Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New?

Posted by timothy on from the revisiting-the-unary-days dept.

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.

1 of 338 comments (clear)

  1. Apple ][+ by Lord+Byron+II · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have an Apple II+ that I program on at least once a week. It's a fun exercise to see what I can get the old machine to do. I don't have any disk drives, so I use the cassette interface. But I don't have a cassette deck either, so I use my brand new laptop as the storage by plugging the Apple into its audio ports. So I have 33 year old tech not just co-existing, but working in tandem with, brand new equipment.