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What's the oldest piece of tech you still have running? (suppo.fi)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And tell me how proud of it you are.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Should be able to dig up a fully functioning Sony Minidisk player. Owned and lost quite a few of them over the years. Damn things were sleek and small, but they meant the world to me. Napster and then Limewire provided the mp3s thanks to the old 56k dialup modem, then a mini jack connection from PC to the Minidisk. It took a hell of a long time to get everything set up just so, but it was worth it. Every time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Those things were sooo cool!!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I used my Minidisk player a lot for radio interviews. A nice little machine. You could run over one of those disks with a steamroller, then drop in in boiling water and it would still play just fine.