Just saw some beta video tapes at a garage sale - your favorite RIP tech?

[yoda313]

I was at a garage sale this morning and they had a box with Beta video tapes in it Ah memories.

There was a store bought GI Joe cartoon tape AND a Voltron tape too. Of course I don't have a beta player anymore and I have season 1 of voltron on dvd - wasn't ever really that into gi joe though I certainly watched it when it was on.

My family had a Sanyo betamax toploader machine back in the day.

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What are some of your favorite tech gadgets of yesteryear?

A favorite walkman radio? A record player? 8 track? Or even vhs now that that is really quite a few years in the past now?

I guess beta would be a soft spot for me.

[p_l]

My Casio DBC310-1 Databank 300 Digital Watch:



It's like the one Ryan Gosling, as Dan Dunne, a young urban high school teacher in the movie Half Nelson, wears, except mine has not the mere 150-page databank memory, but is the 300-page model. I bought it in Japan in the late '80s and I still wear it every day.

It's just one of the things Walter White and I have in common.

[yoda313]

That watch reminded me that I had one of those nintendo game watches back in middle school. I can't remember what game it was though.

But of course it was "high tech" back than. And only one game naturally but it was one of those lcd things with really just one field that didn't really change.

[_Al_]

As a kid I played on Atari 800XE, made it work with one needle printer that cost fortune too, I had to write my own driver and software that printed pictures from RAM, no hardisks then
Games like Boulder Dash http://boulderdash.krissz.hu/ took a lots of my time then, one of the best games of that time, no shooting, gravity based game ...

[usually_quiet]

Plain old copper wire landline telephone service, which will soon be history in every community where optical fiber phone lines were installed. As long as the system is maintained, it is very reliable and the only landline service that still will work if a power outage goes over 8 hours.

[redwudz]

Two computer related retro devices I have. I don't use either that often:



A LTO tape drive. I've used it off and on and still have it on one PC. It requires a SCSI interface and a fair amount of setup and takes up two 5.25 bays. But it can hold 200 GB of files.



My retro Mac SE/30. The display is actually B/W, but it does have a copy of Asteroids on it and works perfectly. Not much used, but I got it off Ebay cheap with all manuals.

[olyteddy]

My Casio DBC310-1 Databank 300 Digital Watch:

... I have in common.

I had the Casio TV remote control watch...

[SquirrelDip]

My first computer:


And my first MSDOS:

[yoda313]

@squirreldip - is that a 286 by any chance? That was my familys first computer.

I still have the old 386. Came with dos 5.0 but upgraded to dos 6.2. Has windows 3.1 also - a compudyne computer.