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For me its Macromedia FreeHand MX.
Despite having the full CS4 suite to go at FreeHand is still my first choice of software for creating logos. Its just so simple and quick to use.
Paintshop Pro 7.
Update versions are slow and overcomplicated.
I'm still using a 20 year old Land Rover as my everyday transport. 😀
I've got a pair of 40 year old legs that are still going strong....no plans to change them
floppy discs for all the excel spreadsheets the business lives on. The whole office use them, nowadays when i buy a new PC I have to get an external USB drive... I could probably stick the whole lot on a server, and wire the whole lot together, but it's cheap, they work, and they're convenient.
A 1979 Meridian 101/105 Stereo amplifier. It would cost a fortune to replace it with something new that was as good so I am hanging onto it.
It occured to me recently that my Orange P7 has just had its tenth birthday and I have no intention of replacing that either.
floppy discs - Bwah hah hah ha. A smal usb stick will hold a thousand floppies worth of data.
Not me and not recently but I used to smile at people who insisted on using phones from the early 90s just because they had to pay so much for them back then; bricks for sure.
This compute is running windoze 2000 still. It works - however we are now beginning to run in to compatibility issues with stuff as its so old
XP on the home computer. I have windows 7 64 bit on the laptop, which I think is great, but XP is just so easy to use, and everything works with it no problems.
Yeah, what's the maximum capacity of a floppy disc? 250mb? Useless compared to something like this, for example
The bicycle
Will nobody admit to IE6?
Floppy disks reminds me - [b]mini discs[/b]. Still use them cos nothing has replaced them! (Donations of old, (working) and unwanted mini disc kit here please 🙂 )
My home pc runs on xp, I bought it in 2002, still on the original crt monitor, keyboard and speakers.
R reg car so thats near 15 years old? It works alrite still.
My first big purchase from my first job after college, a 1975 Pioneer receiver. It still does the job.
Yeah, what's the maximum capacity of a floppy disc? 250mb?
Well 1.4mb roughly...I still have hundreds and had a search to see what I might use them for; some sort of storage maybe or
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Shame you didn't ask this question a couple of years back. I'm trying to wean myself off old kit, and have been decomissioning stuff lately.
Recently swapped out my trusty 28" 4:3 Sony CRT telly for a nice flatscreen telly. At the same time I mothballed my VCR, Laserdisc player and twin cassette deck. Can't remember when I last used my CD Walkman eiher. Dez - think I've got a recording MD Walkman kicking about, make me a nominal offer and it's yours.
I finally retired my PC last year after being in service since 1998.
Letting go of the Psion 5 hurt. I've still got found a modern equivalent, though the Dell Streak looks promising. Shame it doesn't come with a keyboard (or get updated in a timely manner).
Next to go will be my AV amp I think, time to get something more HD-orientated. That [i]will [/i]hurt, it's fantastic and served me well for years.
What do people [i]do [/i]with all this dead kit? It's all working and probably have some value to someone, seems a shame to toss it all out and I don't want to stick it on Freecycle for a scrote to sell it for drugs.
anonymouse - Member
Will nobody admit to IE6?
Still using IE6 here. But only because it's a work PC using XP and Office 2003.
Some 22 year old Bose 301 speakers - they don't make em like that anymore.
Office 2003 - because we haven't bothered to upgrade yet!
15 year old Morphy Richards radio that cost £12 new - batteries last forever and it's portable. Our two DAB "portables" are hopeless if run without mains power.
IE6 at work
Just thew out a 12 year old micro system that was in the kitchen. I still have a similar aged wharfdale amp and speakers connected to my ipod now in the lounge, but the still sound really good
[i]floppy discs - Bwah hah hah ha. A smal usb stick will hold a thousand floppies worth of data. [/i]
I don't need them to hold massive amounts of data, just a few excel spreadsheets for each client. My staff can work on it, save changes, move it to a difference PC whatever.
It works, and it's cheap, and simple. and if one breaks? so what? It's just got a couple of spreadsheets for one client, I can restore from the last PC that had the data. It's almost foolproof.
Safety razors - see thread on shaving. A modern adjustable one, a 1966 Gillette Superspeed and a 1917 Gillete Travel set.
Inner tubes 😉
Tivo - got one when they first came out in 2001. $ky+ doesn't come close.
25 year old copies of Razzle
This:
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Pace RC200 F8
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Roberts radios - buy them whenever I see them at jumbles for much the same reason as SurfMat.
Gets 5Live and Test Match Special, that'll do me.
It works, and it's cheap, and simple. and if one breaks? so what? It's just got a couple of spreadsheets for one client, I can restore from the last PC that had the data. It's almost foolproof.
Must be a pain finding a PC with a FDD these days - if you have to carry a USB FDD you could streamline a bit.
I used to have to load 12" floppy disks into a System/36 until as recently as 10 years ago. I really really don't miss them one bit.
8 speed, '89 Eunos, '69 Volvo, XP, 70's Thorens, various '90 xt parts, 1923 flat.
NAD 3020 amp - I've had it at least 15 years and it belonged to my brother in law before that.
[i]Must be a pain finding a PC with a FDD these days[/i]
PC world's biggest selling bit of hardware continues to be a USB driven disc drive...Go figure (I read that somewhere)
Sony MP3 walkman. Now 4 years old, but sounds much much better than any iPod. Only 4GB, and you need the god-awful SonicStage software installed to use it, but I still love the quality of sound it throws out through decent headphones.
Trying to wean myself onto the Nexus One for music, with a 16GB MicroSD card installed the capacity is no problem, but it doesn't sound as nice as the Sony.
Always wanted one of those Pace frames.
Inner tubes
Cave man 😉
I have an old laptop with Windows 98 that I still use to configure network equipment. The laptop has a proper serial port that is 100% reliable unlike some of the USB/Serial converters that I have used.
Yeah, I hear that one. For future reference, the FDTI-chipset adapters work well.
A mobile phone that is just a mobile phone
just a few excel spreadsheets for each client.
If they can fit onto a floppy then they aren't proper spreadsheets. 😉
A filofax...
I'm all for retro technology, but I can't think of a single compelling reason to use a USB floppy drive over a USB pendrive. Good grief.
As an aside; I remember a while back in a previous job, on of my then-users rang us to order a new box of floppy disks. I asked, "er, why?" Long story short, she had some arcane piece of software which required backing up weekly and then backup data FTPing to some remote site somewhere. Back in the late Jurassic when this had been implemented, floppy disks had been the obvious solution to bridge the two processes.
Every week, she'd sit there feeding it floppy disks to run the backup, maybe ten disks' worth. Then, she'd feed them back in, one at a time, whilst the FTP script ran and sucked all the data back off again. It took all afternoon, it was her Friday ritual.
Once I'd done boggling, I thought "there has to be a better way." I rewrote all the scripts and changed the application settings so that it ran from the hard disk. The new process involved hitting 'backup' in the application, double-clicking a script to pre-process the data into the format that the FTP program expected, and then kicking off the transfer. The whole process took about two minutes.
Immensely proud, I rang her back to explain what I'd done. She fundementally couldn't grasp that she didn't need the disks any more, because someone had told her they were "important" back in 1927. Every time I explained a step she'd to follow, she replied "right, and do I put my disks in now?"
In the end I gave up, and told her to put a disk in. It never touched it of course, but she seemed happy that she was doing it "right" as long as the disks were involved.
People.
We actually have a Windows 3.11 machine in my office running monthly reports form DataEase Express.
16 year old Toshiba laptop and its running MS DOS 6.22!
Only thing that reliably runs GEM80 emulator.
Oh and we have a variety of DEC PC's with 486sx chips in still running windows 3.1 for workgroups, SCAD & NIR process applications don't need much PC power
It works, and it's cheap, and simple. and if one breaks? so what? It's just got a couple of spreadsheets for one client, I can restore from the last PC that had the data. It's almost foolproof.
Just like a USB memory stick then but shitter.
We actually have a Windows 3.11 machine in my office running monthly reports form DataEase Express.
A colleague asked me to help with a machine the other day that turned out to be a 3.11 box. His actual question was, "what the f--k is this?!" - he'd never seen one before.
Weather station wired up to a BBC B computer.
15 yr old petrol lawnmower that has now become a point of principle to maintain. (it was 2nd hand when I bought it so around 20+ yrs old)
Weather station wired up to a BBC B computer.
You win, close the thread.
😯Only thing that reliably runs GEM80 emulator.
Dare I ask why you need one of those?
This old lass
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20 year old Mission speakers, Denon DCD 560 cd player and Arcam Alpha amp. And all still going strong 😀
His actual question was, "what the f--k is this?!" - he'd never seen one before.
It's like a nesting box for malware/virii. They'll be selling them in garden centers next.
vinnyeh - Member[i]Only thing that reliably runs GEM80 emulator.[/i]
Dare I ask why you need one of those?
Ask away 😉
Without it we can't fault find the code in the GEM80 PLC (programmable logic controller) that controls almost every aspect of our flour mill!
GEM80 was a popular PLC system in the 80's & 90's (other PLC's are made by Allen Bradley, Omron, Siemens etc )
From Wiki
[i]"More recently, PLCs are programmed using application software on personal computers. The computer is connected to the PLC through Ethernet, RS-232, RS-485 or RS-422 cabling. The programming software allows entry and editing of the ladder-style logic. Generally the software provides functions for debugging and troubleshooting the PLC software, for example, by highlighting portions of the logic to show current status during operation or via simulation. The software will upload and download the PLC program, for backup and restoration purposes.
Example
As an example, say a facility needs to store water in a tank. The water is drawn from the tank by another system, as needed, and our example system must manage the water level in the tank.
Using only digital signals, the PLC has two digital inputs from float switches (Low Level and High Level). When the water level is above the switch it closes a contact and passes a signal to an input. The PLC uses a digital output to open and close the inlet valve into the tank.
When the water level drops enough so that the Low Level float switch is off (down), the PLC will open the valve to let more water in. Once the water level rises enough so that the High Level switch is on (up), the PLC will shut the inlet to stop the water from overflowing. This rung is an example of seal-in (latching) logic. The output is sealed in until some condition breaks the circuit."[/i]
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[b][u]Well you did dare to ask[/u][/b]
For me its Macromedia FreeHand MX.Despite having the full CS4 suite to go at FreeHand is still my first choice of software for creating logos. Its just so simple and quick to use.
+1
Same here, great app. Runs really quickly on a modernish puta as well.
I keep finding uneccessary uses for an old beige g3 desktop.
Though none of them actually very old, I only write (and I do a lot of writing as part of my job) with fountain pens.
As a celebration of the recent birth of my daughter, I am going to buy another, likely a vintage Duofold.
Grand dad's early 1900s oil can
1964 Marlin .22
1972 Husquvarna 77 Chainsaw
1992 Raleigh Dyna tech -[upgraded over the years]
1995 LR Defender
1997 LR Discovery
Main computer is 4 years old running XP, so is old in computer terms. Still run Cardfile from my old 3.1 machine, Autosketch6 from way back and MS Office 2000.
BTW nice lathe, Trout
Fuji GX680
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my nokia phone.. 5 years old and still works even though I cant read the buttons as the numbers have worn off.
dont even know what type it is as that has worn off too
I don't need them to hold massive amounts of data, just a few excel spreadsheets for each client. My staff can work on it, save changes, move it to a difference PC whatever.It works, and it's cheap, and simple. and if one breaks? so what? It's just got a couple of spreadsheets for one client, I can restore from the last PC that had the data. It's almost foolproof.
I hope your client spreadsheets don't contain any confidential information 😯
A Pioneer amp & 8ohm Pioneer surround sound speakers provide the sound system for my xbox console, I also use a pair of pioneer headphones to keep noise down when necessary. All Pioneer items were brought by myself in 1984
1994 Merlin XLM and a woodsmans' axe Linn LP12
My granddad's Record engineers vice.
It's probably from the 1940s, possibly the 1930s. After standing for 20 years unused in a damp stable it needed a bit of grease.
Ooh, that reminds me.
I use a vice that I bought from a bike shop that was closing down 40 years ago. It was original equipment for the shop which opened in 1890 something. I also got a spoke threader from them too.
I've got an adjustable wrench/spanner that I inherited from my Granddad.
It's a Billings and Spencer. A quick Google reveals they stopped production in the early Sixties.
the wheel
1996 Mitsubishi TV in the living room, along with a 1990 Parker Knoll Recliner (my pride!).
my penis
I have an amstrad PCW stored in the attic - full working condition with manual, printer na so on. Offers? I am awaiting it being an antique
Anyone use a computer that is older than mine in daily use? Must be more than ten years old. Was running win 98 when I got it but now running 2000.
Thought I had everything as new as possible then remembered a 1972 mini in the garage.
My Cannon A1 Camera, still can't think about changing it for a DSLR.
Only use a 50mm lens and BW film.
Clearing out my grandfathers house after he died, we found loads of old radios. He'd been a radio operator in the Navy during the war and even in his slightly mad old age he could still hold fluent conversations in Morse code. In the little box room and in the shed must have been about 30 radios from 1940's through to 1990's, huge reel to reel tape decks and a Betamax video recorder which was about twice the size of an average microwave and considerably heavier.
Most of it still worked! 🙂
These cards....
[url] http://www.samuri.co.uk/crap/working/working-models.html [/url]
There's a fairly cool animated gif linked at the bottom.
As filthy, im still using an old nokia phone. I can bounce it off the walls and like Marge's butt, it just wont quit.
An original PS1 and a Mega drive. I even have a commodore 64 GS (games system) at home too 🙂
Anyone use a computer that is older than mine in daily use? Must be more than ten years old. Was running win 98 when I got it but now running 2000.
Oh yes, a 17 year old pc running Windows 3.1, I use it for the skills testing software I bought back then, It was used last week.
Couple of the PC's in the office run off Win 95 I think...
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality ]Augmented reality[/url], just soooooooooooooooo last year!
Actually saw it for the first time last week and was well impressed.
My little Emco lathe/mill is about as old as my dad, but it's ideal for my limited purposes and shows no signs of wearing out... Looked around and it looks like some newer lathes could be better but there's nothing as, well, lovable 😆 It's like a little toy that just happens to cut metal.
Also got a very nice Thor 2-faced hammer which is absolutely black with age, I can't date it exactly but my grandad stole it from the RAF after the war (along with about a thousand other tools, every one of which is now broken or lost other than the hammer) You can still buy the exact same hammer today, which I like. Hammer technology has not moved on!
The pen and paper, I'd much rather write stuff down than type it into a bloody computer.
I normally don't like to keep old crap, but I'd be quite upset if I lost my flux capacitor
Presumably because you wouldn't be able to go back and get it?