Obsolete: how much old tech do you have

[IvyKing]

I still have my HP45 calculator, which gets turned on a couple of times a year. Reading about the HP35 in the March (?) 1972 issue of Popular Electronics made me think that personal computers would be coming soon.

 

[Squidiey]

I was trouble shooting some internet stuff today, and at some point went through boxes of old tech looking for stuff.

It made realize that over the last twenty years I have spent frightening amounts of money on bits and pieces that are now obsolete.

Dozens of external HDD's, the USB ones still usable but the Firewire ones are paper weights at this point. Tons of cables, too. 10-100Mbps ethernet switches, a MoCA extender (remember those?).

It all cost money, a lot of money. But it all pales in comparison to the amount of money I have spent on now obsolete Apple products.


Ah, the price we pay for the convenience of progress. Or the progress of convenience, not sure.


How much old tech do you have? Anybody still rocking SCSI out there?

I still have a DVI port for my old PC I used to play Solitaire and Mine Sweeper on