Oldest piece of "technology" that you own/used recently
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Super smash bros has been a staple drinking game in my college career. Good times.
As I said earlier, I still use my HP25 daily at work. It's a great calculator with gold contacts that'll never wear out. I had to replace the battery pack with regular AA's but it runs great.
My very first calculator (1974) was a Commodore that cost $30 but all it could do was simple arithmetic. It didn't have floating decimal, only a little switch that lit up a fixed decimal point two over for doing money calculations.
I saved up baling, bean-walking, and de-tasseling (sp?) money one summer to buy a crappy 8 inch black and white tv for my room when I was a kid. Pretty sure we didn't have a push button phone til I was in high school either. Of course, you only had to dial 4 numbers to call someone in town until I was possibly a junior in high school. I'm not even 40 yet....I'm on my way to crotchety old man already.
The original Super Mario Brothers on the old Nintendo is still as fun now as it was then. I can still beat it without dying, too. For N64, Dr Mario is the equivalent of cocaine.
It was like that in Huxley when I first moved there...local phone co-op for Huxley, Slater & Kelley, so just four digits. With the advent of personal faxes & internet, that died out. Too many lines.
Did you ever see the space ship pick up the viruses on Dr Mario? I played that game for hours after my boys went to bed.
I regularly use a 1963 Fisher 500c Tube Amp with my 2 channel source music. Sound quality beats anything that is created today. I paid to have it completely rebuilt.
Now that's what I'm talking about! Tubes rock music like nothing else.
I barely remember being able to pick up the phone and call friends with just the last 4 digits of their phone number.
I used a scientific instrument (Latchet in-line spectrophotometer for you chemistry folks out there) from the 1980's that runs on a computer from 1993, sporting Windows 3.1. To get my data I have to export it on to a 3.5" floppy, move that data on a second computer from the 3.5" floppy to USB, then transfer that USB to my regular work computer.
At home, the oldest piece of electronics I own is likely my Gamecube, or my Garmin etrex Vista Hcx GPS unit (it's now my cycling computer)
At home, the oldest piece of electronics I own is likely my Gamecube, or my Garmin etrex Vista Hcx GPS unit (it's now my cycling computer)
Use a Quasar microwave from 1983 nearly every day. Great microwave, though definitely a bit underpowered compared to modern microwaves.
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I break out the PlayStation and play Crash Bandicoot from time to time. Maybe even break out Spyro, but only if I have time.
