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What's the oldest technology you continue using? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by cybercitizen4@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Some of my coworkers were talking about using RSS to read blogs, which made some of the younger folks in our team ask what it is and why we keep using it.

Some still use iPods to avoid subscriptions and streaming services, my favorite was one of our sysadmins who showed me Gopher.

I’m curious about others though, thanks!

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[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have a “data transcription machine” which is meant to pull data off of old media. It has:

3½″+5¼″ combo floppy drive
IDE hot swap cage
Zip 250 IDE drive
Jaz 2Gb SCSI drive
Internal 50-pin and 68-pin SCSI controllers

Let’s just say that I have enough devices cross my bench that SpinRite 6 gets a monthly workout on some piece of old storage tech or another. Not everything is recoverable, but…

[-] Yambu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Bet it sounds awesome

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