Obsolete Electronics

[spamn]

I bought a classic Mac off Ebay for $25 with plans to use it as a custom case mod. I hope I get to it someday. I love retro computers. I also want to get a TRS-80 and do the same thing.

[megoat]

In 2010 I'd hardly call a record player "obsolete"--maybe "niche" but not obsolete....

But yeah, I have a love for this stuff, too. I collect space age era electronic devices....



I like 80's boomboxes. I have a couple of those around.



Also, I have an Apple IIGS I fire up once in a while.

I have an Atari 2600 and an NES.....

[generic]

Record players are NOT obsolete! I still listen to records and for many albums, I prefer to listen to them on vinyl than on CD. The first Ramones album just doesn't sound right on any other format (and I heard it on Cassette and CD before I ever heard it on vinyl so that opinion is not simply because vinyl was how I heard it first!)

Also, I love the Atari 2600 and have many games for mine!

[LadyZod]

Inspired by the Faux 1977 iPod thread, I started thinking about electronics of days past and I realized that anyone walking into my home might be surprised at how many obsolete dodads we have.

I'm talking multiple laserdisc machines (one in each room), record players, cassettes, things of that sort.

Then there is the goofiness... my husband LOVES buying atari machines (the woodgrain ones) and portable 8Track players everytime he finds them at a thirft store or fleamarket/garage sale.

Me? I'm goofy in the sense that I love obsolete computers to fiddle with. I'm currently working on an Apple iBook (clamshell model) with a whole 3gb harddrive and 300mHz fast PPC processor. (Planning on getting it up and going running linux or if I can get a recovery disc for OS 9, OS 9 and using the airport card for wireless surfing in public places to goof on folks.)

Anyone else here have a quirky love for out of date machines, collect them or mod them into newer pieces that resemble the old pieces?

I've had this goofy idea to get a console TV turntable woodgrain enclosure and replacing the tube TV with a new flatscreen (with woodgrain bezel) and removing the old recordplayer and placing with a USB turntable. Might make for a cool conversation piece once we finish our den. (and by finish our den, I mean actually start on it.)