Old tech that you should throw away but you don't

[Linksys120n]

If this topic already exist I'm sorry but I didn't know how to search for something with such a long title...

 

So this topic is for old pieces of tech that you should either replace or throw out entirely HOWEVER I WILL NOT COUNT ANYTHING THAT IS STILL IN USE OR STILL PLUGGED IN...

 

I will also accept old files on a hard drive if you haven't had use for them in lets draw the line at 3 full years... If you had use for the files sooner then that they don't count.

 

So my 1st example is this old dirty grimy disgusting 10 foot USB mini B 2.0 wire that I have had for about 12 years now... The picture doesn't do this thing justice it's dirty and sticky....

 

I should get rid of it but what if one day I find an old Sony PSP at a yard sale for 10 bucks and I need a wire to load homebrew on it???

 

 

[Lord Nicoll]

4 minutes ago, Linksys120n said:

-snip-

Pentium 4's, I have 7 of them now, one day I'll throw them out, today is not that day. 

[Linksys120n]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Pentium 4's, I have 7 of them now, one day I'll throw them out, today is not that day. 

Please edit my quote to simply say the word snip.

[SPARTAN VI]

I have a BFG GeForce 7950GT and a XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 640mb (yes, XFX used to be team green, kiddos) as back-up cards. The fact that my i7 6700's integrated Intel HD 530 graphics is actually 2x faster than the 8800 GTS kinda makes it a moot point to have these as back-ups, but they're still invaluable troubleshooting tools nonetheless. 

 

 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Linksys120n said:

Please edit my quote to simply say the word snip.

I already did that, you should F5 more often. 

[DarkEnergy]

Memory sticks. I probably have 10 or more all DDR and DDR2. Pentium and core2quad processors laying around too. 

 

I also have an Apple iMac g3, g4, macbook clamshell, and a mac mini from ~2004. The g3 and g4 iMacs take up a ton of space but I'm not sure if I want to get rid of them. 

[MysticLTT]

OnePlus One.

[Linksys120n]

1 minute ago, DarkEnergy said:

I also have an Apple iMac g3

I'm sitting right next to one but I still use it from time to time to mess around with and I only bought it like less than 2 years ago... I kinda like it...

[Zodiark1593]

An ATI Rage 2C, and the gutted case of my Athlon XP system.

[Linksys120n]

a possibly broken original raspberry pi model A...

[Linksys120n]

I think I'm gonna break my own rule here and say it's time I upgrade and replace my 20 year old clock radio that's so old the radio part is pretty much broken...

 

 

[yathis]

I hate analog radio alarm clocks.

FYI never buy blue clock, stimulates eyeballz

Best alarm clock ever, Best Western in Kelowna, fade in to radio.

[Linksys120n]

10 hours ago, yathis said:

FYI never buy blue clock, stimulates eyeballz

Yeah so I've heard.

[Teddy07]

wow, people still keep the garbage. I always sell or throw away old stuff. 

[deleted_91729]

A 15 year old overclocked Athlon XP system. (Yeah my phone is faster than it...)

[HelpMeOrIWillSuffer]

14 hours ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Pentium 4's, I have 7 of them now, one day I'll throw them out, today is not that day. 

Can I have them?

[HelpMeOrIWillSuffer]

14 hours ago, spartanvi said:

-Snip-

Cool. xdxd can i have it xdxdx

[You_are_a_cunt]

Three quarters of the boxes in my storage unit that are waiting to be moved to a new apartment where they'll get sorted for the billionth time, spread across whatever space I have, only to be reboxed when I eventually move again.

[Coaxialgamer]

I have an athlon 64 x2 system with a half functional oem board and 2gb of ddr2. 

 

[MUD03]

My office closet is full of old computer stuff I will never use... 

[DXMember]

PS/2 to USB adapter

[SpaceGhostC2C]

- A wireless phone (for landline), in a box for 5 years. But my parents gave it to me way back when, so I don't feel like it's up to me to decide its fate.

- A US cellphone (old no-SIM-card syle), absolutely unusable regardless of carrier locks, etc.

- Some wirless headphones (FM frequency) which sound bad in wireless mode and good in wired mode, but destroy my ears after a few minutes of wearing them.

- 2 Dell smartphones with broken screens (and probably a couple of spare batteries and other accessories for them).

[Lord Nicoll]

8 hours ago, HelpMeOrIWillSuffer said:

Can I have them?

idk, shipping is a pain, but if you just want the legal definition of having them without me having to send them sure.

[aarondatechguy]

I still have an old 3DFX Voodoo 2 graphics accelerator card. Can't throw that puppy away. cost me a fortune back in 99. Saved my first month of pay checks for that guy

[Lethalmonk]

20 hours ago, Linksys120n said:

I think I'm gonna break my own rule here and say it's time I upgrade and replace my 20 year old clock radio that's so old the radio part is pretty much broken...

 

 

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HOWEVER I WILL NOT COUNT ANYTHING THAT IS STILL IN USE OR STILL PLUGGED IN...

but but but, you wrote it in caps!?!