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I know some people still swear by their old iPods or film cameras. For me it's a 15 year old Western Digital external HDD. Do you have any older gadgets or tech that you refuse to let go of?

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[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Still have the first computer I bought with my own money, and it still works. It's an Amiga 500 from 1991. I fire it up and play ancient games with it once in a while, on the ancient 1084s CRT monitor.

Also had one of the super rare A3000T's but unfortunately the battery corroded the motherboard while I had it stored away. I didn't even learn about that problem until researching what had gone wrong with my beautiful Amiga tower. C'est la vie. At least I was able to get an image of the 120MB SCSI hard drive, which I can boot up in an emulator and relive the glory days of 1993.

[–] Num10ck 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

just games? i miss apps like deluxe paint 4, octamed, brilliance!, audiomaster II, and of course the demo scene.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 2 points 1 day ago

I did lots of stuff with them back in the day besides games! Rendered some space ship flybys in Imagine, made custom icons for everything on my workbench, ripped sounds and quotes from my favorite movies, even ran my own BBS for a couple years.

But whenever I turn it on these days it’s just playing a few games and listen to some MODs. It’s just a nostalgia machine now. 😁

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you still have that A3000T? There are people that can repair that...

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce 5 points 2 days ago

Yes I still have it. Repair of the motherboard was attempted but failed. Then I sent pics to the premier repair guy overseas. He said it was too damaged to repair, unfortunately.

I'll probably part it out at some point but I haven't had the will to fully dismantle it yet.