Obsolete: how much old tech do you have

[mangoman]

I was trouble shooting some internet stuff today, and at some point went through boxes of old tech looking for stuff.

It made realize that over the last twenty years I have spent frightening amounts of money on bits and pieces that are now obsolete.

Dozens of external HDD's, the USB ones still usable but the Firewire ones are paper weights at this point. Tons of cables, too. 10-100Mbps ethernet switches, a MoCA extender (remember those?).

It all cost money, a lot of money. But it all pales in comparison to the amount of money I have spent on now obsolete Apple products.


Ah, the price we pay for the convenience of progress. Or the progress of convenience, not sure.


How much old tech do you have? Anybody still rocking SCSI out there?

I used to have boxes of stuff. So I made a human-sized totem pole from it, all the tech mounted to a steel pole and base. A fine art piece that spoke to our idolization of tech.

 

[JamesMay82]

I’m glad to see we are all in the boat.. I have the following and never use it but maybe once every year or 2 I fire up for some nostalgia

Xbox 360
2008 24 inch imac
2010 27 inch imac
2014 26 inch imac

I had some laptops but they always broke so I have just thrown them