Comments on: Got Any Old Tech From The Last Decade Still Sitting Around The House?

By: Jonquil

Jonquil — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:44:35 +0000

Somewhere I have a Sinclair that was the first cheap programmable calculator. Bought it in high school. Gleaming white. It eventually stopped working, but I just couldn’t bear to toss it.

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Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:23:00 +0000

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By: Kate Y.

Kate Y. — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:46:41 +0000

I know I should get rid of all that stuff….But every time I come across them I feel a wave of affection.

Honey, we all need more waves of affection in our lives. Reason enough to keep such things.

I have a box labeled Kate’s Trunk. Would live in the attic if we had one. Contains, among other things, a favorite saucepan, my TI-30 calculator from high school, and my second cell phone (cute, and purple, and inexplicably designed with an irreplaceable battery. But cute!! and purple!!

By: Martyn44

Martyn44 — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:17:22 +0000

A USB floppy drive (I threw out several hundred disks just last year) on top of which rests an HP PDA which I wish still worked ‘cos it was more convenient for me than the HP mininote that replaced it when is ceased to USB any more. VHS tapes and a player (mostly stuff that reminds us when the kids were kids)! Vinyl records but no player.

By: mlp

mlp — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:16:44 +0000

Oh gosh. Let’s see …

Somewhere in a box, I still have the Palm V that I bought my first year of graduate school. I remember deliberating for hours over whether I should get it or the VII, because the VII had wireless; the deciding factor turned out to be that Iowa didn’t have coverage.

I also have the second MP3 player I ever bought, a 128MB Creative Labs device that was the first MP3-player-in-a-USB-stick I’d ever seen. It replaced the 32MB Rio that I’d bought off eBay two years before, and I was amazed with how much storage it had. (These days, my cellphone charm is a thumbnail-sized 2GB USB stick that I snagged out of a box of leftover schwag from a conference my husband’s department hosted. Oh, the times they are a’changin’.)

Apart from that it’s mostly laptops and desktops: an elderly Dell with approximately the same amount of CPU and RAM that my netbook has, at about three times the weight; a PowerBook G4; the homebuilt PC that I upgraded over and over between 1994 and 2004, now frozen in time with a dual Athlon CPU of some socket that isn’t manufactured anymore.

Oh, and the pair of NeXT cubes. Which I haven’t actually used, but they’re a neat little piece of history.