What's the oldest piece of tech you still use?

[SpaceGhostC2C]

9 hours ago, Cohacq said:

Not "I still use fire and a knife", but more "I still use casette tapes".

What is the difference, though? If you want a restricted subset, what would the restriction be? Electronics only?

[TopHatProductions115]

AMD Turion 64 x2 TL58? Intel Centrino (Dell Inspiron)?! Imac (Intel, right after the G5 - polar white)?!?

[8uhbbhu8]

Consoles: SNES

PC's IBM 300GL

Handhelds: Gameboy

Phones: OG Droid

[flibberdipper]

Kind of a tie between my Presario 2286 with a Cyrix MII (used for games/MIDIs, kinda ironic since the machine coming up is a good bit faster) and my ProSignia 165 with Windows 2K on it (used for money management and ironically when I start college, probably that too when I'm at home).

[light-v]

My oldest PC still in service is an office unit running a K10 Althlon II x3. In my main rig the oldest component is a 7 years old 1TB HDD

[ZcanKal]

The oldest piece of tech I have is probably my Nintendo 64, which is still in great condition, thankfully.

[MrTiC]

1 hour ago, Monkey Dust said:

Another Nintendo NES user here, though admittedly it gets nowhere near as much use as my SNES.

 

No one here still use their Master System? Where is team Sega?

i still have my master system 2 got it when i was 5 in 1991

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Depends on what you mean by tech. My washer and dryer are 20 years old. My refrigerator is 44 years old. My cordless phones are 15 years old.

[Crunchy Dragon]

My phone is a Galaxy S3.

 

I have a dual Athlon MP system that I loaded Windows XP onto for a bit of retro gaming, complete with GeForce4 MX420 AGP.

 

I don't use this next one, but I have a keyboard in my basement that uses an AT connector.

[Plank]

I think it‘s my Gameboy Advance 

[tatte]

I have a 2006 Mac Pro hooked to my TV, not the most convenient living room PC, but certainly looks good. My 2010 Macbook Pro also sees a fair bit of use. On the PC side it'll be my Phenom 945 system (2009) I shamelessly store at my dad's for the few times a year I visit. My oldest keyboard is a Logitech media keyboard from late 00s, not particularly old, but it's the first keyboard I bought myself so it holds a special value.

 

My Xbox from 2001 would be the oldest console I still use enough to fit here. I have a Game Boy Color from 1998 and PlayStation 2 from 2000, but I haven't used those in a long time.

 

Moving on to the specific retro hardware. My current preferred "retro" build has Athlon 2800+ from 2002, so not particularly old. Sees use about as often as the 945, but for shorter periods at a time, not honestly sure if it should even count. I have a couple of 300MHz systems that rarely get out of the closet, and a Commodore 64C (1987) that gets used a few times a year. My crown jewel would be VIC-20 (1981), but it's not in working order at the moment.

 

While it doesn't count at the moment either, I pick up sealed blank VHS-tapes (1976) whenever I find them on flea markets and such, looking towards to the day I have more space and can set up a proper entertainment center. I'd love to do the same with C-cassettes, but blank sealed ones for the right price are a rare sight, and coming across with this stuff by chance is a significant part of the hobby, as it's not even an active hobby yet. I of course pick up floppies (3½") in the same manner.

[Beef Boss]

My windows XP machine from the 2000's....that and my Vista pc. 

[Adorable Cat]

I use a Geforce 6200 whenever I need a graphics card really quick or am having problems, and one of my computers has a Athlon XP 3000+.

[Aayush009]

Intel pentium 4 3.06Ghz with 32Mb of ATI onboard graphics memory.

I don't use it that much anymore but sometimes i play some old games that i used to play 14 years ago just for fun. 

 

[aless83]

I've got both Master System 1 & 2 laying around. Everytime I connect it to a 55" TV, I go half-blind

[JoeCoke]

The oldest tech I own that I actually "use"? My Dell Optiplex GX110, I use it as my music player, and for fun sometimes I'll do work for my WIP game on it.

Coppermine Pentium iii, 512mb of RAM and a 9200 pro.

 

If you count consoles in this discussion, then yeah that'd be my NES, SNES and N64 I still break out from time to time. But usually I emulate so that's not very often.

[seagate_surfer]

On 4/17/2018 at 10:02 AM, Tarun10 said:

I also have an external Seagate FreeAgent Desk 1TB that is almost 9 years old.

Glad to hear that FreeAgent Desk is still kicking for you

[fringie]

I don't really use it but it's in my computer but I'll eventually remove it. Western digital Green 1tb drive, it's probably around 8 years old. The next oldest thing would be my xbox 360 controller then ps4 for context so the HDD is the oldest. Not sure if that even counts though as all my stuff is on SSD, I'm just lazy

[Ithanul]

On 4/17/2018 at 7:49 AM, chckovsky said:

CD's, probably. Man, I love CD's, such a good tech.

Still have CDs too and use them.

Still use an old iPod Classic.

 

Hmmmm, my RTi 150s probably consider old.  Still sound like champs when bi-amped though.

 

I also still have a PS2 and Gamecube I fire up at times.

[Lady Fitzgerald]

2 hours ago, Ithanul said:

Still have CDs too and use them...

CDs are the only way I will buy my music. The audio quality is superior to what one can get from a download plus you get far more information about the tracks, composers, and artists from the case inserts. I rip them to MP3 (320kbps) and .wav after I get them.

[Automobili3XF]

My Onkyo Integra A-817XD, made in Japan back in 1988. 

I use it every single day for at least 4 hours at a time, its a very, very good amp, but i should probably recap it when i get the chance.

[Tarun10]

I have an Asus GeForce 210. How old is that??? 6 years?? I also have this Netgear N router that was the latest model sometime I am sure it is almost 12 years old.

[marten.aap2.0]

My Pentium III Box, a computer with a Pentium III, 512MB RAM, crappy gpu and more $#!t. (I only use it to get data of PATA drives).

or a 6.01GB mini PATA drive I use as an external harddrive. (found in an old laptop which first had a dual boot of winXP and winNT)

[josh conquest]

watched all 8 harry potter films on a 30 odd inch crt the other day 

[Ithanul]

20 hours ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

CDs are the only way I will buy my music. The audio quality is superior to what one can get from a download plus you get far more information about the tracks, composers, and artists from the case inserts. I rip them to MP3 (320kbps) and .wav after I get them.

Same, plus, cheap to boot now, especially with Best Buy offloading theirs (nabbed a few for under 7 bucks each).