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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:29 am |
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Holt!
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:42 am |
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Still rocking the surround sound AIWA stereo from 1995. The CD player is screwed, the tray remains open all the time, but it still jams. I play CDs thru using either the Dreamcast, the DVD player or the Xbox.
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 10:49 am |
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It's All About The Pelvic Thrusts
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:41 am |
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This is a job... for Superman.
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Jeff wrote: RobertSwanderson wrote: TV in our bathroom.... Really?  Except for our laundry room, you can see a television from every room in our house. (We're not rich, every TV is an old style picture tube television.) I ran cable and power from our attic to the bathroom towel cabinet, so that our old portable TV could sit on the shelf and be seen in the large wall mirror over the sink. So if you're shaving or in the tub, you can look in the mirror and see the TV in reverse. (And from the can.) And if the towel cabinet is closed, you don't know that we have an old TV in the bathroom. We never buy a new TV until an old one can no longer be repaired. The problem is, I have an awesome TV repair guy in my neighborhood. And relatives tend to throw out their picture tube TVs because they'd rather buy a flatscreen for a couple of hundred instead of paying a hundred to repair the old one. My guy usually fixes them for forty, so I end up with an extra used TV now and then. As the kids move out of the house, they each take one, so we rarely have a true "extra" being unused. I don't know if we'll ever get a flatscreen. Maybe if the repair guy quits fixing picture tube sets. I'm the kind of guy that would rather fix something for $50 instead of buying a new one for $100.
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Hank
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:48 am |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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Probably my web server...It's a Pentium 3 600Mhz running Windows 2000 server.
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:55 am |
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The Pope of Pop!
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I have a Sharp solar powered calculator that my best friend got me when I started working in NYC in 1981. I still use it.
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Mike Howell
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:26 pm |
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I have a Commodore Vic 20 from 1982 that I still use to play Poker on at least once a week.
My cell phone is a slider from Samsung that I think is a 2004/2005 model.
I have a VCR from the early 90's I use to watch the wrestling I taped in the 80's/90's.
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TS Garp
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 12:32 pm |
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Bigfoot
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I still use my solar powered calculator from drafting school in 1985.
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Jilerb
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:12 pm |
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Kinda Close For One Of These Jewels.
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I guess my HP-15C calculator. It's about 30 years old, IIRC. 
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Ed Sanders
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:10 am |
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Still have a Toshiba 19 inch TV in my bedroom I got in 1988...
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Rafael
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:45 am |
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I Want To Believe
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Jilerb wrote: I guess my HP-15C calculator. It's about 30 years old, IIRC.  I have one of those!
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Junkie Luv
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 12:04 pm |
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I am INTELLIGENCE!
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I have a CD/cassette player from 1990 or so. The CD player doesn't work, but I still listen to the radio and play cassettes on it.
I have a CD Walkman from 2000.
My stereo tuner was bought in 1986.
But my stereo speakers were bought in 1969! My dad got them in Japan when he was overseas in Vietnam.
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Hank
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:28 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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This is the stereo I took to college in 1991:  In 1993 the left channel of the amp died. Broke my heart.
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:30 pm |
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You bought an 8 Track tape player in 1991?
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Brotoro
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 12:56 pm |
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Friendly, Furry, Ellipsoidal
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An 8-track player WITH LIGHTED PROGRAM INDICATORS, Robert.
Makes all the difference in the world.
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:08 pm |
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I still have my speakers from my Radio Shack Realistic 8 Track player in my closet.
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Hank
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:46 pm |
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Good Stuff, Maynard!
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RobertSwanderson wrote: You bought an 8 Track tape player in 1991? My folks bought it in 1971.
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RobertSwanderson
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 4:17 pm |
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Hank wrote: RobertSwanderson wrote: You bought an 8 Track tape player in 1991? My folks bought it in 1971. 8 Tracks were Star Trek tech in '71.
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dustydan
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:48 pm |
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It's been a few months now, but my Sega Genesis is still plugged in down by my AppleTV. The outputs aren't compatible anymore apparently, so about all I can do is play Monopoly in crappy black and white.
And I play music from my iPhone through the cassette player in my car.
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Steve
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:32 pm |
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Heh, that's like the jack on stereos that still reads "Phono" for phonograph. Anachronism.
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Ron Zoso
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:21 pm |
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Is it Friday yet?
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Probably my alarm clock radio in my bedroom. At least 20 years old.
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Li'l Jay
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Post subject: What's the oldest tech device you own that you still use? Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 10:23 pm |
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I don't think it's nice, you laughin' . . .
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Ron Zoso wrote: Probably my alarm clock radio in my bedroom. At least 20 years old. Mine is about 20 years old, too. It is perfect.
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