What's your favorite retro tech that you still use?

[entremet]

The VCR thread got me thinking about retro tech. There are many subcultures of retro tech, from gaming (both console and PC), to music (casettes are making a comeback)

My fav that I still use are CRTs. I have a Sony Trinitron that I have connected some retro consoles and a Wii, with a collection of VC games. Even though we have nice upscaling options and cool filters, playing on a real CRT, like the ones I grew up with, really hits the spot for me. I also say this as someone with with a 4k set and modern consoles. It's not either/or.

 

[BossAttack]

Pen and Paper?

 

[doublechocochip]

Record player

 

[Dest]

My hand.

 

[Deleted member 1086]

vinyl records

 

[shnurgleton]

clothes

 

[entremet]

Pen and Paper?

Click to shrink...

I'll accept that haha.

 

[BuryAllen]

CRT trinitron computer monitor

 

[shnurgleton]

internal combustion engine

 

[purplemonkey111]

Corded earphones

 

[Deleted member 16516]

Mechanical watch.

 

[Indelible]

I still use the stereo I got in 1999 on my 4K TV, talk about built to last.

 

[Deleted member 431]

Turntable and vinyl records.

 

[Kawaii]

Casio Calculator Watch

 

[Squarehard]

Headphone plugs.

 

[Rocketz]

keys

 

[Deleted member 24052]

Internal combustion engines.

Also I much prefer analog clocks to digital clocks.

 

[Devilgunman]

A 110 film camera. Love this little thing.

 

[No Onions]

vacuum tubes

 

[entremet]

A 110 film camera. Love this little thing.

Click to shrink...

I remember these. Wow.

 

[Walter White Walker]

Wired headphones
Desktop PC

 

[Deleted member 45617]

A microwave that goes ding instead of beep

 

[Chubnasty]

Basic non-graphing scientific calculator, like the ti-36 model(s)

 

[Reym]

I actuslly still like to listen to CDs in the car. They're usually about the right length, and I'm usually hankering for specific bands or sounds, so popping in a CD beats scrolling through a thousand individual tracks or spending forever making playlists.
...I recognize this is stupid of me, but I'm okay with that.

 

[Goldenroad]

I gotta shout out the wheel. That invention was tight.

 

[GreenMonkey]

I didn't have room for my widescreen FW900 CRT computer monitor and sold it like 7 years back, I miss it. I'd still have it if I had the room for it. At the time I sold it, I didn't even have room for a gaming rig at all. I'd also have a CRT TV for retro console games if I had the space.

It'd probably be old console controllers for me - I prefer legit OEM controllers when at all possible, unless I'm playing something it doesn't matter than an RPG. I hate playing games for systems on different controllers. The consoles themselves are the new Analogue FPGA gadgets, but I prefer authentic wired controllers for anything twitchy.

So, OEM wired NES controllers are my oldest still actually in use gadget.

 

[Not a Horse]

I still use a launch day first gen iPad from over a decade ago.

 

[julia crawford]

I have a twin lens reflex camera, it's cool

 

[nilbog]

I still use my Zune sometimes.

 

[Leona Lewis]

 

[turbobrick]

I still use a CRT for older games.

I also drive a car from the 80s if that counts as tech.

I'm sure there's others that I don't consider retro.

 

[Daniel Jackson]

An iPad 2. Still in use for displaying building instructions when I'm building Lego.
The rest of its time it's serving as a mouse mat

 

[Deleted member 6173]

A 110 film camera. Love this little thing.

Click to shrink...

I love the sound the flash made as it charged up.

 

[ExoExplorer]

I bought a old PC crt to use with my gamecube and wii. Really brings me back to the early 2000s.

 

[looprider]

Earbuds with wires. Scared to go wireless because I'm sure I will lose the earbuds.

 

[Wood Man]

Polaroid Cameras. They make these new ones that uses a new type of film. They just fun for parties or events.

 

[angelgrievous]

Yeah, my crt. But also: PS1,PS2, Xbox, n64, Dreamcast, gba. I'm also on an iPhone 6 if that counts.

 

[Alien Bob]

Shoes. Gotta love em.

 

[GungHo]

Hitachi Magic Wand, c 1968.

 

[Powdered Egg]

The yoyo

 

[Joseph Joestar]

The Nintendo Switch. Love it. But its performance is like a Wii U 1.2.

 

[Bradford]

I play everything on CRTs still for the most part.

We moved past them well before their time.

 

[Shining Star]

Nevermind misread the topic.

 

[eXistor]

Sony CRT for retro gaming I suppose, and of course the retro consoles and games themselves.

 

[The Albatross]

Man.... pretty much nothing. I'm trying to think of something. I'm not much of a collector or really keep a lot of things, and like I have stuff that's old -- Kitchaid Mixer -- but those are all still like "the best common version" of that common thing. I don't have any smart stuff in my kitchen, all dumb appliances, so maybe those, but I figure most people have dumb appliances still.

My oil burner in my basement is fucking old and needs to be replaced within the next 2-3 years. Wouldn't call it retro, just shitty.

 

[FullMetalJacket]

Casio PB-770 pocket computer

 

[impingu1984]

Just prototyped my raspberry pi model b rev 1.2 (it's the first gen one with 512mb ram rather than 256mb) circa 2012 into a digital picture frame that's going to sit on my desk... Takes photos from a certain folder on my Google drive and have nice transitions between photos etc...

Just looking to get a 10inch IPS display and build it into a nice frame and it's all good.

This raspberry pi has been all sorts of things over the years... Love it despite its age and low horsepower..

 

[nded]

I've got a record player and a tube amp.

 

[Reluctantly Gumblesmug]

Mechanical watches are nifty, I've got a couple.
My car also has a cd player. Part of me wants to drop in a Bluetooth audio system but it's been kinda fun collecting albums.
All my vehicles are manual transmission too, if that counts.

 

[Laevateinn]

Sharp X68000, CRT monitors.