Do you still use obsolete technology?

[Jon-T]

I eat with a Fork and Spoon like my grandaddy I'l be damned if ever convert to those Spork things.

 

[Crono]

I am the obsolete technology

[Amazon drone picks up Crono, and drops him into a disposal unit at Amazon Waste and Storage, facility 4]

 

[sdifox]

I still use my 47 year old body, does that count?

 

[snoopy7548]

I still drive a manual transmission car.

 

[John Connor]

This conversation reminds me of a classic Twilight Zone episode. It's where this old woman lived in a rigidity old house nestled in between a sprawling city who never left the house to see the outside. Meanwhile, the Grim reaper kept trying to get her, and with every attempt of trickery he made she caught him and warded off Death's spell. But it wasn't until she heard a policeman knock at the door who had been shot that things changed. She put the policeman in her bed and bandaged his wounds and kept him well. Then reality sank in and it was in fact Death. But he presented himself as a very understanding and kind gentlemen who told her it was time to move on despite her reservations of dieing. In the end Death convinced her to step outside her rigidity old house and move on. Latter the wrecking ball came and the house was no more.

In conclusion, with time things out live their usefulness and the progress of everything around them evolves. So is too life. Both with our possessions and our vessel we call a body. So the world containing its atoms continues to spin and time moves forward until Earth too succumbs to it's end.

*Needs a song*

 

[John Connor]

I still drive a manual transmission car.

Did you know that the reason why military vehicles now a days are all automatic is because they found out a lot of soldiers couldn't drive stick?

 

[highland145]

Shit, we had this same discussion in 2013. Getting old sucks.

That's the part about being a lifer that no one talks about....having the same conversations over and over again. Year after year decade after decade. Sometimes it's with the same people sometimes it isn't but in the end it's always the same.

But it's still new...every time.

 

[eng2d2]

lol wut

Try stealing my data. The floppy drive spins and I unlatch it. That would be difficult to steal my data.

 

[OverVolt]

Oddly enough newer technology feels more disposable.

Older technology that was great in its time seems to be timeless in its utility. Gotta go feed my tamagotchi...

 

[sdifox]

Oddly enough newer technology feels more disposable.

Older technology that was great in its time seems to be timeless in its utility. Gotta go feed my tamagotchi...

Just remember to select top option (continue) when you change the battery.

 

[Thebobo]

Try stealing my data. The floppy drive spins and I unlatch it. That would be difficult to steal my data.

For some reason that remind me when Jobs announced the Next computer it had no floppy and I was like what??? How is that possible?

 

[bruceb]

Dell Dimension 8200 P4 at 1.8Ghz 2GB RAM with Windows XP PRO SP3 .. from about 2001 ... still does what it needs to. HP7410 Printer about 12 years old. Only issue is with the scanner at times, otherwise still fine. Motorola Razor V3M cell phone, also about 12 years old. Still works fine. I do have an old Sony VCR (vhs format) that only needed a new drive belt about 3 years ago. It is not hooked up at present and can not tape from the AT&T U-verse box (which does do DVR) -- Have a whole assortment of old style phones, some rotary, some touchtone (I have some where the "0" button shows the full word "operator" where the later ones only show "oper", some multiline, some with card dialers, a couple of types of speakerphone

 

[John Connor]

Try stealing my data. The floppy drive spins and I unlatch it. That would be difficult to steal my data.

EMP has that covered.

M-disk and Blu-ray here, yo! In fact, my websites are backed up to optical media frequently. The database is only like 3MB in size, but with public_html it grows to about 250MB in a SFX encrypted archive. So if an EMP does God forbid make America go neanderthal. Once the Internet comes back online (like 10 bloody years latter) I'd be one if not the first to reestablish a website. LOL

Full disclosure. I do have an USB Zip drive and floopy drive.

 

[John Connor]

Gotta go feed my tamagotchi...

Is that like Asian spaghetti?

 

[eng2d2]

EMP has that covered.

M-disk and Blu-ray here, yo! In fact, my websites are backed up to optical media frequently. The database is only like 3MB in size, but with public_html it grows to about 250MB in a SFX encrypted archive. So if an EMP does God forbid make America go neanderthal. Once the Internet comes back online (like 10 bloody years latter) I'd be one of if not the first to reestablish a website. LOL

Full disclosure. I do have an USB Zip drive and floopy drive.

Indestructible too . Hard drive, travel drive corrupt but the CD backup still working after 10 years.

 

[John Connor]

Dell Dimension 8200 P4 at 1.8Ghz 2GB RAM with Windows XP PRO SP3 ..

I had a Dell Dimension 4300. $999 MSRP. I upgraded everything I could in that thing except the MOBO. I bought a 3GHz Northwood CPU for it on eBay, it sported a GT6600, then a GT8800. A FSP PSU, NEC brand DVD/RW and CD/RW, A creative Audigy 5.1 sound card, two SATA I HDDs and 4GB of Crucial Ballistix RAM. All paid for with my tax return.

I put that thing through the ringer too. I played FS2004 on it. Call Of Duty Modern Warfare, Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour, Command and Conquer Red Alert, A N64 emulator playing Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, Ghost Recon, I ran it continuously for Folding at Home among all kinds of other crap. I still have its CPU, RAM, Vid card, sound card and PSU.

Did I mention I customized the actual hell out of XP? It was sweet with the Alienware GUI and custom boot screen.

 

[John Connor]

but the CD backup still working after 10 years.

I haven't had much luck with optical drives. They all seem to fail on me withen 4 years. This time I bought an ASUS DVD/RW. Will see how that goes.

Come to think of it. I've read only a handful of manufacturers make optical drives.

I love my optical drives. I can store lots of important data that I know will be safe if you do the right things and the disks all fit nicely in my fireproof safes.

 

[eng2d2]

I haven't had much luck with optical drives. They all seem to fail on me withen 4 years. This time I bought an ASUS DVD/RW. Will see how that goes.

Come to think of it. I've read only a handful of manufacturers make optical drives.

I love my optical drives. I can store lots of important data that I know will be safe if you do the right things and the disks all fit nicely in my fireproof safes.

Usually the media is the problem. If you buy a semi reliable media it will last longer than the new hard drive. Testimonial here --when I accumulated a 500gb of data on a portable hard drive then it tip on its side. All data gone. Lucky I had cd of data back up. I am not relying on hard drive regardless of the convenience. I still have staples Free after rebate CD, dvd from 10 years ago. LOL

Would you like to see my briefcase? Remember that LOL

 

[John Connor]

Usually the media is the problem. If you buy a semi reliable media it will last longer than the new hard drive. Testimonial here --when I accumulated a 500gb of data on a portable hard drive then it tip on its side. All data gone. Lucky I had cd of data back up. I am not relying on hard drive regardless of the convenience. I still have staples Free after rebate CD, dvd from 10 years ago. LOL

Would you like to see my briefcase? Remember that LOL

So does the media cause the optical drive from working? Because that's what has happened. No play, no record, no erase, no nothing. I've used Office Depot media, Sony and Memorex perfectly fine. It's not like the disks changed.

I have Flight Simulator data that's at least 10 years old now.

 

[DigDog]

every time i masturbate it counts as using obsolete technology.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

My 2006 Acura TSX runs just fine, that's probably considered obsolete with how much I see people buying new cars. Everywhere I go and all the people/friends are like "Yeah, my 2013 car is getting too old, I need to get a new one"... What the fuck is wrong with you retards? Derrrrr my machine I bought just hit the bottom of the curve for most depreciation, I better fill that back up to the top to keep it going.

 

[John Connor]

every time i masturbate it counts as using obsolete technology.

Then you're doing it wrong. You have to get more creative. 10 points if a woman helps you, or at least is willing that is. BAHAHAHA!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I totally forgot, I got a dedicated AM/FM/Shortwave radio, I actually bought it new. I realized I did not have one in the house and it's probably something good to have. Also fun to see what kind of stuff I pickup at night. I can even pickup stuff from the states sometimes.

 

[John Connor]

My 2006 Acura TSX runs just fine, that's probably considered obsolete with how much I see people buying new cars. Everywhere I go and all the people/friends are like "Yeah, my 2013 car is getting too old, I need to get a new one"... What the fuck is wrong with you retards? Derrrrr my machine I bought just hit the bottom of the curve for most depreciation, I better fill that back up to the top to keep it going.

When I was in my twenties I wanted this new police scanner in the worst way because the city public safety, in fact the whole damn state went digital. So no traditional analog-based scanner could hear them. Well, being a niche market, the scanner cost an asinine $519.00. I had no job at the time and I was depressed. Then one day my ship came in on of all days Christmas. My mom saw an AD in the paper for contract phone book deliverers. I snatched the paper out of her hands in glee and immediately left a message on the voice mail telling him I was interested. I think I repeated my phone number like three times just to make sure I'd get a call back and secured the job. Well, I did and to make a long story short LOL I was delivering phone books at a trailer park and I couldn't believe all of the new freaking cars! I'm like you live in a freaking mobile home. How on earth can you afford this car?! HAHAHA I guess it goes without saying, never judge a book by it's cover.

 

[John Connor]

I totally forgot, I got a dedicated AM/FM/Shortwave radio, I actually bought it new. I realized I did not have one in the house and it's probably something good to have. Also fun to see what kind of stuff I pickup at night. I can even pickup stuff from the states sometimes.

Tune to 2500 KHz, 5000 KHz, 10000 KHz or at least 15000 KHz. What you will hear is the atomic clock time signal station WWV in a town near me. In fact, you should be able to hear it quite well since you're farther away and how the signal propagates. Now this signal is not to be confused with the one atomic clocks use. They pick up a frequency at 60 KHz. I think it does come from the same station.

Hawaii actually has their own and I've picked that up a few times. Then on my Icom IC-R3 I was able to pick up the Cuban numbers station really well like it was just in Denver. It's all about propagation. In fact, when commercial aircraft go over seas they use shortwave to report their position. And you can pick that up too.

They must have done their research because the BBC sounds an awful lot like this. LOL