>be me
>using dell xps m1330 laptop from 2007
still werks, dual core t8100 4gb ddr2, running windows 10 and its pretty fast, good screen although 13 inch but still better quality than chinkpad, 1080p streaming works unless its 60 fps.
doesnt feel to spend cash to get upgraded
anyone else use old tech daily?
kys poorfag
t. spends 1000$ on laptop to surf Reddit
>13 inch
how do you live in the jungle like that? anything below 23" drives me bananas
"Old" casio watch
~4 years old smsrtphone
~laptop older memepad (t440p)
also livingroom hi-fi, tv and videoprojector all are over 10 years old.
I've got an early 90s Technics stereo receiver and speakers, and early 90s worn out as fuck Sennheiser headphones I still use occasionally. My MX518 is about ten years old at this point which is ancient for mice. Also my 2500K is #neverobsolete.
its actually not that bad, its 13 inch but 1280x800 res and thin bezels
I use thinkpad T60 during the summer (too hot to run a desktop). It can barely manage 720p though, and only if I'm careful to make sure scaling doesn't happen (vid card only handles mpeg2).
that is kinda based, those laptops before chinknovo bought them
I use a Thinkpad Z61t running windows vista and still use my iPhone 3GS
My computer is 3 years old but was a cheapo Socket FM2+ build so it isn't very powerful. I also use a 5 year old LG G3 smartphone with Resurrection Remix (Android 9 version).
I'm actually considering going back to my P3 and Nokia 3310.
Oldest thing I'm using is a Casio from 1988 which was my first watch.
I use some old stuff, but nothing major that sees heavy use.
I have a 100Mbps switch that I still use, must be 15+ years old now.
A Sony "mini-HiFi" that's probably over 15 years old now, it's used as my TV sound system
A ~25 year old digital clock that has been running constantly
I also use a 10+ year old PDA to display shit like CPU/GPU load and temperature
A ~10 year old laptop is still pulling HTPC duty in the living room, does fine for everything up to and including 1080p 10bit H264 (24FPS)
My watch must be ~15 years old too by now
Plenty of other things which are in the 5-10 year old range, but I don't really think of those as very old. My desktop's CPU is a 4790K, though I'm looking to get a 3900X whenever that shit is actually in stock and can be purchased without dedicating my entire life to refreshing online shop pages twice every minute.
I like my Z61t, but it runs hot as living fuck.
pretty good. sometimes we can take lessons from the past.
>anyone else still using old tech unironically as daily driver?
How does a Bleasdale Unix mini computer (built in 1979) with 7 terminals attached via serial ports sound?
We are actually using them in our company instead of computers, for our database and email system, via pine email system
NOT EVEN JOKING
How's the maintenance?
Do you maintain and fix them or do you guys call some old ass bearded computer wizard?
I still use my A4000(with accelerator) for pixel art, my P1-133 with DOS for some old games and my Compaq iPAQ for notes.
It has never broken down except for the scsi disks and the last time we had a failure we had to find a 10MB scsi drive which for some reason had to be imported from the USA (oh because of the scsi port on the drive )
is that really considered old?
>and the last time we had a failure we had to find a 10MB scsi drive which for some reason had to be imported from the USA (oh because of the scsi port on the drive )
Ouch.
You don't replace old HDDs with other old old HDDs, especially when you're (for some not really clever reason) still use the stone age computer hardware for your working environment.
The proper way would have been to find some sort of adapter either to IDE (and then maybe even to solid state with CF cards which are IDE compatible) or routing the storage over network to some recent machine.
Old HDDs are a fucking gamble. It is highly likely that you guys will start to burn through them more and more which is shit for your business and shit for old computer collectors.
but why? so you can't look at porn?
Grow up.
where do you think you are
>2500k and MX518
fuck yea
And a 70s Akai stereo system
My alarm clock is from the early 80s and has one of those metal touch sensors for snooze that's technically referenced to the mains.
A 486dx100 DOS PC that runs a chip programmer off ISA for custom ICs that a customer still uses and there's no modern equivalent for.
And a pocket watch made at some point in the early 1900s because wristwatches are a stupid idea around machinery.
>casio watch
>arabic newspaper framed in the shot
kek
Fug you, Akai gear is great
Oh wait that's multilingual. Still funny that it's there though.
boston ba635 speakers from some gateway prebuilt from 1996
when they finally shit the bed i was going to replace them but then found another set on ebay for $35 which is about $100 less than a comparable set of new speakers so i just bought another set. don't fix what aint broken
Because it does the job?
i don't believe it, there is no way to repair this at this point and they do break down after several years
Model M, date 1991
1999 Toyota Celica
Panasonic speakers and Denon amp ~1980s
GPO 706 landline phone 1966
hmmm, how does a pulse phone still work?
How new are you?
what? people do own old tech, they just don't use it often so it keep running
My landline provider still supports pulse dialling. I'm building a bluetooth adaptor, and even failing that you can easily get a pulse to DTMF converter.
I grew up being tied to boomer tech from 1999, when I finally got my own computer that wasn't a hand me down it was basically the end of me using old tech. I miss the aesthetic but I don't miss only being tied to pre-2000 PC games and emulators for vidya or all the little workarounds I had for making XP run at bearable speed. That's not to say I'm blindly using new things that are shit, like Windows 10.
13 inches with a low DPI is peak comfy
Do they give you special glasses so that you don't deep fry your eyes, or do old CRT's not do that?
I have a dell xps m1710 which has a beautiful screen and like 4gb of ram but all the drivers for the geforce 7900gs post windows xp are fucked. When I try to watch anything on youtube the whole system becomes unstable and sluggish.
I know this is more about computers, but I use a transistor radio from the 50s when working in the garage.
$10 at a flea market, still works great. Lovely wood case. The transistors are pretty funky looking, sort of like a shiny black sputnik.
I have some tube radios (also ham radio stuff and test equipment) from the 40s and 30s that I'm planning to restore at some point.