The oldest tech you still use

[Meech17]

Nothing impressive, but like many of you I have an old(er) set of speakers.

Back in 2005-2006ish my mother and brother, who were huge EverQuest addicts, but fallen off the game after Planes of Power, discovered that EQ2 had come out and wanted to get into it. Discovering our home computer couldn't hack it anymore, my mom took out a new credit card and purchased two, sparkling new Dell Pentium 4 computers. I got the hand-me-down home computer which was pretty game changing as a seventh or eighth grader. (Some might argue detrimental)

Regardless, I still have the set of two speakers+subwoofer that came with my mom's computer and use it on my own PC today. They don't get much use, because I generally use headphones, but occasionally.

I had the computer itself for a long time too.. Hoping to oneday repurpose it into an emulation machine, or home theater PC or something.. But gave up on that after having to move with it a few times. Up until I moved in with my girlfriend a few years ago, I used a dead hard drive from that same PC as a drink coaster on my desk. Sometimes you have to let go of fun things like that to appease the women in your life, however.

 

[payn]

Nothing impressive, but like many of you I have an old(er) set of speakers.

Back in 2005-2006ish my mother and brother, who were huge EverQuest addicts, but fallen off the game after Planes of Power, discovered that EQ2 had come out and wanted to get into it. Discovering our home computer couldn't hack it anymore, my mom took out a new credit card and purchased two, sparkling new Dell Pentium 4 computers. I got the hand-me-down home computer which was pretty game changing as a seventh or eighth grader. (Some might argue detrimental)

Regardless, I still have the set of two speakers+subwoofer that came with my mom's computer and use it on my own PC today. They don't get much use, because I generally use headphones, but occasionally.

I had the computer itself for a long time too.. Hoping to oneday repurpose it into an emulation machine, or home theater PC or something.. But gave up on that after having to move with it a few times. Up until I moved in with my girlfriend a few years ago, I used a dead hard drive from that same PC as a drink coaster on my desk. Sometimes you have to let go of fun things like that to appease the women in your life, however.

 

[Meech17]

The future is now, grandpa.

 

[payn]

The future is now, grandpa.

Im aware everytime you post

It is good to have some youngblood here at EN World.

 

[Meech17]

Im aware everytime you post

It is good to have some youngblood here at EN World.

I fear for the future. I'll be 34 this year. We just got an intern at work who's still in college and talking to him makes me feel like I'm turning 74.

 

[Ryujin]

I fear for the future. I'll be 34 this year. We just got an intern at work who's still in college and talking to him makes me feel like I'm turning 74.

I'm going to be 63 in a few months and when I talk to most university students it's the opposite. It makes me feel like they're 12.

 

[payn]

I fear for the future. I'll be 34 this year. We just got an intern at work who's still in college and talking to him makes me feel like I'm turning 74.

Hi, welcome.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Not sure how many st fighters I've got.

Street Fighter 2 and Skyrim are in a race for the highest amount of re-releases.

I'm going to be 63 in a few months and when I talk to most university students it's the opposite. It makes me feel like they're 12.

I work for a university, and when I'm on campus, freshmen look like they're 12 now.

 

[Ryujin]

I work for a university, and when I'm on campus, freshmen look like they're 12 now.

Same. And same.

 

[Willie the Duck]

The criteria I am using is complex machinery or electronics. Also nothing that was purchased as a piece of old tech. Mostly because one of us having a 150 year old bowl or screwdriver or bought an old Atari because you wanted to try retrogaming doesn't tell us much beyond that (what any of us using an iPod or a cassette player tells us, I guess I don't know either, but it still seems like a more interesting comparison).

Among regularly used (and not, like, my house), I think the oldest is some Fleetwood speakers my dad got when he left the army in '72. Of tech I first got when it was the state of the art or state of the market, I still have a CD player in my stereo cabinet from '94 that gets use whenever I pick up a CD from a local band.

If retro gaming counts im still regularly playing Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri. It was released 1999.

Star Wars Empire at War. Currently playing atm. 20 years old. Its been modded.

Can you still get the Alpha Centauri mods? If I were to pick it up again, I'd want at very least a patch so the Alien Crossfire would include both alien factions in a random opposition game.

Of my own gaming, I am now regularly scratching my dungeon-crawling itch with the Unity port of Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall. I've also taught my nephew the joy of Scorched Earth.