WPA2 encryption.

 

[Muse]

yep. My ~4 year old Nexus5x completely shit the bed 2 weeks ago now. Totally inoperable (if I had to guess, expanded battery? oh well' can't replace. too bad).

I still have my GE clock radio as my bedside radio, purchased in 1987.

that's the one. still working like a champ, too. mine's quite a bit dirtier, though, and still has remnants of fake snow spray when it get hosed down c. 1989 for my own personal bedroom christmas decorations...

I had a clock radio, sort of like this with a dial clock. Some years ago I took a hacksaw to it and ripped out the clock, tossed away the radio. I have that clock in my kitchen. When the power goes out it's the one way I have of determining how long the outage was. I used to use it to turn on my stereo because it has a plug in the back and you can set it to power the plug at a specific time. Nowadays I use a programmable digital timer with 20 on, 20 off settings to do that. Cheap and has been completely dependable for a number of years, a GE, IIRC.

 

[snoopy7548]

I had one of these in college. I still have it around somewhere.

 

[Muse]

oh ok. Well mine suited my needs, and more to the point, lasted about 15 years.

My HP4 lasted me over 15 years. One day I was riding my bicycle and spotted what looked like my HP4 on the curb. I stopped and had a look. It was an HP4M, the postscript version of the HP4. I was on the way to visit my mom. On the way back I brought that HP4M. I got it working, cleaned it up and used it instead of my old HP4. I still have that HP4M, but don't use it. I got a mid-range Brother duplexer and is my current printer. Duplexing with those HP4's is a PITA. You either have to buy an expensive and bulky duplexing add-on or feed the pages through a 2nd time to achieve duplexing. I did that a lot. The Brother's so much nicer to use and it was WAY WAY cheaper. Those HP4's ran almost $2000 back in the early 1990's. One day I'll get rid of the HP4M, it's basically just a piece of furniture in my home theater/computer room. I figure to get a multi function printer... copy, print, scan, have that my main printer and relegate the Brother to upstairs work so I don't have to run down the stairs to get my prints.