Dead and gone tech

It's a raspi but cheaper and more convenient, what's not to love? A cheap SBC that you don't need to plug a mouse, keyboard, and monitor into every time you want to log directly into it holds a lot of appeal.

Yes that is what I meant, I'm old enough that I always called them that, from the early limited devices that were basically phone number / address books on thru the palms and such. It's the psion something-or-other that has some crazy following, apparently still prized by some pilots / nerds for some reason. I remember the Cybiko, I wanted one to take apart and play with, maybe increase the range just to see if I could start a wireless network across the whole town for them. Never did get one tho.

Pocket computer did you say? How about those old Radio Shack "pocket computers"? Always wanted one to play with, never got one

Saw a pile of pre-Lenovo thinkpads at a junk shop a few months back, and I wish I had picked one up. Didn't want to drop the $20 though, but if I see one again I'll nab it. Those things are stupid fucking sturdy.

I do a lot of obsolete audio and video tech. I've got 78 and 80rpm shellac, Diamond Discs, all major speeds and sizes in vinyl, Pathe discs, Standard Disc Records, assorted flexidiscs and related formats, piano rolls for nearly every machine, a small collection of nickelodeon rolls for which an extant player isn't even known to exist, 8-track, reel to reel in several flavors, cassettes out the rear, CED, laser disc, betamax, 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, and Super 16mm film, 35mm film, and VHS (I hate having to call that obsolete now). Still dozens of formats I haven't gotten a representative of yet. I also hoard tube type radios and television, stereo consoles, clock-radios, and any other interesting old tech I can find.

I don't know if it's burger only, but happened to me, my brother, and my sister. Hell in my sister's case she had moved out, but mom didn't like her housekeeping so she went up and threw a bunch of her clutter away while she was gone. I have to work very jealously to protect my collection.

VHS
Everything just seemed better in those days. Movies felt like they had more depth. I'm probably just imagining it.

Seriously though as a burger myself I have never had this problem. No one ever tried to throw away anything I owned but they did try stealing my shit multiple times like a pack of feral niggers.

Yeah, aside from minor points like the degradation aesthetic and the sounds of certain loaders, the entire ecosystem was a mess that I have no yearning to experience it again. Those things can get filled up with unspooled tapes in Hell AFAIC.

There were tons of people keeping old tech alive before Apphole came along and said "DRINK SOY! MAKE MOBLE APPS!!! YOU DONT NEED TO REPAIR IT!!!! BUY A NEW ONE EVERY YEAR!!!"

But people still have Ataris and Tube radios, and all kinds of other shit lying around. So theres that ;)