Tech that refuses to die

[pm128]

9 minutes ago, BuckGup said:

Same, I have the OG iPod too and people used to run with spindle hard drives attached to their arms lol

I only have 6th Gen iPod

[Senzelian]

Connect 3D ATi Radeon X1600 Pro from 2005.

Red PCB, cause RADEON and GAMING!

Looks like this:

[superfantastic]

I had a pc that I bought second hand  in 2010 and gamed on it a lot until october 2017 when I bought a new one. I never cleaned the thing and it was always running really hot. It finally started slowing down in 2017 and started throttling hard reaching 109C on my cpu. It was probably going to die pretty soon but I played on it until the day my new pc arrived.

 

Also, my old ps2 still works like a charm. Fire it up occasionaly.

[18358414]

Somehow nothing of mine ever dies... Samsung Galaxy S2, NEC Versa V50 laptop (great for distraction-less text editing), my car...  And hey, I've got a EEEPC 701 that still works somehow. 

 

Is 5 years long for a GPU?  If so, we'll throw in my 750TI

[Godlygamer23]

I don't have many "old tech that just won't die" but I do have a fair number of things that are close to being 10 years old, some of which was present when I did my original build, all of which is still in use. 

 

A Hanns-G monitor(present with original build)

WD 320GB hard drive(present with original build)

Intel 520 series 240GB SSD

Core i5 3570K

Enermax NAXN 750W power supply

 

At this point, all this stuff has a lot of sentimental value to me. 

 

 

[adrixonusonix]

Hi Guys,

 

My computer have refused to die for about 9 years, however gpu has passed out I think, PCB is quite bend. Linus has said that he can fix computers 

Let challenge him to fix this GPU or pc, if there is something wrong with other parts. I think the gpu is radeon HD5850 or HD6850 (or something from this era)

 

https://twitter.com/Adrian94873020/status/1310344793575358465?s=20

[Helly]

I have a 2.1GB Quantum Bigfoot that makes more noise then a blowymatron at full speed. But it still works perfectly fine last time i checked a few years ago.

My AMD systems i bought myself in 2001 and 2003 are both still running. With some newer but still old parts.

Of course things like our old NES from 1990 still work. Although the Four Score is broken, player 2 port doesn't work anymore that's a little sad.

[Radium_Angel]

HP 28S scientific calculator from mid 80s. Eats batteries but has yet to be surpassed in the calculator world.

RPN for life!

[DavidKalinowski]

I've got an old Dell laptop with a core2 duo that still works just fine. Also my old towers internals; Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L core 2 q6600 (OC@3.0Ghz) 4GB of RAM, and a Geforce 210 GPU because I still want video out. Its mounted on a board, mounted on my wall, Its going to run either a backup server or plex maybe. not sure yet.

[A1200]

Amiga 1200 (of course!)

[Zomeguy]

Motorola Xoom tablet, Microsoft Surface Pro 1st version. Surface Pro is still usable but the Xoom is too slow and painful to use.

[Rym]

Have 2 Kingston SSDs from 2010 or something, just 60gb and 120gb ones. They still going strong, all my other hard drives died way waaaaayyy earlier.

[CommanderAlex]

I still have a WD Blue 1TB drive from 2015 still kicking around with games and school work on it (Produced in Aug of 2015...was curious when cleaning my rig out last week).

 

I have a couple old Mac Pros hanging around as I love the looks (A 1.1, 3.1, & 4.1-> flashed 5.1 with a RX 480 and 3.33Ghz dual Xeon 6c/12t (12c/24t total) on my desk as I am typing this) I do also have another 1.1 as I got it for pretty cheap after the seller attempted to hackintosh it with El Capitan but couldn't flash to 2.1. Also have a 2014 MacBook Pro 13" that has a temp issue when having multiple tabs open (suspect the TIM is bad (AS5 applied multiple times) but the fan spins normally, just bad cooling on Apple's part). 

 

Also have a Nintendo 64, SNES, and PlayStation 1 (Space invaders and Crash are the only two games I have...), Xbox 360 S (for DVDs). 

[Silentprototipe]

My PC counts as something that just refuses to die. Complete garbage OEM machine but good lord it refuses to die. Even with 7 years under the OEM PSU time bomb and only 3 years with a decent one its still alive. Windows 10 obliterates that ancient machine but its the only way I can print anything so thats why its stuck around 

[Morris_lee_9116]

On 9/26/2020 at 6:52 PM, Morris_lee_9116 said:

I have a HP G32 13 inch laptop from around 2011, it have a first gen core i3 390M and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470. It was originally my sister's laptop until she got a Mac Book 2015 at that year and then handed it down to me, I'm still using that as my daily laptop driver but with 240GB Kingston A400 2.5 inch SSD and Lubuntu since that laptop can't run Win 10 smoothly

I recently just took it apart and re applied thermal paste on the CPU and GPU(I also done the same thing on chipset, also I just ordered a replacement keyboard for my laptop but it hasn't arrived yet. I might also get a i7-640M(it uses PGA style socket so i can upgrade it) and find some used double sided 4GB DDR3 SO-DIMM sticks since it's Arrandale

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

Anyone remember those TomyTronic games that you used to put up to your eyes like a pair of binoculars?

 

I had the white one, which was a 3 lane racing game.

 

God, I loved that as a kid.

 

It's what really got me into gaming...that, and my Amstrad CPC 464 with the green screen monitor.

 

I still have the keyboard.

 

It had a cassette deck attached which was how the games ran...yes, on cassette tape. 

 

They took 10 minutes to load and made an awful sound whilst doing so.

[PlayStation 2]

Ignoring game consoles (in which I can list an NES there if you really want me to), I have an old ThinkPad from early 2002 that still functions perfectly fine... well, except for the battery, but to be fair, said battery is older than a lot of people here. 

I also have VHS tapes dating back to 1982 that play perfectly fine in a VCR that's 30 years newer than said tape.

[mwagen]

I'm still using my Samsung Galaxy S4 mini from ~2013 I think. Still on the original battery and pretty much never turn it off. I've never used a case protector and it's been dropped a lot so there's lots of bumps and bruises but the screen is still perfect and everything works. 

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

5 hours ago, handymanshandle said:

Ignoring game consoles (in which I can list an NES there if you really want me to), I have an old ThinkPad from early 2002 that still functions perfectly fine... well, except for the battery, but to be fair, said battery is older than a lot of people here. 

I also have VHS tapes dating back to 1982 that play perfectly fine in a VCR that's 30 years newer than said tape.

Remember the big camcorders that had a small vcr cassette that you recorded on?

 

Then you took it out and it went inside a regular video cassette in a little compartment so it could be played straight back on any vcr?

[PlayStation 2]

4 minutes ago, Maury Sells Wigs said:

Remember the big camcorders that had a small vcr cassette that you recorded on?

 

Then you took it out and it went inside a regular video cassette in a little compartment so it could be played straight back on any vcr?

Yep, VHS-C and S-VHS-C camcorders. Got those little motorized adapters and wham-o, you can play the tapes on any regular VHS machine... well, if it's an S-VHS-C tape, on a machine that has SQPB, S-VHS ET support or is a straight S-VHS player. 

On a related note, my parents still have an old Hi8 camcorder from 2001 or 2002 that still functions perfectly fine.

[Mr. Question Asker]

I don't think this is relevant to post but still I am posting my picture of Air Conditioner. Voltas Vertis Gold.

 

It's been over 10 years

 

- Zero Complaints till date

- Only servicing has been done

- No gas leakage

- Powerful cooling till date

 

 

[Tanaz]

Sega Genesis. Got it when I was 5 for Christmas. Still works 20 years later ( yes I got it late we were poor) . Too lazy to dig it up from the depths of my basement but last year it was still working. The controllers however were and still are complete trash. Had to replace them every few months.

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

28 minutes ago, Tanaz said:

Sega Genesis. Got it when I was 5 for Christmas. Still works 20 years later ( yes I got it late we were poor) . Too lazy to dig it up from the depths of my basement but last year it was still working. The controllers however were and still are complete trash. Had to replace them every few months.

Those old consoles are bullet proof. 

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

1 hour ago, handymanshandle said:

Yep, VHS-C and S-VHS-C camcorders. Got those little motorized adapters and wham-o, you can play the tapes on any regular VHS machine... well, if it's an S-VHS-C tape, on a machine that has SQPB, S-VHS ET support or is a straight S-VHS player. 

On a related note, my parents still have an old Hi8 camcorder from 2001 or 2002 that still functions perfectly fine.

I miss all that. 

 

Everything is digital now, nothing tactile.

[sub68]

I have a couple handhelds and consoles

ps2, sega gensis ,game boy advanced and ds

also sandisk clip jams those little plastic mp3 players never die