Old tech found in drawers...
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parabolica said:
If you really want to geek out about old tech I'd recommend checking out LGR's (lazy game review's) Oddware Series playlist on his Youtube channel. The guy collects all sorts of old tech and obsolete equipment and does videos about them. Very entertaining, not least because he has the best made-for-radio voice on all of youtube 
I'm with you there.Reminds me a lot of an old boss I had that was about as mid-western as you can get.
The weird thing is that relatively speaking most of this stuff isn't actually that old. Just shows the amazing amount of progress technology has made in the last 3-4 decades.
I do think we seem to have stalled a bit in the last few years though. I just replaced my previous Smartphone which I'd had for 2 and a bit years and it's basically the same thing, just a bit faster and with more storage which was again the same as the smartphone I had before that.
I do think we seem to have stalled a bit in the last few years though. I just replaced my previous Smartphone which I'd had for 2 and a bit years and it's basically the same thing, just a bit faster and with more storage which was again the same as the smartphone I had before that.
Never been out of its box.
Years ago I owned a company that rented out Mondeos on Private Hire, after they had been out on hire for three years and 250,000 miles there was three things wrong with them that needed to be fixed before they were sold on, new drivers seat, cracked bumpers and a radio.
Bought this to go into a car but never needed.
Robbo 27 said:
Never been out of its box.
Years ago I owned a company that rented out Mondeos on Private Hire, after they had been out on hire for three years and 250,000 miles there was three things wrong with them that needed to be fixed before they were sold on, new drivers seat, cracked bumpers and a radio.
Bought this to go into a car but never needed.
Is that even still a thing by the way? The last 3 cars I've had, the stereo has been built into the sat nav unit so pretty difficult to steal.
Guvernator said:
Robbo 27 said:
Never been out of its box.
Years ago I owned a company that rented out Mondeos on Private Hire, after they had been out on hire for three years and 250,000 miles there was three things wrong with them that needed to be fixed before they were sold on, new drivers seat, cracked bumpers and a radio.
Bought this to go into a car but never needed.
Is that even still a thing by the way? The last 3 cars I've had, the stereo has been built into the sat nav unit so pretty difficult to steal.
All sat round a pub table with various plastic, foam lined boxes containing a faceplate..
Guvernator said:
Ahh removable facia car stereos, I remember those.
Is that even still a thing by the way? The last 3 cars I've had, the stereo has been built into the sat nav unit so pretty difficult to steal.
My current car (2002 Alfa 147) came with one of those monstrosities (more modern though, CD+USB for MP3) rather then the original Alfa dashboard appropriate unit. Stopped by the local Alfa indy and had him put in an original unit. fIs that even still a thing by the way? The last 3 cars I've had, the stereo has been built into the sat nav unit so pretty difficult to steal.
k MP3 playback, i want my dash to not look like i robbed a halfords.Guvernator said:
Or worse still sitting in the pub and having some scrote come in and offer to sell you a car stereo for £50, hopefully not yours
The business I had was in West Lancashire and I knew of pubs that would take car stereos in return for beer.Did they get much sympathy when they were turned over that same night because the thieves wanted the stereos back?
Not bleeding much they didnt.
thatsprettyshady said:
RichardM5 said:
A hi-tech trio from late 90's to early 00's all freshly plucked from my desk draw!
If that iPod is first gen it's worth 2k+, even the old nano's are £4-500. 1st gen ipod
3d gen ipod
4th gen non photo ipod
4th gen photo ipod
5th gen video
6th gen video
3rd gen shuffle (the tiny paperclip sized one)
2 x ipod mini, both given to me, I converted one to a CF card for my wife, she then ignored it...
6th gen nano
7th gen nano
ibook G3 dual USB (used it as a travel PC, before the ipad came about)
ibook G4
clamshell ibook(blue)
clamshell ibook(key lime) shame someone wrote on it with indelible marker!
Nintendo gamboy 1st gen, it still works just fine.
I did have a Nokia 8800, the chrome slider, I gave it to my dad, who no longer uses it (should ask if I can have it back)
I may have a small 'old tech' issue, but then my car is 57 years old....
KAgantua said:
Don't know what this is.
But it looks really nice and current!!!
It's a Sony LISSA, released in 2001, flopped. I picked it up relatively cheap off someone who was selling it circa 2002-2003. It's a nice looking thing but made completely redundant by the advent of digital media.But it looks really nice and current!!!
It has no analog connections, it uses firewire to connect everything together (except the speakers). Supposedly able to control it via PC / Mac but I could never find the software to download.
Oakey said:
It's a Sony LISSA, released in 2001, flopped. I picked it up relatively cheap off someone who was selling it circa 2002-2003. It's a nice looking thing but made completely redundant by the advent of digital media.
It has no analog connections, it uses firewire to connect everything together (except the speakers). Supposedly able to control it via PC / Mac but I could never find the software to download.
Ah good old firewire... The almost but not quite there peripheral interface of the early 2000s, technically superior to USB 2.0, but killed by cost, proprietariness and lack of an existing base of devices It has no analog connections, it uses firewire to connect everything together (except the speakers). Supposedly able to control it via PC / Mac but I could never find the software to download.
parabolica said:
If you really want to geek out about old tech I'd recommend checking out LGR's (lazy game review's) Oddware Series playlist on his Youtube channel. The guy collects all sorts of old tech and obsolete equipment and does videos about them. Very entertaining, not least because he has the best made-for-radio voice on all of youtube
Techmoan is also good for old tech particularly old video and music formats. The way he talks though I bet he's a PH'er !Otispunkmeyer said:
Techmoan is also good for old tech particularly old video and music formats. The way he talks though I bet he's a PH'er !
I really enjoy Techmoans videos. I thought he only did dashcams until recently but I've watched all the old tech stuff he's put up, loads of things I'd never heard of.Guvernator said:
Ahh removable facia car stereos, I remember those.
Is that even still a thing by the way? The last 3 cars I've had, the stereo has been built into the sat nav unit so pretty difficult to steal.
Very much so - bought a newly relased Pioneer DAB+ Radio which had a removable fascia!Is that even still a thing by the way? The last 3 cars I've had, the stereo has been built into the sat nav unit so pretty difficult to steal.
devnull said:
Very much so - bought a newly relased Pioneer DAB+ Radio which had a removable fascia!
I still use a pioneer one with FM/AM Radio, Aux and CD with MP3/WMA. I can't remember the last time I put a load of MP3s onto a CD so I could play it in a car, but I must have some somewhere. The AUX gets used on long journeys but usually it is just the radio. I find putting the fascia on automatic, which is funny when someone else tries it and just ends up smacking the fascia into the radio until it sticks or they give up and hand it over for me to do it.Guvernator said:
Steamer said:
All sat round a pub table with various plastic, foam lined boxes containing a faceplate..
Mine had a handle, can't see one on this pic
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