I have a RAID in my PC.
Sorry if bindun.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 17:53, Reply)

Not strictly redundant
but the most popular game on our Wii is Super Metroid (1994, SNES) - which is played on a SNES style (well, close enough) Wii controller.

On the XBox 360, a lot of time is spent on Rez, a PS2 game from 2001.

And on the PC, MAME.

Old school on new tech.
( Fathter Puddytat Kill Kill dat widdle boid is mine on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 17:52, 3 replies)

A Megadrive...
...which I keep around solely for the purpose of playing Streets of Rage II & III.

Matches, because they look so much cooler than a cheap lighter in a club.

Soap. Some of my acquiantances have told me I should get with the times and use shower gel (yes, we discussed shower habits. It was a slow day). These people are, ironically, the smelliest people I know.
(a gun that fires other, smaller guns full of jizz, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 17:43, 3 replies)

one summer when i was living back at home after uni
my parents were on holiday. my brother and i got all nostalgic for our old computer games like "digger" and "champions of krynn" so we got out 'loot' and bought an old amstrad with a 5 and 1/4 floppy drive.

we fought over it for 6 weeks exactly like we did when we were 6 and 8.

my parents came home and my dad promptly binned it. still got all the discs though.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 17:30, 1 reply)

gamecube
nothing brings me as much joy as playing mariokart double dash or ocarina of time on my little gamecube. you can keep all your fancy wii games, nothing is as good to me as my gamecube.


well, except that.....
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:46, 8 replies)

I have worked in the print trade for years
I have seen all sorts of storage devices over the years

mag tapes
syquest optical disk drives
zip disks
Jazz drives and the disks to use in them
writable cd and dvd's
usb flash drives
and now the sorcery that is the 1 and 2tb external/internal hard drives

My pal who i sit opposite at work still uses 3.5 inch diskettes !!!!!
i berate him daily but trying to make him move on is like pissing in the wind.
(Cov Boy, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:43, 4 replies)

35mm Anyone?
When I studied my AS in Photography around 5/6 years ago, we used 35mm cameras, and ever since I've just loved shooting on them because of their manual nature. It wasn't until the start of this year I bought myself a Praktica BCA, which I kid you not, is as old as I am!

Thing is when I get my photos developed it takes around a week, and when I get them back they're on CD, which is kinda cheating - because I miss not being able to develop the negatives and photos personally.
(Factorandvibration, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:37, 14 replies)

I recently threw away my collection of printed pronography
I gathered all my mags up and chucked them in a bin bag and dumped it in my neighbours bin. As I did so I felt a tear course down my cheek. There was no point of leaving the collection in the woods for kids to find, cherish and masturbate furiously to. Bloody new fangled internet ruining the traditions of the past.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:37, 7 replies)

The record
"A Christmas Together" by the Muppets.
I love it.
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:36, 2 replies)

Atari 2600
I purchased one a month ago. (Original Wood one too).
It sits pride of place between the Wii and the Xbox360.

It brought a tear to my eye when my kids requested to play the "Tank Game" (Combat) rather than Lego Batman on the Wii.
(Opanoid Look sweats dripping off them, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:30, 5 replies)

Cameras and Records!
I have an old Diana F camera somewhere in the apocalypse I call my bedroom, I'm using it for my Photography A-Level. It's my Nan's and she's had it since she was 30ish (So around 1956). Absolute shite for pictures now, but the teachers and examiners jizz all over it!

I have this old record player as well that I got from a charity shop that I play some stuff on when I want to relax/work.
Along with an original vinyl of the "Lady and the Tramp" soundtrack!
But noooo, I never use it for fun!
*Hides Bonnie Tyler, The Supremes and Joan Jett records*
( Trogdos The Raging Cuntmuffin, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:29, 6 replies)

DBase IV. Microsoft Access sucks big sweaty balls. I don't care if it is the industry standard, it's shit.
(redexile, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:28, 7 replies)

I've written this using a quill.....
(stonersmurf stuckin' foned, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:26, 2 replies)

Damn it feels good to be a DOS geek...
I was tasked with copying a folder and its contents to another location and renaming everything from 50MMGD to 100MMGD (we were using it as the starting point for a new project). My boss smirked and said, "That ought to keep you busy for a few hours."

"Oh really?" I opened a DOS shell and typed in "ren 50*.* 100*.*" and sat back for a moment as it scrolled, then said "Okay, what next?"

It took him a moment to get his jaw off the floor.
( Wanderer, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:26, 21 replies)

Outdated?
I prayed for my wounds to heal instead of seeing the doctor.
(Maccy Divided by 0 on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:25, 2 replies)

Sometimes knowing the old technology is worthwhile.
One lab where I worked had a testing machine that ran on DOS and had an ancient computer hooked up to it. The IT department refused to touch the thing, so when the computer died there was much panic.

I ignored the chaos and got the computer to restart, got a floppy disc and copied the software onto it. I then used another old machine to transfer the software onto the network, set up an icon to run it in a DOS shell, and then told my boss where it was.

Four engineers in their forties couldn't figure it out. It took a lowly assistant to get the thing going again. FFS.
( Wanderer, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:20, 3 replies)

/talk
looks to be disappearing up it's own shitcunt.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:17, 40 replies)

I used a BBC Micro emulator to send a 2400bps ASCII string to open up a motorised nav screen on a DB9
it was quicker and cheaper than buying RS232-terminal software, all you have to do it Print the characters with the output to the serial port and a few *FX calls to set the baud and parity.

28 year old computer technology, although being emulated on a 2 year old computer running at 1,000 times the clock speed and twice the processors and infinityflibbertygibbets more storage and RAM. It still plays Mr Ee and Starship Command as well :-)

About the same age and still going strong, there are a lot of computer-based industrial devices or garage alignment tools like MOT gas analysers that still need dot matrix printers and ink ribbons to work with three-part carbon paper stationary. Bleurgh!
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:14, 1 reply)

I still use toilet paper...
The bidet crowd can wipe my arse.
(The Archduke of South London I'm in your Girlfriend eating her organs, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:11, Reply)

redundant technology.....
that may well be me after christmas :(
(Lip Up Fatty Fatty Reggae still loves BBQ food on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:05, Reply)

a 32MB mp3 player
back in, I think 1997ish, there was this shiny new music format called mp3. through a friend, I bought a bunch mp3 players - I think they were specially imported from Japan or something - & flogged them off. they had 32MB of flash & as these were pre-USB days, a 9-pin serial cable to load the songs on. bless it
(weaselinajetengine, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 16:02, 1 reply)

Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2
So much fun.

I also still wear my Reading 95 and 97 shirts
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:57, 4 replies)

I have 3 Bin Bags full of Commodore 64 Tapes
A few classics in there, a fair few crap games. In fact 90% crap games. For every Flimbo Quest & Creatures II there's about 20 "Street Machines".

Can I bring myself to throw them away? Can I thump.
(rhyswynne - on every social network mullarkey known to man, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:53, Reply)

A fob watch
my great-grandfather bought in 1920 or 1921. The glass has gone and it loses about 3 minutes over the course of the day. Haven't worn a wrist watch since the day I was given it.
(Zapiola zip-zap-zop, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:50, 5 replies)

Somebody earlier said "Windows XP"
In my place of work there is a PC which performs what the bean counters would call a vital "show stopping" job in our organisation that has a speed of 133MHz and runs Windows 3.11

The only time anyone dared touch it recently was when the CRT monitor filled with ten years' accumulation of dust and caught fire....
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:47, 3 replies)

My dad - get ready for this, geeks, because it's bloody ace -
has lent me - on "long term loan", as he feels he's "done the SLR thing" - his 1967 Nikkormat and all his kit, including a lens with bellows.

Bloody MARVELLOUS.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:41, 2 replies)

The library has more books than I could possibly read in a lifetime.
Fuck you iPad.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:21, 3 replies)

fuck you, 15-tog
i still knit blankets for my bed.
out of wool.
by hand.
sounds dull, i know, but i find it most enjoyable and i have some lovely blankets and i'm always warm on cold winter nights.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:20, 12 replies)

I still buy CDs.
Bang on all you like about the clutter of jewel cases: I don't care. That's why god gave us shelves. And, although the first thing I do with a new album is copy it onto my mp3 player - 8 gig, three years old and, since Sony players aren't compatible with macs, necessitating that I bring CDs into the office to rip - the idea of obtaining music without the tangible storage medium just seems to be... wrong.

As a paradigm example, I offer Nevermind. I know it's not the best album in the world - it's not even Nirvana's best - but I still get the same thrill opening up the case as I got when I bought the album for myself shortly after it came out. Merely holding and opening the box brings a pleasure of its own.

Plus, I don't know how to download music or where from.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:16, 7 replies)

I don't just use vinyl, I love it.
I'm not even of an age where it was hugely relevant even when I started buying music. Nonetheless, I recently purchased album number 750. I love the proper sized artwork, the ceremony that goes with it and the fact that the hardware is equally fun to use;



And, just as importantly, it sounds good. I'm no luddite, good CD (to say nothing of some of the high res stuff breaking cover) will do everything vinyl can do and the buy in for good vinyl replay is not cheap but the care and attention that was lavished on the mastering and production of sixties, seventies and some eighties vinyl shines through when the needle hits the groove. Ironically modern stuff can benefit too- cut the vinyl version with the same "everything turned up to eleven" qualities as the CD and MP3 release and the needle will simply jump off the record. Often the vinyl release is a better sounding format possessed of a bit of dynamic range.

I'm not going to suggest that vinyl has a future beyond "enthusiasts" (nutters) but I simply love what it can do and how it can do it. When it was time to choose what our wedding cake was going to be, Mrs Hatred and I felt there was only going to be one thing we really wanted to model it on



I also own a Commodore Amiga I bought last year but that is purely for reliving my childhood and perfectly legit as far as I am concerned.

Length? 20 minutes a side. CD is still better for listening to in the bath for that reason.
(Leonard Hatred briefly did some work on, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 15:08, 4 replies)