[Closed] Orsum old stuff

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Olympus XA. Manual focus, aperture priority, pocket size. Terrible battery life...

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The spreadsheet was actually quite good.

I had all my contacts on mine, the back up battery went flat and then accidentally knocked the main battery off the back and lost them all.

LOL. I had one of those walkmans. it was one of a long succession of the things.
i remember mine coming off my belt as i flogged my raleigh montage along the road to some banging tune ( zz top or something 😀 ). the music suddenly stopped, and i looked down to see it bouncing along the road somewhere under my bottom bracket. i picked it up, plugged the phones back in, hit play, and off we went again. 😀

Indestructible:

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Ah, the Model M. Fine piece of engineering.

Another Psion lover here - I had the 5. Brilliant design, modern tablets could learn something from it.

There is no spoon....
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Palm Pilot.
Still have mine in the "gubbins" drawer, due to sentimentality value.

That 7110 - you seem to be confusing "awesome" with "gimmicky shit."

(-:

Gimmicky shit = awesome in my book.

🙂

It certainly felt awesome at the time.
I agree that it wasn't the pinnacle of mobile phone perfection however.

As far as I am concerned that title belongs to the 8210.

After that, mobiles just got unneccessarily larger and more complex.

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I agree that it wasn't the pinnacle of mobile phone perfection however.

Because that was the Nokia 6310i.

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Great thread. My stereo and walkman back from when I was in secondary school:

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I agree that it wasn't the pinnacle of mobile phone perfection however.

As far as I am concerned that title belongs to the 8210.

I preferred it's successor, the 8310, though it looked like crap. They did a "business" edition though, the 6510.

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... which I owned. Agreed on the 6310i though, one of the greatest phones ever. Could get signal on the moon.

^ I'm still using one of those JVC hi-fi's!

How about these in the 1970s
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Also, found this image recently on one of those ‘photos of the week’ sites
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We still have an 8310 as an emergency spare. SIM card won't fit it anymore though

Also, found this image recently on one of those ‘photos of the week’ sites

You need to add this to the picture as well.

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Also, found this image recently on one of those ‘photos of the week’ sites

Another Psion lover here - I had the 5. Brilliant design, modern tablets could learn something from it.

+1

We still have an 8310 as an emergency spare. SIM card won't fit it anymore though

you can get adapters for pence.

I agree that it wasn't the pinnacle of mobile phone perfection however.

Because that was the Nokia 6310i.

so much very this.

Now, if we're talking calculators...

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Still got mine, though. I occasionally wear it for about a week, until the batteries die again. But it can do calculations [i]on time itself![/i]

I got a Minitel when I lived in France, what a thrill that was.

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not so dim or distant, but still orsum

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10 yrs young and still works well, silly sock puppet cover has kept it pristine (even though it's down 1000's of miles in a camelbak) battery life is around 24 hrs. Substance over style!

I still have a Sony Professional Walkman.

Oh and a turntable 😉

I was the first kid on my street to have a 59-6-1.5T

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That rocks!

Another Psion 3A owner, I bought one back in 1995 along with the matching tiny printer when i returned to college to do Mech/Electronic engineering as i thought it would be handy, it was very handy indeed as i mostly played the golf game whilst in boring lessons 😀 , seeing as the course was mostly maths and thermodynamics it saw a lot of use.

I also had a really tiny sony cassette walkman in the early 90's which was barely bigger than a cassette box, it had dolby b, autoreverse and a direct drive motor but i can't remember the model number, also had a pair of Koss Porta-Pro headphones to go with it - the combination was just awesome at the time and a wonder of engineering - wish i still had it for nostalgia reasons.

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My first SLR was a Zenit 11 and I wanted this kit so badly.

Had both the 7110 and 6130i, had the 7110 not been dual band I would have got another after mine was stolen (was travelling lots at the time). Pretty sure I was rocking a 6310i when I met my missus almost ten years ago, was sick of the weak modern ones.

We still have a 3330 "punishment brick" for if we break a phone.

Technics 1210 MkII

Was orsum then and still orsum now.

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I *loved* this thing. Used to take it on Camping Club weekends and actually carry it around on my shoulder. Dad wasn't best pleased as it took six mahoosive batteries, at not inconsiderable expense.

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Balls, I was going to say Technics 1210 Mk. 2, but got beaten to it.

They are/were/will be the best turntables. FACT. (and not a jamba-fact either, a true, proper fact)

Somafunk's post reminds me of another device in the gubbins drawer:
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Another Psion 3 owner here, I distinctly remember doing a part dissertation on it (for a course I was on) plugging it into the printer network and the Uni IT Bod going "wow! That's some piece of kit"
Loved the spreadsheet, word was a little tricky IIRC but functioned well.

I know someone who still uses his occasionally for network protocol something or other..

Utterly brilliant and very ahead of its time.

Calculator, the one and only - still in use

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My tiny lathe- a Unimat SL1000 from about 1960. Mine has blown up its motor at some point and has a sewing machine motor bodged on, complete with speed pedal. It's a ridiculous little thing but I love it, and it's saved quite a few late night repairs and rebuilds.

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My first SLR was a Zenit 11 and I wanted this kit so badly.

I had a Novaflex on my old Nikon FM and FE for shooting sport. They were great at certain things but had downsides, running to catch a plane and trying to get through check in the security people were rather keen to see what the X-ray showed that looked like a bazooka body with a shoulder stock. Only just made the plane...

Nicer than a Walkman - Panasonic RQS

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I love my one of these, over 20 odd years of almost daily usage. Lugged around various Uni halls and rented accommodation and all without missing a beat.

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I love my one of these, over 20 odd years of almost daily usage. Lugged around various Uni halls and rented accommodation and all without missing a beat.

I've got one of those in daily use too. Even my pc is 10 years old.

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My father in law still uses one like this. Reverse Polish Notation!

Oh, and I have one of these:

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Reverse Polish Notation!

At college, we called that "egdelP."

At college, we called that "egdelP."

Doogy Rev.

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I didn't have a Sinclair Spectrum but I do have (still in the cupboard at home!) an Oric 48k like this....

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Reverse Polish Notation

Once you get used to it, it is difficult to use any other type of calculator.

Lister JP3. Bomb proof, and not even hard to start when in good nick.

Oh and for turntables:
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Doogy Rev.

Gronda gronda.

If we're going down the tool route, I just picked up a Startrite Mercury Mk2 yesterday, only thing it needs are new top cover bumpers, a proper hinge pin and a plate to fill in where the serial number was taken off for whatever reason. Otherwise it's fine to use immediately though I'll probably clean it up properly if I get round to it.

I tend not to buy crap, I'd rather not do the job than a bad job.

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The Marantz player still has a following in modifier circles. This is (the same as)my Micromega player,not in much use these days unfortunately.

I also had a really tiny sony cassette walkman in the early 90's which was barely bigger than a cassette box,

Sony Walkman WM10?

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The Marantz player still has a following in modifier circles.

How/why does one modify a CD player? Genuinely interested!

Asteroids

(the retro hotel I was skiing in last year, had one. Blast from the 80s!!)

My old technical compasses set from college - still sat on my desk.

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Anyone for an amstrad PCW? I have one in my attic carefully stored for when it becomes collectable

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a selection of [s]junk[/s] orsum stuff within easy reach...
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Only the music centre is in regular use (bluetooth enabled), but everything apart from the Sharp radio still works, just not very useful! 🙂

@dragon: my Marantz CD65SE is still going strong too. The drawer is a bit sticky but otherwise fine.

RPN calculators always win because no one ever 'borrows' them

The mighty Linn LP12. Mine's still going strong and still sounds as good as CD

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>Asteroids
I had that, ass grapes from space :/

>The drawer is a bit sticky but otherwise fine.
Re-grease the rails for the drawer?

>V8_shin_print
What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?

RE Amstrad:

What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?

It's a Libretto. I always wanted one.

Anyone else had one of these?

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Got one of these tucked away somewhere.

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6gb of MP3 goodness way before Apple turned up and did it properly. The hard drive was nearly as noisy as the music. Took about a month to rip all my CDs and install them. Then it crashed and lost the lot.

This was a little less orsum
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Still use HP15C - have done for 30 years, Feels weird going back to normal calc

OK not techie but lets not forget slide rules and log tables

Mention of Asteroids reminded of owning one of these...

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Seemed amazing at the time.

How/why does one modify a CD player? Genuinely interested!

Loads of info in this thread about guys keeping old stuff goign and fitting improved components. AFAIK there is a scene also.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=246353&start=10

The heroic Sony ICF-SW100.
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Mine is on my desk here. Ive been thinking of selling it on since I don't use it for SW BBCWS anymore.

And wot no Laserdisc?
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And for those who dont know the scale, that thing is the size of a 72 LP!

I've never even heard of Vectrex.
Was it pre 'Grandstand'?

The Xbox / PlayStations grandad......

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There is no spoon....

And strangely, not the inspiration for my username either.

The heroic Sony ICF-SW100.

My father has a very well travelled one! Great piece of kit.

I still have an old Sony Walkman that had a rechargeable battery and retractable headphones - it was a beautiful piece of kit - really minimalistic in styling. I think it cost me something like £80 back in 1990.

Can't find a damn pic of it online though.

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What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?

It's a Libretto. I always wanted one.

Correct, the Libretto 70CT to be exact. 🙂

Made by Toshiba, Pentium 1, 32 mb ram, 1.6gb hard drive, Windows 95. The mouse is brilliant, there's a thumb pad to the right of the screen and the buttons are on the back.

I even have adapters for it - ethernet, wifi, floppy drive and docking station!

I've never even heard of Vectrex.

Highly sought after these days, if you've still got one it'll easily fetch a couple of hundred quid. True vector display (like an oscilloscope), only monochrome but some games came with transparent coloured overlays to colour in areas of the screen.

And wot no Laserdisc?

Still have mine, along with the [url= http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1997-Star-Wars-Trilogy-Special-Edition-Laserdisc-PAL-Edition-/272556013526 ]Star Wars trilogy box set[/url] (and a bunch of others).