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New submitter thereitis writes "Looking over my home computing setup, I see equipment ranging from 20 years old to several months old. What sorts of old and new equipment have you seen coexisting, and in what type of environment?" I regularly use keyboards from the mid 1980s, sometimes with stacked adapters to go from ATX to PS/2, and PS/2 to USB, and I'm sure that's not too unusual.
but college girls' equipment stays the same age.
I have a few old devices I keep by my modern equipment for perspective. You know, a sundial, a vcr, and an iphone 4.
Well my 26 year old IBM Model M keyboards I use everyday beg to differ.
Plus it can quickly be converted into a rather effective cudgel, all the better for bludgeoning AC's with no appreciation of history.
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5.25" floppy ?? have not used one of these since 1995
You would have gotten extra points if you mentioned Double Sided 5.25 Floppy.
I wonder if sales in the Single Holed Punch tanked after 5.25s went out of style.
And for the record, I'm both proud and amazed that the obvious, juvenile innuendo in my former statement didn't occur to me till I hit submit. But that's over with now. :)
I do believe that when the sun finally consumes this planet the last HP LaserJet 4 will finally die.
I'm actually skeptical of that, actually. In a billion years, hundreds of thousands of early-generation HP Laserjets will remain in orbit around the brown dwarf remnants of Sol, all blinking "PC LOAD LETTER" (because solar expansion burned away all the paper in the paper drawer).
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