Swamphen:

Not nearly as old as some of the antiques listed here

K8Toledo:

 

Idk why people bother with USB flatbed scanners, they're clunky, archaic and USB scanning/printing is not the way to go anyway.

 

For those documents/situations where they still expect you to print out a 10/20 page document, initial every page, put your name on the first and then sign the last (perhaps with a witness) and they don't allow things to be done with digitally signing a PDF - it's difficult to beat the convenience of having a scanner that can scan the document.  I know many places will accept a photo rather than a scan, but it becomes unwieldy to combine multiple photos together for a single document - particularly if needed for legal or administrative purposes.

As someone who predominately works from home and generally operates digitally, I really hate those occasions where someone throws a "please print this document, sign it, and send it back" at me.  It seems so incredibly wasteful to physically print something so you can get a digital image of it.

Canuckabroad: it's difficult to beat the convenience of having a scanner that can scan the document.  I know many places will accept a photo rather than a scan, but it becomes unwieldy to combine multiple photos together for a single document - particularly if needed for legal or administrative purposes.

Swamphen:

 

Not nearly as old as some of the antiques listed here, but I still use my Sony Reader (circa 2011) almost every day. I'm sure the more modern kindles and kobos are fine, but I love my chunky physical buttons and the form factor, and haven't found anything that seems to similar. The software's long gone (no wifi anyways), but Calibre still works.

 

I still use my original kindle with a keyboard and nice buttons, but the lack of backlight means that without turning the light on, I can't read it in bed in the middle of the night without waking my wife up.

I recently splashed out on the paperwhite signature edition, and it is absolutely lovely. The side lighting is subtle enough (and now with warm light option) that it doesn't disturb anyone else.

neb:

 

If you've got an Android phone try TurboScan, that turns your phone into a scanner with scan adjustment options and combines multiple scans into a PDF.

That sounds really good. I have an iPhone and checked - there’s an iOS TurboScan app too - just $10 once-only after a free trial.

eracode:

neb:

 

If you've got an Android phone try TurboScan, that turns your phone into a scanner with scan adjustment options and combines multiple scans into a PDF.

 

That sounds really good. I have an iPhone and checked - there’s an iOS TurboScan app too - just $10 once-only after a free trial.

I have an original WD Live from circa 2010 hooked up to a spare TV. 

It only gets occasional use nowadays - my DLNA server is long done, and as a daily media driver it has been supplanted by Jellyfin, Rokus and Chromecasts. But it's as robust as heck, and the drive connected to it has a bunch of home videos accumulated over the years that it plays flawlessly.

I am still using an ancient AT tower case from the 1990s.  It totally confused the repair guy at PB Tech PN when he tried to fire up the faulty motherboard it had in it.  He ignored my instructions (clearly not understanding the problem at all) and just pushed the power button to turn it on.  In an AT case, the power switch is not momentary, it is press-to-make, press-to-break.  So the power came on and then promptly went off again, and he tried to tell me that the power supply was the problem.  It took some considerable explaining before he finally got it.

Does it count if I "Grandads Axe'd" my PC?

At no point have I replaced it entirely but only ever piece by piece over probably two decades.  So a number of motherboards, CPU's, drives, RAM and video card upgrades later, it finally got a case upgrade.  Technically it's still the same PC right?

geoffwnz:

 

Does it count if I "Grandads Axe'd" my PC?

 

At no point have I replaced it entirely but only ever piece by piece over probably two decades.  So a number of motherboards, CPU's, drives, RAM and video card upgrades later, it finally got a case upgrade.  Technically it's still the same PC right?

 

I think it's less "Grandad's Axe" and more "The Chip of PCus".

geoffwnz:

Does it count if I "Grandads Axe'd" my PC?

1994 IBM Model M, we clack on. 

SHARP PC-1500A w/Plotter