Curious to see how long folks hold on to certain bits of technology. Just based on a conversation I had yesterday. No judgement, some are still useful, literally just a curiosity You don't have to use it, just tick if you own one and you think it still works. Modern versions still count (eg modern record players).
You forgot one other piece of tech.....books! I have not got a kindle (do they still exist?) and will never stop buying books! Currently reading an autobiography of Count Basie that I got off ebay for a couple fo quid.
Among some of the others. I have an ancient hand held video camera. With them small video cassette tapes. ( haven’t used it for yrs. but no reason to think it still doesn’t work.) Probably 30+yrs old. Making me think is it worth owt. Keep meaning to have all the old films put onto new formats. I downloaded em onto VHS tapes. Anyone recommend anyone/anywhere to get em done and what are the costs involved. Thanks in advance.
I actually bought a SONY minidisk recorder which were non linear (unlike cassettes which were tedious winding back and forward to find tracks, and also digital. I bought it to master music tracks created on a DAW which seemed a good idea at the time. Unfortunately it very quickly became obsolete since processing power and both HDD and RAM memory on PCs and MACs relative to cost increased exponentially. I still have it in mint condition along with a dozen or so minidisks.
Perhaps we could add "legs" to the list? It feels like they were becoming redundant for many people, although they're enjoying a bit of comeback this year. Anyway, if we add them to the list, then you'll be able to vote.
I have most of this crap in the loft somewhere. No idea if any of it works though, probably not, so won’t answer yes to any of it. Also got an old Amstrad computer up there somewhere.
I've got a windows 7 desktop with a video capture card and a VHS player to digitise old videos. Problem is the PC boots up to the desktop then the screen goes blank (just a random colour). It starts up and runs fine in safe mode though. I suspect either a hardware problem or a driver issue but I can't uninstall anything in safe mode to find out what's causing it. Also the video capture software can't see the capture device in safe mode. If anyone can suggest anything I'd be grateful.
Yep, seriously, none of the above. The last I had was a DVD player, but I donated it to the Hospice last year.
I love my record player, but I just bought a new CD player, having finally been priced out of vinyl. It sounds absolutely blistering and I can pick CDs up for £2 apiece.
Good idea, can you install software in safe mode? In normal mode it's never on long enough to do anything. The other thing is that if I boot Ubuntu from a USB stick, it does the same thing - I guess that Ubuntu uses the device drivers from the Windows system but I could be wrong.