I've still got......

[LiquidMidnight]

I still have my NES and SNES. I may even still have my Atari lying around too. Oh, and I'm also still using a CRT monitor.

 

[oniman7]

I've still got the gameboy color and pokemon game (along with trading cards) my parents and grandparents got for me when I was 4 years old.

 

[LiquidMidnight]

I think I have one of those Tiger handheld games sitting around somewhere too. It was a bowling game.

 

[Jazz Ad]

A perfectly working Game&Watch Snoopy Tennis from 1982. My son plays it.
A kettle that was a wedding gift to my great grandma, makes awesome potatoes.

 

[1958Bassman]

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When a tool is obsolete, I ditch it.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.

Exactly my idea. I think the mentality of replacing things that work for the sake of having something new is incredibly wasteful and deplorable.

It's also the reason I still have my Beta machine- VHS would never have been better, anyway. I don't use it, but if I need it, it's here.

 

[GK Growl]

I still have and use this phone:

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[BenBL]

I still have and use this phone:

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I'm still using a razor phone as my replacement for my other dumb phone

 

[Sneakypete]

I still have the the leather cowboy gun belt and holster I was given as a kid about 55 years ago! Sadly, the gun and all the little wooden bullets have all long since vanished and there's no part of my body that it fits around anymore. Well, maybe around my head.

 

[dave64o]

I still have a CRT monitor on my desk at work.

The really sad part? I'm in an IT organization.

 

[Richland123]

a 17inch CRT screen for my XP desktop PC


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

ME TOO! However, the color has been going bad and I recently bought an HP LED High Definition 21" Flat Screen and have to install it. I don't have space on my desk for anything larger.

 

[MatticusMania]

last weekend on my mind.

 

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I think the mentality of replacing things that work for the sake of having something new is incredibly wasteful and deplorable.

Yeah...for the most part I'd be inclined to agree, but I am not a frequent replacer, my opinion, especially on crt's, is that it's incredibly MORE wasteful and deplorable...the amount of energy you're wasting using that outdated technology.

I am no early adopter by any means, and the laptop I am typing on is 6+ years old... I'm just suggesting that sometimes it's ok to concede to better tech.

 

[blastoff99]

I've still got...

... a MiniDisc player! Didn't realize it was still in my possession. The Goodwill gets it tomorrow.

 

[cfsporn]

My mother owns the first Toshiba laptop to ever be imported into America.

As for tech relics that I own:
Apple Newton 100
Macintosh Classic
NES (Got this one in a thrift store with a bunch of games and accessories for $5)
SNES (Found in the same thrift shop as the NES, this one was still in the box, with all packing material. Only $10)
A couple of Dells that shipped with Win2K. Now running Linux.

I used to own a lot more vintage computers, but most of them are long gone.

No CRTs in my house, but I do have a projector from 1999. Still works beautifully.

 

[Avalon]

I've still got my Kodak instant film camera that I bought in maybe 1977?? It's in the original box with the styrofoam packaging. It was a big goofy looking thing marketed as "The Handle". It used the instamatic "flip flash" bulb bars and you had to crank the photo out of the camera after you took the picture. Polaroid successfully sued Kodak and forced them out of the business, so you can't buy film for them since probably 1979 or so.

 

[sandmangeck]

... Visual Basic 5 from 1997.

Qbasic here.

 

[TOOL460002]

I still have the first flat screen I bought at Costco in 2002. I run two monitors, so it's a nice secondary screen (Pro Tools on the main screen, which is wide and Reason on the older, square one). All the pixels still work, no burn in. It's some generic brand, but it has lasted forever.

 

[Avalon]

I have my first computer purchase - a Pentium III, 933Mhz (started with 500Mhz) running Windows 2000, that I bought in 2000. It had Win 98 when I bought it. I eventually had to upgrade to Win2K so that I could password protect it from my kids.

I just disconnected it last year, but I have it sitting in my den area - just in case... we'd been using it for internet and email. It couldn't open any YouTube videos, etc..., but it still did pretty well with most things. My second machine, I built it about 2 years ago, is running Windows XP.

Yea, I figured I could handle a new OS.

 

[colcifer]

What version of Reason?

 

[FilterFunk]

I bought a new laptop last year. I actually miss the screen on my old 2003 desktop Dell Dimension 2400 CRT monitor. It was obviously not as sharp as the Inspiron screen I have now, but I kind of liked the warmth of it. Plus, I experienced no eye strain, and the image looked the same no matter the angle. With the laptop screen, if I lean back in my seat or look at it from a side angle, the brightness and color look very different, especially if the image is dark. Sometimes it looks like a film negative! And, unlike the old monitor, I absolutely have to have the light from a lamp offset the laptop screen when I'm working in dark conditions; I didn't need it with the CRT monitor. Overall, the laptop is a huge improvement over the old computer, but I'm still not completely comfortable with the new screen. But then again I'm old, so...

BTW, I still have my Sequential Circuits Six-Trak synth (I like to call it the Prophet 5's little brother) I bought in 1986.