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MadEngineer

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#3461996 16-Feb-2026 21:36

I have a laptop with a 7th gen intel running Linux and the same gen in a desktop pc running windows 11 (it installed without complaint) as a nas

I use a dvd player under my tv to play cds in 5.1. Wish I had an HDCD player.

Two ICE cars. I mean things that burn petrol are obsolete, no?

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#3462052 16-Feb-2026 23:05

I have a pair of Pye Isotronic speakers from the 1970s which are older than me, they still sound great!

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#3462085 17-Feb-2026 08:31

I _am_ old and obsolete equipment (source: Mrs Aqua)

Seriously, though. Atari 2600 and an original speak and spell. Both still work flawlessly. Although, the Atari looks terrible on a modern TV.

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#3462102 17-Feb-2026 09:22

Running a couple of old original Raspberry PIs as music streamers with picoreplayer.

Also have a Gigabyte Brix that is 10+ years old as a front end for mythtv that is still great for upto 1080p playback.

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#3462140 17-Feb-2026 10:28

MikeAqua:

I _am_ old and obsolete equipment (source: Mrs Aqua)

Seriously, though. Atari 2600 and an original speak and spell. Both still work flawlessly. Although, the Atari looks terrible on a modern TV.

There are a couple of ways to get decent video out. The one that I have ordered and is sitting waiting for time over winter is a board that goes under the video chip and outputs something called lumacode that my scaler can then deal with to make a nice HDMI signal from.

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#3470282 14-Mar-2026 20:17

When I was in IT , there were horrors of old equipment . :-)

When others were on Win10 ...

one customer was still on DOS on his POS PC's. Untill the software support for the program he used refused to help anymore . Im surprised they kept supporting it for so long . He got a good long run from that old software .
Another customer used a PC Direct Win95 PC to run the security software for a multistory apartment building . Computer died & all the swipe locks on apartment doors defaulted to unlock .

Alot of the stuff I own is 25-30 years old. Washing machine, lawnmower , weedeater , chainsaw, fridge , stereo/hifi gear , tools .
I doubt the new stuff will last that long .

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#3470335 14-Mar-2026 21:12

My mum went through several kettles over a period of 5 years or so, all purchased from the warehouse. She had collected all the receipts as each return resulted in another receipt being stapled to the list. Somewhat understandably they were a bit hesitant to replace the last one saying that it must be her fault that she had gone through so many of them, most of them lasting almost exactly 12 months. She had to point out that a few of them only lasted a few months and one was even returned when she was in a queue of other people returning the same model.

We got her a new one from briscoes the other week for when her last warehouse kettle dies.

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#3470351 14-Mar-2026 22:53

I have a pair of Roberts SS-80 II speakers and they were manufactured in NZ. they were inherited from my grandfather.

I also have a vintage rega planar 3 turntable from the 80s. the tonearm was replaced late 1998 by my grandfather and I replaced the belt and cartridge. It still goes very well today for a fully manual turntable that takes 33 and 45 rpm records.

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