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    Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

    Let's hear it, which old gadgets do you refuse to let go of?
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    Re: Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

    I'm no hoarder, in fact, I'm quite brutal with older gadgets, if it takes up space it's out.
    So with that in mind, I think (no joke) my old iPhone 3GS which I use soley as a vessel for iPlayer

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

    But mini-disc IS the future....

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

    I loved Mini-disc. What wasn't to like? CD-size storage in a protected medium. It was ace.

    I was in a hospital the other day, and delighted to see that they carried out checks and audits with HP iPaqs. I used to love my iPaq. (as an aside, have apple ever sued HP for using the i? Not that I want to give them ideas...).

    So... anyway... the oldest gadget I still use... interesting one... And, indeed, thinking philosophically, the question has highlighted a dependance upon gadgets that I hadn't properly considered before.

    Porbably my 80gb Ipod, which is one of the ones with a wheel and a little screen. 3rd gen? Or my kindle, which is a keyboard one, and which my kids get terribly confused about coz you can't swipe the screen.
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    Re: Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

    Quote Originally Posted by Shooty* View Post
    Porbably my 80gb Ipod, which is one of the ones with a wheel and a little screen. 3rd gen? Or my kindle, which is a keyboard one, and which my kids get terribly confused about coz you can't swipe the screen.
    Ditto here - iPod Video 5th Gen. Sound quality is head and shoulders better than the cut-down iPhones that Apple punt these days.

    Nokia 770 still gets a whirl every so often, and my windows PC still has a cassette tape drive in it - to get my old C90's converted into MP3s.

    Shame this question wasn't asked last year - then I could have said "Palm Tungsten T3" - unfortunately I got B-Folders on my S3, so didn't need the old T3 for encrypted password storage any more.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

    apple i. can't do much stuff though...

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    I still use a hp ipaq, mostly for satnav but it does have tomb raider installed too.

    Past that I would say its my nintendo ds lite, still going strong.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

    I think my nintendo SP. Haven't seen anything that makes me wanna buy any of the newer ones.

    Though even older is my oregon scientific clock with a projector if you count that as a gadget, bit glitchy every now and then but still going strong.

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    Re: Features - QOTW: What's the oldest gadget you still use?

    Not really sure it counts... but I have my grandma's old roberts radio from the 70's.

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    My wife is 27 years old, I've had her a number of those years - does that count as a gadget?

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    I'm honestly not sure what my oldest still used gadget is. Might be one of my Canon lenses, or perhaps one of my Dell 24" monitors which pre-date my desktop by a couple of years.

    I've got boxes of much older stuff, but none of it gets used and really is over due to be cleared out. Pentium Pro motherboard anyone?

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    For me it would have to be the apple laptop I use on a day to day basis. It's one of the original macbooks (not a pro, a white one). The battery is dead, it can't run youtube without lagging (not buffering) but I can't be bothered getting a new one + it would cost too much.

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    still using my 160GB iPod classic as it plugs into my headunit and works brilliant.

    Don't use it with iTunes though.
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    Are PC Surround-sound speakers classed as a gadget? If so then my Creative Inspire 5300 speakers have been providing my PC's audio since 1999.

    Other than that, probably my SNes (originally purchased 1993) which still gets occasional use..
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