Post some of your favorite “old school” hardware and tell us why you liked it. You can also mention why they were discontinued if you happen to know… things like old motherboard specific technologies that didn’t catch on, discontinued cases with a great look, tell the forum what it is and why you like it… There’s a jungle of these things out there and I think folks would find it interesting to hear about them.
I’ll start. One of my favorite old technologies is AMD Hyper-transport. The achievement of getting ram to run at the full CPU speed was very cool. I don’t know what it was replaced with. My guess is something that didn’t tie the hands of CPU capabilities in order to retain that speed, maybe. In any case, it was pretty slick stuff.
I hear ya, I’ve never been so big on those either. But on balance, I do miss the HD lights that went away on the super minimalist laptops these days. Feels like being blind sometimes, lol.
Yeah. Trying to do everything requires a powerful cpu and shit battery life, in addition to every piece of software going to psychopathic lengths to exploit every flaw found in the human mind, turning these things into a portable addiction boxes.
It’s the same concept as “keep work at work and home at home”. Mixing multiple forms of entertainment, communication, function computer software, and commercial exploitation was a perfectly logical mistake that hurts people more than they realize.
I hate touch screens because I have to look at them to do anything. On my sansa clip I can change artists without even looking.
Hah, never thought I’d ever say this in my life. I agree with all so far.
I miss when hardware wasn’t called Gamer something, where you paid good money for good hardware, without an added 20% just for it to be called Gamer crap.
I miss when hardware worked well for more than three years.
What’s required to deal with that is called discipline and critical thinking. Maybe it’s just reached the point where it’s time to say, enough is enough.
I take at least half an hour, every day, where I just exist, takes some getting used to. I don’t think about work, money, family, Todo lists and whatever else might worry or take space, just sit there and let my mind wander in whichever direction it wants. Key is, no entertainment or distractions.
Mainstream listeners just use streaming services and their phones, but they still make standalone music devices. They’re aimed at audiophiles and tend to focus on high-def lossless formats, but they still make 'em with buttons.
Atari 800, or just a large list of computers from the mid 90’s going backwards. Wish I still had my 286, was a pain in the ass getting anything done on that thing.
Don’t miss using a TI-99/4a at all, fun to play with but really hard to get work done with it. If you have most the accessories for it it probably wasn’t but only had the tape drive and a couple basic books. Most basic games you kind of knew how to solve and beat them because you just typed in the whole damn game in the first place.
This thing, that I’ve been owning since it came out. 5 alarms, auto backlight on wrist rotation, minimal time drift, all kind of useful and less useful stuff. Love the mix between the 80s features and the 90s styling.
