I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it’s a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?

  • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    My 90s bike.

    Most of the components have certainly evolved when you look at a modern counterpart.

    But it’s still fully repairable, serviceable at home or on the trail, extremely reliable, and doesn’t require any firmware updates or batteries to use 😄

    • Cantilever rim brakes.
    • Square tapered bottom bracket.
    • Cup and cone hub bearings.
    • External cables.
    • Friction shifters (may latest “upgrade”!)
    • Steel frame.

    So much about it is “outdated”, but I love the hell out of it.

    EDIT: Photo of my metal steed in “winter mode”. LOL

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Still have the first computer I bought with my own money, and it still works. It’s an Amiga 500 from 1991. I fire it up and play ancient games with it once in a while, on the ancient 1084s CRT monitor.

    Also had one of the super rare A3000T’s but unfortunately the battery corroded the motherboard while I had it stored away. I didn’t even learn about that problem until researching what had gone wrong with my beautiful Amiga tower. C’est la vie. At least I was able to get an image of the 120MB SCSI hard drive, which I can boot up in an emulator and relive the glory days of 1993.