Do any of you collect obsolete or dated technology for the fun of it?

Question

...and if so, what kind(s) of things do you collect like that? Do you use them as well?

For fun, I have a couple of cool and colorful dial Telephones that I use in spare rooms, and a old 8 track player and some tapes I use to amuse friends, and a old Atari game system I play for kicks because of it's primitive look and a huge LED watch. All of this stuff is courtesy of garage sales, and I dont spend too much as the cheap price is part of the fun!

Anybody else collect the occasional obsolete tech item for amusment purposes?

Answer 1

I have mostly obsolete computers. My collection consists of an Atari 800XL which I've had since I was about 8, along with the cassette drive and Atari 1050 5-1/4" disk drive, but I also got the Indus GT disk drive too! You know back in the day, that meant money when it came to floppy drives. It was the quietest, fastest floppy drive on the market! The only thing you could do better with the Atari was to sink about $1000 into the 8Mb hard drive! Back to the collection, Commodore 64 w/2 drives, Commodore 128, TRS-80 model 100 LCD laptop, Digital VT-100 dumb terminal, OSI (Ohio Scientific) Challenger III with two 8" disk drives, an Atari 2600 game console, original Nintendo, 2nd gen Sega Genesis, Dreamcast and an 8-track player. I wouldn't mind picking up a decent Laserdisk player, either. You ever hear of Selectavision before? They were like records that had movies on them! Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SelectaVision

I still use the Atari 800XL to play games on, and I write some cheesy music using the 4 channel sound with it too. The 2600 gets some play as well. The Commodores are collecting dust and the same with the dumb terminal. The TRS-80 model 100 gets used a lot actually. I used it, and the Atari to connect to the internet via a dialup modem in a shell connection. I got on IRC into some chat rooms with it, too! The TRS-80 model 100 is really useful since it works great as a portable dumb terminal and outlasts my laptops on battery life since it'll run off of AA batteries and the display isn't backlit. I knew someday someone else out there would appreciate my "junk" collection!

Answer 2

entertainment parks are exciting to pass to on a date. on condition which you the two have lots to talk approximately besides regardless of the undeniable fact that, considering the fact that now and returned the lines are long for the rides. I even have additionally enjoyed going to comedy golf equipment on a date. Get thier early sufficient to have some thing to devour till now hand to be waiting to talk to a minimum of one yet another regardless of the undeniable fact that, in any different case there's no speaking till afterwards, yet then you definately can talk with regard to the comedian and jokes, etc.

Answer 3

I don't have room for a lot of old gadgets but I do collect photos of old machines; aircraft, ships, cars, engines, abandoned & derelict buildings, etc. Weird perhaps, but it keeps me off the streets ;-)