Show Off Your Old Tech!

[ionbasa]

Well I wanted to see what sort of archaic and collectible tech people have been gathering or have held on to. Post a picture of what you have and a short description of what it is.

 

I'll start with: 

 

The first item is a 5 1/4 inch floppy diskette "Minifloppy" manufactured be 3M, is single sided, coated with 2 µm magnetic iron oxide, and is a high density, thus providing up to 1.2Mb of data storage!

 

The following three images are of an early "Mechanical Sample" from an Intel Pentium "P54C" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P5_(microarchitecture) This chip was released before an actual engineering sample was even made. The retail chip featured 3.2 Million transistors, operated at 3.3 Volts, and had a whopping 120 Mhz clock speed (I kid you not).

[Arshdeep]

Pentium 4 (2-3)

My brain...

[Sarcasm]

My tablet

 

 

I've never understood how people do math on normal lined paper...

[TheSLSAMG]

I have some DDR, but it's not worth taking pics of. I may buy an 8088 soon.

[M-ursu]

The oldest piece of crap which i own is ASUS gtx 650, i have sold every old part.

[ionbasa]

My tablet

 

 

I've never understood how people do math on normal lined paper...

Same here, I only use graph paper for working out math, it helps me keep everything legible and organized.

 

The oldest piece of crap which i own is ASUS gtx 650, i have sold every old part.

Ha, that is still fairly new, I wouldn't consider it "old" tech.

[D3MON]

Will be back later with more but for now...
 

My (still working) amd athlon k6 650mhz slot A running a black/vista themed XP and 512mb of SD ram (yeah I know HALF A GIG!) and xp sp2, has chrome, vlc media player, cpu-z (i think), speccy...on a 40gb western digital black drives (no they're actually black, was testing 2 drives in this picture, like the cable managment?)

yeah I overclocked it (bios has 4 presets one of which is 10% i.e 715mhz, 15% 747.5mhz crashes in windows, theres no voltage options on this dqi kinetiz 7A board..

the graphics card,  an inno 3d mx440 64mb and black pcb lol
Last year i treated it to a black and red CIT mars case (£10 from a friend that bought it by mistake) in homage to linus's "amd vision black" video.

got lots more but I my eyes are killing me

[Sarcasm]

I also have a Blackberry Bold 9000. When was the last time you've seen someone with a Blackberry not wearing a suit?

[Emkryan]

Oldest thing I have is an athlon x2 3800. It's out of the socket and dead so I'll make a key chain out of it when I get the tools

[Kuzma]

I also have a Blackberry Bold 9000. When was the last time you've seen someone with a Blackberry not wearing a suit?

Me, I have a curve 9300 that I love...

[joelthezombie15]

The oldest piece of crap which i own is ASUS gtx 650, i have sold every old part.

Ill buy it

[_wky]

How's this?:

 

[Giggitygoebbels]

These are stuff lying around but will never be used(for some)

Gigabyte 8VM-533 Mobo S478

HP Compaq DX2000MT (Motherboard) S478

Some DDR RAM,1x512,3x256

1x256MB DDR2 Rendition

IDE cables

An old light 350W PSU,brand is "Switching Power supply",something i will not trust,but still use it for backup.

Samsung SP802N 80GB,SP842N 80GB,Both IDE 7200RPM

40GB Seagate Barrucuda 7200RPM IDE

20GB Quantum Fireball Plus IDE

10GB Quantum Fireball LCT IDE,only left drive motor and circuit board

Pentium 4,2.66GHz Northwood,2.8GHz Prescott,both S478

CD ROM Drive IDE(very heavy for some reason)

[BenD]

my nokia 7210 wich is still runing and providing me days of battery life! oh and i am still using it, tired of smartphones

[Shrubpig]

I have an old CD player I got for my birthday a long time ago It still has my R2-D2 sticker on it too.

[lufihengr]

[Scottonpc]

Gameboy Advance SP, Sony Ericsson and an MP3 player

[Scottonpc]

 

 

[Guest]

Ironically I'm using it right now....

[Lord Pantaloons]

[MadZee]

I've got 2x1gb DDR RAM, an old, and VERY heavy HP laptop with a P4 and my old P4HT, FX5200, 1gb DDR machine. I'll try to get the pics later.

[GigaSnow]

So, I got to wondering, what is the oldest piece of technology that you still use, in a practical sense?

 

For the sake of discussion, let's leave out old video game consoles.

 

For me personally, I have a couple.

 

1. iPod Nano - Second Generation (2007)

 

-In the world of MP3 players, it's fairly old. Heck, I think the concept of using an MP3 is pretty old (crazy, isn't it?). Still works, no real reason to get rid of it. It's great for travel.

 

2. Windows XP Desktop (circa 2004)

 

-It's running an old AMD Duron. It runs fairly smooth. I like to use it as a tinkering machine.

 

 

[Aniallation]

My original HTC Desire... from flagship to barely being able to handle sending texts, in 5 years.

[Pugs501]

Mechanical Pencil and Paper

[kipper]

Sega Dreamcast HKT-3030

Sony Trinitron CRT 37 inch (DC and PS2)

Sony PS2 Slim SCPH-70003

Microshaft Original XBOX (two of them modified)

Nintendo 64

PS3 320GB Phat 65NM CELL/RSX (last Phat to exist)