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Ask HN: What’s the oldest software/hardware you still use today?
- danielvf 9y ago20 year old Macally iKey keyboard purchased from CompUSA back in the day.
- danielvf 9y ago20 year old Macally iKey keyboard purchased from CompUSA back in the day. I’ve tried, but can’t find anything I like better.
- cjbprime 9y agoApple 30" Cinema Display (2560x1600, 60Hz, dual-link DVI) that I bought in 2005 and have lugged around with me to jobs and homes since then. Still works perfectly.
- spitfire 9y agoSopwith II and druglord DOS games. Also Mathematica on NeXTstep.
- tony-allan 9y agoSony 1280x1024 "LCD Computer Display" model SDM-X73 brought in 2004. It's connected to a Raspberry Pi these days.
- chx 9y agoMight not be as old as some others as I have throughly modernized this January but https://github.com/ddev/git-blameall https://github.com/ddev/git-blameall is very useful: this is a tool similar to git-blame, but it shows every line that was ever in the file, along with information about when it was added or deleted.
- bigiain 9y agoDoes a 1957 Sputnik celebration Vostok mechanical wristwatch count as "old hardware"?
- haZard_OS 9y agoNot sure if this counts but I still have (and occasionally play with) an Atari 2600. For you younglings, that piece of hardware is almost 40 years old.
- dirktheman 9y agoI have a 1999 iBook clamshell that my daughter now uses for school. It has been upgraded with more RAM and I replaced the slow HDD for a Compact Flash card so it's probably the fastest clamshell of the world... For basic tasks (homework assignments, simple image/video editing, light browsing) it's surprisingly usable! The only downside is that I had to create a separate, unsecured WiFi network because the original Airport card doesn't play nice with modern security protocols. Oh well.
- lovelearning 9y agoA 1985 ZX Spectrum with 48K RAM that connects to a CRT TV (from the 90s) and a cassette player (from the 80s).
- gesman 9y ago20 yo clicky real mechanical IBM keyboard. Without this pesky windows button.
- sentamalin 9y agoI still use an upgraded Newton Messagepad 2000 mainly for notes and journal entries. 99% of the time I remember things better with a kinesthetic act, so it's filled with a bunch of notes and other scribbles just because I needed some kind of movement (in this case a stylus on screen) to retain it in my head. Alas, with how clunky it's been trying to sync with the rest of my digital life, it's currently in Dual-Carry status with a Note 8, with eventual retirement as a conversation starter on my bookshelf.
- psyc 9y ago1991 original SNES. Still rock solid.
- luxpir 9y agoPsion 5mx - daily use.
- silentfish 9y agoA CRM working on IBM AS/400, DB2 from the 80s.