What is something considered outdated that you still use??

15-01-2017 04:34AM

I use a portable minidisk player when at work.
People think it's a Sony Walkman it's so old.

deecom · 15-01-2017 05:00AM

An old LG flip phone, very retro...

SecretsOfEarth · 15-01-2017 05:01AM

KungPao wrote: »

Are we talkin full whack new albums or second hand copies of the greatest hits of Another Level from Dealz?

How much is a CD these days anyway?

Honestly, both new and old stuff...I'm too attached!

rebel.ranter · 15-01-2017 05:29AM

L1011 wrote: »

Very unlikely. Easy to support on the same hardware as 4G even and too much random stuff uses it - alarms, monitoring systems for anything and everything etc.

They'll turn it off in the next few years alright. The licensed spectrum currently allocated to 2G can be used more efficiently, even now the operators here are using 3G @ 900MHz and 4G @ 1800MHz reducing the amounts left using 2G to a minimum. The amount of 2G only devices is dwindling away.

The Australians have already pinned their colours to the mast saying they'll do it this year:

https://www.google.ie/amp/www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/vodafone-australia-shutting-down-2g-network-in-2017/?client=safari

http://www.skynews.com.au/business/business/company/2016/11/28/telstra-to-turn-off-2g-network-in-april-2017.html

The larger US and Singapore operators have also decided to shut theirs off this year too.

As for my use of obsolete technology? I still use a Windows XP machine for certain diagnostic jobs. I also use a 6th Generation iPod Nano (which replaced my recalled first gen one in 2011).

B00! · 15-01-2017 06:33AM

a flip phone
video player
cassette player
and I use an old fashioned pen and paper address book instead of putting it all on a phone

I'm old school

judeboy101 · 15-01-2017 07:20AM

The wife

puss · 15-01-2017 08:58AM

The landline!

Pinch Flat · 15-01-2017 09:00AM

charlietheminxx wrote: »

I use an old iPod too! I love it.

Been meaning to pick one of them up.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/252620670793

jojofizzio · 15-01-2017 09:37AM

Patww79 wrote: »

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An iPhone 6s you say peasant??
Mine's a mere 6...Fred Flintsone's favourite model:D

Winterlong · 15-01-2017 09:43AM

A stove top kettle. With a whistle.

railer201 · 15-01-2017 09:48AM

Transistor radio :eek:

thierry14 · 15-01-2017 09:49AM

Boards.ie

railer201 · 15-01-2017 09:52AM

Widdershins wrote: »

I use phones until they die of exhaustion. I use an old Nokia, and like it.

Old Nokias never die - they simply fade away.

screamer · 15-01-2017 09:52AM

A calculator a watch an an actual camera. All replaced by phone functionality but I like to use them.

Advbrd · 15-01-2017 09:54AM

76544567 wrote: »

I use a portable minidisk player when at work.
People think it's a Sony Walkman it's so old.

What's a Sony Walkman?

charlietheminxx · 15-01-2017 09:57AM

Pinch Flat wrote: »

Been meaning to pick one of them up.

http://m.ebay.com/itm/252620670793

Jayzus :O

Mine is the 5th generation. Not quite as old but I think I've been rocking it since 2005.

http://m.ebay.ie/itm/Apple-iPod-Classic-5th-Generation-Black-60GB-with-box-Retro-/112263906720?nav=SEARCH

Not worth quite as much

It's been on every holiday with me, I've brought it to every festival, it's been at the bottom of every handbag and backpack and still works perfectly with a brilliant battery life. Had a small issue with an earphone jack about 2 years ago but got it sorted easily enough.

dr.fuzzenstein · 15-01-2017 09:58AM

I have a 1988 Yamaha AX-500 amp and a Kenwood KD-990 turntable (round the same year) and a big heap of vinyl. It's not getting as much use today as it used to.
In the kitchen I have an ITT Schaub Lorenz Stereo from the early 70's:

But of course I'm no Luddite. The Kenwood and Yamaha were hooked up to various PC's I had over the years and most of my vinyl now sits as mp3 on a network harddrive, shared out via Samba and DLNA from my Raspberry Pi. The mobile phone on top of the ITT (an old Galaxy S3) uses VLC player to access my music (and Internet radio). The great thing is, you would have to invest a lot of money in a modern speaker system that will only sound half as good, because all modern speaker and docking systems (bar the very, very, very expensive stuff) sounds not even a patch (ok, like a cat vomiting in a plastic bucket) on old, proper HiFi stuff.

Oh, and an early 70's Black & Decker drill. It just won't die. I'll never replace it.

Chuchote · 15-01-2017 10:06AM

All those with old iPods, did you get the battery replaced, and where, and how much? I have one but it runs down very fast.

jimmy blevins · 15-01-2017 10:12AM

Still use my iPod in the car, only regret not getting another one before they got pulled from the market.

AndyBoBandy · 15-01-2017 10:16AM

Ipod from 2004
Mouse from 2004 (still going strong)
Minidisc player from late 90's
Dell laptop from 2004, only for a certain task but still performs it admirably.

Advbrd · 15-01-2017 10:25AM

I tend to "upgrade" periodically but find it hard to throw anything out. I still have the following mainly unused items.
Tape deck and hundreds of cassettes.
Video recorder which I think has died recently.
Two ipods, one dead.
A couple of all in one radio/cd player units (replaced by Sonos).
Three DVD players, rarely used and a Blu-Ray player (more or less obsolete due to Netflix and a networked media server).
I have a twenty year old separates hifi system which I use on a daily basis and will probably never get rid of.

Chuchote · 15-01-2017 10:30AM

jimmy blevins wrote: »

Still use my iPod in the car, only regret not getting another one before they got pulled from the market.

They're still on the market http://www.apple.com/ie/ipod/

MrsChipster · 15-01-2017 11:04AM

I have a Netflix subscription on my iPad but I'm watching dvds on a portable DVD player most of the time and all my dvds are in the wrong boxes... argh

Chuchote · 15-01-2017 11:06AM

MrsChipster wrote: »

I have a Netflix subscription on my iPad but I'm watching dvds on a portable DVD player most of the time and all my dvds are in the wrong boxes... argh

Ah… a soothing project for a rainy day, get them alphabetical and in right boxes :P

dr.fuzzenstein · 15-01-2017 11:17AM

Chuchote wrote: »

Ah… a soothing project for a rainy day, get them alphabetical and in right boxes :P

Mine is digitizing the remaining vinyl (over a hundred left), ripping all CD's and DVD's and getting my Pi up and running again.
The vinyl is quite a lot of work.

Chuchote · 15-01-2017 11:21AM

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Mine is digitizing the remaining vinyl (over a hundred left), ripping all CD's and DVD's and getting my Pi up and running again.
The vinyl is quite a lot of work.

Warning: I put all my music and photos onto a hard drive. Tried it recently and it had failed for no reason.