I've still got......

[Icey101]

a 17inch CRT screen for my XP desktop PC


edit: your suppose to say what "you have still got"

 

[fraublugher]

Haha my athlon just went crosseyed

 

[hover]

Dude, that's not even retro, that's just sad.

 

[tastybasslines]

Haha my athlon just went crosseyed

My first build was an Athlon. Late 2001/Early 2002

1.6 Athlon
64MB Video Card
512K Ram, upgraded a few years later to 1.5 at a cost of $190.
20GB IBM HD

It lasted for 10 years...I retired the comp in 2011 and have the HD in an external enclosure, it is still working.

 

[fdeck]

... Visual Basic 5 from 1997.

 

[Johnny Crab]

Looking at a CRT here waiting for it to pop so I've got a REAL reason to replace it.

 

[BenBL]

My family finally replaced one of the monitors we've had for as long as I can remember. There is whole lot more space on the computer desk now.

 

[MJ5150]

Wow, you guys are OG. I work with some people like this. I should put you in touch with them. Not me though.

-Mike

 

[BenBL]

Wow, you guys are OG. I work with some people like this. I should put you in touch with them. Not me though.

-Mike

It's only the monitors that are old at my house, the computers themselves are quite new here.

 

[1958Bassman]

The hard drive in my computer that was built around Jan 15, 2000 just cacked.

Call me Al Bundy, but I still have a Betamax. I don't use it, but it's still here. I'm holding out on selling it until I see them going for a grand.

 

[neo 7]

The same toothbrush I had in 6th grade.

 

[Dominic D]

I still use an 80's IBM Model M keyboard. It's noisy as hell and I love it! I had to get a PS/2 to USB adaptor so I can keep using it with my newest computer. Totally worth it.

 

[fdeck]

Wow, you guys are OG. I work with some people like this. I should put you in touch with them. Not me though.

-Mike

The deal for me is that nobody ever sees what tools I use. They only see results. And I deliver results.

When a tool is obsolete, I ditch it. But... we all know that technologies get "updated" more often than they need to be, and that those updates aren't always beneficial to us. Often, the earlier, simpler versions of tools are the best.

My strategy is to learn a tool and then stick with it until something radically better comes along.

 

[thewildest]

.. the same eye size since I was born (as every other human). None of the atoms I was born with are today part of me though...

 

[john turner]

a bootable apple ][e purchased new in 1983 upon which i am still able to play a myriad of games, from 30 year old 5.25" disks, that still work.

like
wizardry 1
ultima 3
tai pan
aztex
karateka.

as well as program in ucsd pascal. wrote my first double-linked list in 10th grade on this machine.


/thread.

(then again, i'm posting this on a sager np9570 desktop replacement. booyah!)

 

[john turner]

My strategy is to learn a tool and then stick with it until something radically better comes along.

+1. another benefit of sticking with what works is that there's more time to learn a breadth of technologies, while other folks with "complexes" keep relearning the wheel.

case in point, i still use the same macromedia fireworks install for all my image editing and icon-making needs that i've been using for ~10 years. i can crank out good looking gui primative icons (like image buttons) or edit a photograph in about 10 minutes.

 

[SquierJazz72]

I've still got an old Playstation 2 kicking around, with mostly PS-1 games for it. Before I got rid of my old car(and I mean that in two ways) I still had music on.....................cassette tapes.

 

[two fingers]

I still have a '99 Tahoe with 213,000+ miles on it. Daily driver. Just got back from a 3 hour road trip on it.

As for technology. I couldn't agree more with some earlier posts. OS get "updated" for the purpose of SALES not improvement. To me, XP is better in many ways that 7 or 8. In fact, if you don't have a touch screen, to me 8 is useless. I could have "upgraded" from 7 for free and chose not to. Of course, these days I'm scoping out which Linux I will eventually land on for most things anyway. But even in the Linux world I am leaning towards a couple of older releases.

 

[MazingerZ]

I still have copies of my old High school computer programs on 5 1/4 ince floppy disks. And I do have an 8086 XT PC somewhere in the attic.

 

[curbowkid]

Ive got



Two ticket to paridise....