What old tech cant you bear to throw out ?

[Shaoxter]

Minidisc player along with 50+ MDs, got a top of the range one back in the day. No idea if it still works but can't throw it away as there's too much nostalgia attached to it formed during my teenage years.

Also have loads of old games consoles: PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, Game Boys etc. Sold my SNES somewhere along the line which I regret now

[mikeiow]

Would old tech include old s/w? Quicken 2000 - still manage our accounts (& use for small holiday let business accounts each year).
When my old Win7 vm (run all-Mac here these days!) dies, I may be in trouble!!

[Hoofy]

I'll let my family put together a list on this thread after I've died and they're dealing with the estate.

[LuS1fer]

I don't use it but still have a 35mm camera upstairs and a digital cassette video camera.
I have a DVD recorder and a VCR player and still have some video cassettes.
I have a cassette player and a drawer full of cassettes.
My phone is still a Nokia 520 Windows phone.

[Craikeybaby]

Riley Blue said:

I have two Dell Axim PDAs gathering dust - somewhere...

I've still got mine. The only way I could get it to connect to the internet was via my iPhone, which I thought was ironic.

[technodup]

The laptop I'm writing this on. Must be eight years old, Vista OS, can't unplug it or it dies, overheats quite a bit, the power button doesn't work and I've got a USB keyboard over the space where the original one was. I've got a desktop too so nothing is saved on the laptop but despite me expecting it to die any minute it soldiers on.

Choose Asus.

[anonymous-user]

technodup said:

The laptop I'm writing this on. Must be eight years old, Vista OS, can't unplug it or it dies, overheats quite a bit, the power button doesn't work and I've got a USB keyboard over the space where the original one was. I've got a desktop too so nothing is saved on the laptop but despite me expecting it to die any minute it soldiers on.

Choose Asus.

8 years running Vista, no wonder it overheats - it's the most inefficient, cobbled together OS Microsoft ever came up with. I bet your Asus wishes it died a long time ago also!

[Rawwr]

wormus said:

8 years running Vista, no wonder it overheats - it's the most inefficient, cobbled together OS Microsoft ever came up with.

It really, really isn't.

[montecristo]

Shaoxter said:

Minidisc player

+1

Also this

[ging84]

cables

[technodup]

wormus said:

8 years running Vista, no wonder it overheats - it's the most inefficient, cobbled together OS Microsoft ever came up with. I bet your Asus wishes it died a long time ago also!

It's long been trendy to knock it, and obviously it's now unsupported but as an 'amateur' user I've never found any problem with it whatsoever.

The overheating issue is very recent, and I seem to have mostly resolved it. Go Vista.

[iwantagta]

ging84 said:

cables

Throwing out a cable is very stressful/not possible.

I have an Amstrad CPC in my parents loft still (colour monitor version). They have been banned from binning in like they did my Transformers! Optimus Prime, gone. Yet they kept some Action Force models.

I've got an N64 & Megadrive but both of those are wired up to my current telly so don't count as "old tech"!

[KaraK]

I binned loads when I moved a few years back, including multiple PCs, monitors (including a cracking Iiyama 21" CRT that weighed more than a house) and components, an Amiga A600 with PCMCIA hard drive, and lots of other random crap.

I still have things I would consider heresy to bin - a Sony VAIO Picturebook subnotebook that was my 21st present, and an original Gameboy are the ones you'll have to pry from my cold dead hands!

[catso]

Sony Walkman 7;



Was the dog's danglies when I bought it, touch controls and could leave it in your coat pocket and stop/start/reverse from the headset control, sounded good too.

I rediscovered it recently whilst clearing some stuff out, don't know if it still works but couldn't bring myself to throw it, even though I've not got any cassettes to play on it...

[vsonix]

My old bilingual (English/Arabic) MSX computer from from about 1986. My collection of Commodore Amigas (A500, A2000 with XT/AT board, A1200). And my Technics 1210 turntables. Most other stuff I don't care too much about really.

[boxst]

I have one of these in the loft:



No idea why I keep it and it should just go to the tip.

[Disco Infiltrator]

Hardly "tech", but I have of these in the loft.

Ancient Murphy Valve Radio that used to belong to my grandad,

[Zoobeef]

My Dell Inspiron laptop, with XP. I bought it December 2006, it still works so why should I change....

[Murph7355]

ging84 said:

cables

This. I have two drawers full of the buggers. I wish there was an easy/viable facility for giving them to people in need as I'm convinced some will be handy.

I also have an early Apple ABS (dome one), a wireless print server (!), external DVD writer and all sorts of other stuff.

If anyone does want things like this, drop me a line!

[Du1point8]

BalhamBadger said:

J4CKO said:

You know the situation, its essentially useless but still works and you paid hundreds or even thousands for it, my example, one of these bad boys,



Bought the cheapest one I could find and turns out it worked but was a refurb and I hadnt noticed, was a bit shonky, crap touch screen but it still works.

Other examples,

Collection of Xbox 360s and PS3's. Got the new ones so will prob never return to them
Hard Disks, box full of them from PC that have been scrapped
A draw of mobile phones, would throw but you never know if there is a photo on them or something
Handheld DVD player
A PSP
Various Nintendo DS's and Gambeboys
My old Mitsubishi VCR. paid over £400 (monthly !) back in the late eighties and it was my prized possesion, still works though it didnt account for the Y2K.

What is it?

Its an old Archos 5 tablet, feels like its made out of more solid stuff than todays tablets...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Archos-5-60GB-Internet-M...

Not sure why they are 5 times the price I paid for mine brand new