Sometimes basics is nice.

[CosmicNoodle]

I have a high-tech PC and a fairly modern phone. But i do like to go back to the old ways sometimes. Like a PC i sometimes use with a 900MHz pentium 2 and 200mb of ram and a 8GB hdd. When we first got the PC it was some serious kit, but as all tech does it aged and became redundant. But I found it, dusted it off and decided i wanted to have a go. IT WORKS!. And i must say that sometimes a pentium and Windows 95 is a much needed and welcome change from the fast ace machines of today.
Do any of you like to go back and look through your old tech to see what you find?

[Cygnus]

The only old tech I go through are consoles/games, I do love to plug in my father's Intellivision, and play some good old Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

[TheMatrix]

I, too, have some old stuff. Two motherboards, in fact, one a Pentium 1, the other an original 486DX(with co-processor expansion slot!).
The latter, unfortunately, lacks the RAM modules and the onboard battery leaked many years ago.
The former still works, and I did post some pictures a while ago, but I can't seem to find the thread. Nevertheless, here it is, in 2011, according to imgur:
http://i.imgur.com/mvmSz.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/saCg0.jpg
Seen there was the Diamond Video card(1MB VRAM, I believe) with the cache module, and the 64MB(?) RAM in DIMMs. Also seen are two 3.5" floppy drives, with all 3 DOS 6.22 boot floppies on top.

http://i.imgur.com/FIhFj.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lcW9h.jpg
And QBasic, for your viewing pleasure.

Still, I prefer my usual computer, as I have no software that runs on DOS as far as I know, except for a bunch of drivers for various network cards.

[CharlieHorse]

i feel like this too sometimes.
i just feel like technology is advancing too fast and it's exhausting.
I just want to live without it for a while.

[CosmicNoodle]

I, too, have some old stuff. Two motherboards, in fact, one a Pentium 1, the other an original 486DX(with co-processor expansion slot!).
The latter, unfortunately, lacks the RAM modules and the onboard battery leaked many years ago.
The former still works, and I did post some pictures a while ago, but I can't seem to find the thread. Nevertheless, here it is, in 2011, according to imgur:
image (http://i.imgur.com/mvmSz.jpg)
image (http://i.imgur.com/saCg0.jpg)
Seen there was the Diamond Video card(1MB VRAM, I believe) with the cache module, and the 64MB(?) RAM in DIMMs. Also seen are two 3.5" floppy drives, with all 3 DOS 6.22 boot floppies on top.

image (http://i.imgur.com/FIhFj.jpg)
image (http://i.imgur.com/lcW9h.jpg)
And QBasic, for your viewing pleasure.

Still, I prefer my usual computer, as I have no software that runs on DOS as far as I know, except for a bunch of drivers for various network cards.

You have no idea how jealous I am right now, You can get old games for DOS from Amazon if you want.

[TheMatrix]

You can get old games for DOS from Amazon if you want.
Yeah, but it's not really worth it, I feel. I can get the clones of them from the openSUSE(or perhaps other distros' repositories as well) for free, sometimes.

[Hypers]

I rarely touch old technology but sometimes i get out my old ipod just to play around and reflect on how terrible life would be without modern technology

[CosmicNoodle]

I rarely touch old technology but sometimes i get out my old ipod just to play around and reflect on how terrible life would be without modern technology

But the iPod is modern teck...

[Hypers]

But the iPod is modern teck...

its like a really really old ipod from half a decade ago.....

[Strelok]

I like basic at times too. I have a 21 year old Apple Mac. 1992 is the printed date on its motherboard :D Runs Mac Os 7.5.3 <3 and I still have a P2 windows machine in storage hehe