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I take apart old alarm clocks and radios and I'm gonna do something with the excess battery acid I've collected in a waste beaker someday
What old tech do you still enjoy? - Old shit you still play around with
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- 11 de Sep, 2014
Since I sold my Record collection for a move (they were too heavy and melt on the trip), I got some CDs and a nice CD player unit for Hifi setup. Sounds really good and nice to have a physical format of music you enjoy.
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- 1 de Sep, 2020
Your collection sounds really great and I'm jealous. It sounds like nerd heaven. I hope you're doing bi-yearly checkups on your storage unit. The amount of times I've heard "my collection of things I put in deep storage got ruined by bugs and water" is too high.(sigh) I used to have a Sony Trinitron 28" amazing flatscreen looking very similar to your unit that I had a multi-switcher hooked up to on the composite and S-video/audio feeds to it, and ran: An older PC as media centre for movies and music (and emulation) as well as a Dreamcast, a Saturn, a PS2 and a Wii changable at the click of a button. My girls upstairs got my SNES and Genesis respectively on smaller CRTs.
Then the bitch divorced me, house was sold and the old CRT TVs were just too damn heavy/bulky to move to my new place, and I had to leave them behind, along with my Commodore 1084s monitor that my Amiga 500 was hooked up to.Almost all of that hardware still remains boxed up to this day. Thick albums full of PS2, Saturn and Wii original games and nearly every DC game ever made (pirated) and the shoebox of Amiga floppies kept staring at me in disappointment until I had to stick them in deep storage.
I still enjoy handheld gaming on my GameGear (with a pirate cart and a microSD card full of GG and SMS games, it's too damn expensive to collect old GG carts) and my DS (same deal.) Hell, I even have a MicroGBA, and it's the absolute TITS if you have GBA carts or a pirate cart around for it.
My phone is used for talking and music, nothing else. Fuck those vapid, money-sucking 'games' on Android/iOS stores. If I want to play goddamn Candy Crush or Angry Birds I can do it far better on a PC. That Raid: Shadow Legends shit can DIAF.
I really miss that teevee. But there is just no room here to re-create the geek glory of years past even if I could find another multi-switcher and good CRT. (stress sigh)
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- 11 de Oct, 2014
Oh SHIT How could I forget about my PSP? It's charging on my bedside table ffs! I was able to get several 32gb memory sticks cheap and after an easy hack I can play all of it's astounding library plus the best of the PSX. And some of those games like Crisis Core are so amazingly good looking you cannot belive that they are on a handheld. They still look great now!
It really is a shame Sony tried to go with an optical drive on it. The machine is a piece of genius already, with the ability to read off memsticks and play PS2 quality games in such a tiny package, it could have destroyed Nintendo's DS but some marketing 'guru' decided it needed to play movies on disk, a propriatary Sony disc of course! "We can put the games on it too, and lock out piracy and unwanted 3rd parties and make ALL the money! Oh, the card slot? Stick that in the side under some rubber, people can use it to store game data and shit."
Sony really shit the bed with both portables. Corporate politics suck. That's the only explanation how 2 such amazing portables were created but hamstrung at the same time, and pretty much abandoned by marketing.
@Synthwave Obsessed sez:
Thanks, fam! It really was geek heaven, I wish I had the room again to try and re-create it, we'll see what the future brings. And thankfully my offsite storage is at a place that won't get waterlogged unless the 'Big One' hits, and definately will never see bugs either, but thanks for the advice!
It really is a shame Sony tried to go with an optical drive on it. The machine is a piece of genius already, with the ability to read off memsticks and play PS2 quality games in such a tiny package, it could have destroyed Nintendo's DS but some marketing 'guru' decided it needed to play movies on disk, a propriatary Sony disc of course! "We can put the games on it too, and lock out piracy and unwanted 3rd parties and make ALL the money! Oh, the card slot? Stick that in the side under some rubber, people can use it to store game data and shit."
Sony really shit the bed with both portables. Corporate politics suck. That's the only explanation how 2 such amazing portables were created but hamstrung at the same time, and pretty much abandoned by marketing.
@Synthwave Obsessed sez:
Thanks, fam! It really was geek heaven, I wish I had the room again to try and re-create it, we'll see what the future brings. And thankfully my offsite storage is at a place that won't get waterlogged unless the 'Big One' hits, and definately will never see bugs either, but thanks for the advice!