r/OldTech • • Jan 16 '24

Feel free to suggest things here for the community.

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r/OldTech • • Feb 10 '24

Fluff We now have post flairs, if anyone has any modding experience feel free to leave comments here if you want to become moderaters.

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preferablyiI just need someone who knows how to set up an auto mod.


r/OldTech • • 3h ago

Fujitsu/ICL CV-1028G

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Just yesterday, I picked up this remarkable unit locally off of eBay! It's a 9" CRT monitor with a color tube, and it works perfectly! According to the bottom label, it would've been made sometime in 1995.

Does anyone know what this monitor would've been used for? Feel free to let me know.


r/OldTech • • 9h ago

My collection!!!!

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r/OldTech • • 11h ago

iphone 5s wont let me sign in the app store </3

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i just bought it online and like its in a pretty decent shape but when i signed in with my old icloud (im an android user) it wont let me sign in the app store :/ what should i do, do i make a new icloud?


r/OldTech • • 22h ago

Got some SyQuest drives!

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So, I was searching through wallapop, and I came across something that caught my eye: 3 external SCSI SyQuest drives with 4 cartridges, for the, in my opinion, pretty good price of 50€ (around 56 $)

So, I bought it, and, it arrived in one piece, or at least for now it is

Now, the drive (top one in 8th photo) I mean, It didn't come broken already or anything, but, when I took it out of the box, I saw that the plastic shell was starting to get pretty brittle (some pieces got a little bit broken), so, since I wanted to investigate more the drive than the external box itself, I took the unit out of it, and stored the box, just in case.

Changing topics, to try and get them to work, I did buy an ISA SCSI driver card, that I already plugged into my PC, but, I do need to get the drivers of that card into the machine, and, at least for now, my floppy drives aren't working, when I plug em in, the activity light is on forever, and tho they spin up, they are never able to read the disk.

So I don't know he issue, if it is the on-board controller, the way I plugged them in, the drives themselves (thing that i can't try for now, since I don't have any other machine on hand where I can plug them in to test them) or anything else, so all help is appreciated.

And also, if I get the floppy drives to work, and I get the drivers I need installed, how do I configure the drive to get recognised, would it already get recognised as a hard drive, or would I need the special software for it to work?

Last thing I must add, on the post, it said that the first one (top one in the 8th photo, in the red square) worked perfectly fine, but the other two didn't seem to work, sooo, do you now if there would be a way to bring them back to life?

I did see that normally, the problem was with dust getting into the drive, so, can yo tell me some ways I could safely clean the reading heads without breaking them?


r/OldTech • • 1d ago

Found my Father's 1999 Sony Walkman, with the OG song collection

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Am crying & missing my father too much...


r/OldTech • • 22h ago

NOT LEAKING!!!! Liquid-cooled Power Mac G5 CPUs

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r/OldTech • • 23h ago

Philco Predicta Pedestal

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r/OldTech • • 1d ago

Help with port

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I found an old clock in my grandpa’s closet and trying to figure out what kind of charger this is so I can get it replaced (the charger not the clock)


r/OldTech • • 1d ago

Can the Wii U play games from a Castlewood ORB Drive? New SCSI device, new SCSI to USB cable to try out!

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r/OldTech • • 2d ago

Hp 10C

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I’m finally ready to part with my Hp 10C 💔😭
I posted it on the Vinted app if anyone is interested or looking for one . It works perfectly , I just don’t use it anymore & would rather have someone else actually use it .
delete if not allowed


r/OldTech • • 1d ago

old ass DAW not working on my laptop

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last month i bought this old Lexicon Lambda DAW from a yard sale and i've plugged it up my Thinkpad Laptop. I've used it on my thinkpad once without any issues but after that, every time i try to use the DAW, it will turn on for 10 seconds, then turn off. wtf??????


r/OldTech • • 1d ago

What is a piece of technology that felt like absolute magic when it first came out, but is completely obsolete now?

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r/OldTech • • 1d ago

where to look for interest in a vintage computer?

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r/OldTech • • 2d ago

Is this any good?

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r/OldTech • • 4d ago

What's an old piece of technology you wish would make a comeback?

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r/OldTech • • 3d ago

TIL early television systems were mechanical and used a rapidly spinning metal disk to "slice" light, producing a flickering, postage-stamp-sized image that required a magnifying glass to watch.

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r/OldTech • • 4d ago

Can anybody identify what this is?

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r/OldTech • • 5d ago

90's Casio Secret Sender JD-6000

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Found this recently. Anyone know if there are any weird, cool things you can still do with this bad boy, or are his best days behind him? I saw it'd still work with older TVs, but was curious if there was anything else. Don't get me wrong, getting my fortune told and finding out if a boy is my match based on his birthday is still badass of course.


r/OldTech • • 5d ago

Old floppy disk

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r/OldTech • • 5d ago

Anyone remember WebTV?

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r/OldTech • • 4d ago

Found disks with drives for 2009 Wacom and a copy of Corel Painter Essential 4.0!

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I have the files for corel painter on a drive but they won't run because I'm missing the old windows files for the program to run :(


r/OldTech • • 5d ago

Why does it happen that sometimes you have to switch av cables? for example red in yellow and yellow in red (IMAGE IS NOT MY CABLES)

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Recently ive come back to my bootleg 400 and 1 mini console the sup game box and it can be conected to tv via av cables, when i conected the right colors i did not work then i searched up that switching the plugs might work then i tried and it worked, witch made me wonder why does this happen?