What old tech cant you bear to throw out ?

[Dgr90]

My gameboy colour, with Pokemon blue. I spent so many hours as a child lost in mt.moon (cave) that I just cant throw it. I let my nephew play with it a few times but was petrified that he would drop it.

[mybrainhurts]

Clockwork cattle prod....

[eps]

Hmm...

Only stuff I've kept hold of are consoles and a ZX Spectrum (48k).

N64, Dreamcast and Jaguar.

All bubble wrapped and silica beads stored...

I have got a Xeon server somewhere - which reminds me, that needs to go now I've got a Raspberry Pi, although I put the service on a web server which runs a WordPress redirect for a web service instead anyway...!

[Funk]

amongst many other bits of ageing tech, I have 15 IBM ThinkPads of varying model sat waiting for me to do something with them. I think at some stage I'll have to admit I'm never going to get round to doing anything with them and recycle or stick on Gumtree as a job lot...

[Boosted LS1]

My Saab 9000 and my TR7 V8.

[mickytruelove]

Cant find the charger but im gonna keep a hold of it to use as a paper weight.

[Djr1]

Tascam portastudio. 4 tracks onto a cassette. Days of fun during the late 90s through school/college recording albums worth of stuff. Used to have a box of chrome cassettes to use with it. Thought it had gone years ago but recently saved from the skip when we were clearing out my dad's house.

Totally obsolete in every way, but can't bear to get rid of it.

[eps]

mickytruelove said:

Cant find the charger but im gonna keep a hold of it to use as a paper weight.

I've probably got a charger lying around... The Nokia ones didn't change for ages and then they did...!

[garfylarfy]

Love the williams defender coin op! There's a chap on ebay who builds mame versions in the stand up cabinet...i must buy one

[Boosted LS1]

Djr1 said:

Tascam portastudio. 4 tracks onto a cassette. Days of fun during the late 90s through school/college recording albums worth of stuff. Used to have a box of chrome cassettes to use with it. Thought it had gone years ago but recently saved from the skip when we were clearing out my dad's house.

Totally obsolete in every way, but can't bear to get rid of it.

That's smart. Does it work?

[plasticpig]

Got quite a lot of old portable tech packed up in boxes.

My favorite being:


One piece of "old tech" I still use on a regular basis:



It's an IBM model M keyboard (manufactured in Scotland). Probably the best keyboard ever made.

[Djr1]

Boosted LS1 said:

That's smart. Does it work?

It does!

[motco]

Amstrad PPC640 'portable' PC

[mcflurry]

mickytruelove said:

Cant find the charger but im gonna keep a hold of it to use as a paper weight.

It won't need a charger, as the battery life is measured in decades

[mp3manager]

[mp3manager]

A1200 with phase 5 PowerPC and BVision board...and a host of other stuff hanging off the main board.

Edited by mp3manager on Thursday 14th September 13:32

[schmunk]

mp3manager said:

Ooh. I had a 2000 in the first PC I built myself - I couldn't afford the 3000.

[gobuddygo]

Cables you say!! I also have drawer full of more modern stuff.

[beko1987]

plasticpig said:

Got quite a lot of old portable tech packed up in boxes.

My favorite being:


One piece of "old tech" I still use on a regular basis:



It's an IBM model M keyboard (manufactured in Scotland). Probably the best keyboard ever made.

Their worth a ruddy fortune! I really want one for work, but they go for £150+ in good condition. Makes me cry when I think back to how many I saw in skips in my local office park, had a few and just binned them again after a while! Keep looking out at car boots etc for one, and got excited when my stepdad said he had a garage clearout and found 'an old keyboard' the other month but it was just a rubbish compaq job, not a proper Model M!

I bought a 1999 Thinkpad 240 from the car boot the other week. 290mhz 64mb ram. Upgraded the ram with a 128mb stick I happened to have, put a fresh install of windows 98, an old wireless B pcmcia card and browsed the internet with it the other night... No idea what I'll actually do with it but don't want to throw it. Might find some DOS games or similar and do some retro gaming.

[plasticpig]

beko1987 said:

Their worth a ruddy fortune! I really want one for work, but they go for £150+ in good condition. Makes me cry when I think back to how many I saw in skips in my local office park, had a few and just binned them again after a while! Keep looking out at car boots etc for one, and got excited when my stepdad said he had a garage clearout and found 'an old keyboard' the other month but it was just a rubbish compaq job, not a proper Model M!

The Unicomp keyboards are just as good. They are Model M keyboards in all but name as they used to manufacture Model M keyboards.