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Old 08-23-2010, 08:59 AM
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Default Whats the oldest outdated technology you still use?

My parents still have a regular VCR, as well as a Laserdisc player thats hooked up and used sometimes.

I still play my original NES system (great when you're drunk and want to play a simple game like Mario Brothers or Metroid). I still have an original Gameboy I play too. My tv in my room is an old 10 year old Zenith tube tv too. laugh.gif

My grandma still uses one of these too

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oldest is a pioneer head unit for my car which is like 6 years old. everything else is pretty new within the last 2 or 3 years.
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^ I still have an old Pioneer tape deck laying around somewhere. laugh.gif

1.gif to the an original NES too, as well as an atari, commodore 64, and game boy. I dont play them though. They're just sitting around in a box somewhere also....probably in the same box where the Pioneer tape deck is. tongue.gif

As far as what I use still to this day, I have a VCR hooked up to one of my tv's. I have a bunch of tapes that I havent yet gotten on DVD, so I'll watch movies once in a great while on it.
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still playing the mix tape in my cassette deck - LC base model ftw
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+2 on the nes and it does get used, I played an beat the original Zelda a few weeks back. Like to pop in the old school classics on occasion... so funny when my daughter starts raggin on the graphics lol. Everything else is within the last 5 years.
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What do you consider technology?

I've got a surround sound systme which is 4 years old
I use my 6 year old XBOX 1 with a chip which plays NES or Atari games.
I have a 11 year old computer which I keep updating
I use a Linux terminal which has been pretty much the same for 20 years.
I use wrenches which teh technology has been around for 100 years
I use Knives which the technology has been around for 1000 years
I have used a stick to beat something before, which I'm pretty sure pre-historic cavemen used.

As for the oldest thing I use on the daily, it's probly my iPhone 3GS. Everything else technology oriented has been upgraded.
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Williams F14 Tomcat pinball machine. 1987 baby!

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Fire.

I have some software on 3.5" floppies. Probably that.
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I have windows 3.1 and dos 6.22 on floppies.


I don't think technology is outdated if you still use it on the daily.
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does the record player i have from the 50's count? we still use it for shits and giggles sometimes. it doesnt sound that bad when its amplified through the media center. and i still have an 8 track out of an old caddy. and the air conditioner in my apartment at school was built in 86



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