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Old electronic devices you still have a soft spot for.

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Mineshaft_Gap

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Around 2005 when this was released it was the best HDD based MP3 player on the market. It was one of the first DAPs to feature video playback (albiet at 15fps or so). Supported a smorgasbord of different audio codecs like OGG, FLAC, APE etc. The battery life for audio playback was easily 2x that of any other MP3 player on the market. Clocking in at around 30-40 hours.

I put mine on ebay a couple years ago. It sold for $450 AND it needed a bit of work. An X5 with Rockbox is STILL an amazing audio player to this day.

I'm sad to see the state of HDD based DAPs. If you want to carry your massive music collection around with you there are few alternatives to the iPod Classic and the Zune.

*sigh*

Then I saw this:

http://anythingbutipod.com/2010/10/the-long-awaited-cowon-x7-arrives/#more-1998

A glimmer of hope.

Successor to the X5 being released overseas. I hope it sees a stateside release. Take a look at those specs.

* Screen 4.3″ 480×272
* TV Out (composite) + Line In
* Size: 78.6 x 14.5 x 126.9 mm
* Weight 212g
* Colors: White, Black, Dark Purple
* Capacities: 80GB, 120GB, 160GB (They also mention Flash 2GB but im not sure what that means, if its additional memory on top of the HDD or if its a stand alone flash capacity- likely the former)
* Battery: 103h audio, 10h video
* Audio: <P3/2, WMA, OGG, FLAC, APE, WAV
* Video: AVI, DIVX, Xvid, WMV, ASF
* Bluetooth 2.0 A2DP/AVRCP
* BBE 3.0, Speaker, FM Radio, Recorder, Pictures, Documents, Flash Player, Dictionary, Notepad, Comic Viewer, Stopwatch, Calculator
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Always-honest

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Ducky_McGee said:
x5_01.jpg


Around 2005 when this was released it was the best HDD based MP3 player on the market. It was one of the first DAPs to feature video playback (albiet at 15fps or so). Supported a smorgasbord of different audio codecs like OGG, FLAC, APE etc. The battery life for audio playback was easily 2x that of any other MP3 player on the market. Clocking in at around 30-40 hours.

I'm sad to see the state of HDD based DAPs. There are few alternatives to the iPod Classic and Zune nowadays if you want to carry your massive music collection around with you everywhere you go.

*sigh*

Then I saw this:

http://anythingbutipod.com/2010/10/the-long-awaited-cowon-x7-arrives/#more-1998

A glimmer of hope.

Successor to the X5 being released overseas. I hope it sees a stateside release. Take a look at those specs.
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MP3 is not old.
 
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Ducky_McGee said:
I'm not talking strictly tubes, tape, and vinyl here Broseph Stalin. Stop trying to keep me down.

In the world of MP3 players the X5 is ancient.
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Fucking youngster. You have no right to create a topic like this.
mp3 is mp3. Come back when mp3 is replaced with a new standard.
i feel old
 
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chaostrophy

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The X5 is still the best portable audio player in existence. No newer model from any manufacturer can match its storage capacity and sound quality with a drag-and-drop interface.
 
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rollingstart

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I don't know why exactly. I have a collection of portable gaming hardware and the pocket still stands out to me.
 
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BocoDragon

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
SDTV in general...

This goes hand in hand with the appreciation for old consoles of course. I have pretty much all of them till hooked up to a small 22" flatscreen SDTV in a nice little setup. I even have redundant consoles displayed: PS1, Gamecube... I have a slim AND phat PS2 on display (one's hard-modded and one's soft-modded). I also have SNES AND Super Famicom, NES AND AV Famicom :p I love me old consoles.

They all look like SHIT on HDTVs and IMO people who are hooking up old consoles to HDTVs are doing it wrong. And since I have the little SDTV, DVD still lives, Wii Netflix is awesome, I don't have a VCR but I wouldn't be opposed to it if I have a reason.

Love live SD! :lol
 
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DrForester

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AIRic said:
Still have mine, but the storage and specially the connector made it useless.
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I saw a parallel port PCI card at microcenter and I'm thinking of picking it up just to hook the thing up again.
 
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Drkirby

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I have a 10+ year old style TI-30 Calculator. The rectangle has so much more stlye then the current version with its curves.
 
Tesseract

Tesseract

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the model m keyboard is the most best of all greatest keyboards.

*edit* oh and the ti-83 series of graphing calculators.
 
MetalAlien

MetalAlien

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Ducky_McGee said:
I just nostalgia'd up in this bitch. Had a TV like this as a kid in the living room.
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I was so impressed with it because it had a composite (not component) input on the back. I thought that was some futuristic shit back in the day. When the PS1 came out I actually got to use it.. ha ha.
 
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BocoDragon

or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Oh and speaking of one old console in particular... while I'm sure most of you have devices that can play PS1 games between PS2, PS3 or PC... how many remember the old PS1 startup sound? It sends me into fits of late-90s nostalgia (I thought it was cheesy back then, but now I think it is The Voice of God).

Listen!
 
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WillyFive

Member
Not really that old, but the N64 is still big with me. Also, this laptop from Windows 95. Doesn't work anymore, but the memories (and the hard drive) are still inside.
 
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Jazzem

Member
In regards to old consoles on HDTVs, my Sony 20" inch handles them pretty well, but then it is tiny (plus I have RGB cables for the SNES and Mega Drive which look really nice, so colourful :D)

So yeah;

NES/SNES/Mega Drive/N64/Game Boy (/Pocket)/Game Boy Advance SP/Game Boy Micro

Love 'em all to bits, though some maintenance has to take place (anyone else ever had to clean the inside parts of a controller to make them more responsive?). I still need to mode the SNES and Mega Drive for import play and 60Hz (please feel incredibly fortunate, NTSC region folk :|).

As for non-video game stuff...there's nothing I really use any more to my knowledge, though I am still rocking this phone:

sonyericssonk750itillsa.jpg


Not the most retro, but certainly alone in a smart phone world. It has an surprisingly powerful and useful torch light on the back though :D
 
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fastford58

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I have a GE alarm clock from the late 80s that is still trucking. It's a GE 7-4634B.

It has never let me down and I think it is going to keep on trucking for as ling as I'm around anyway. Best piece of electronics I have ever owned.
 
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