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whats the oldest piece of tech you're using?

mjs warlord said:
For the last 19 years i have been using a logitec g5 mouse but today the left mouse button had got so thin with wear and tear that my finger went through it .... R.I.P. old friend.

I have replaced it with a steelseries rival 3 but i think it might be faulty because it keeps freezing on web pages and i have to plug in my old g5 to do shut down.
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Seems like it's not working properly but can't really say what the problem is from that description.

Can't say I have really old gear in use. Oldest one is my laptop which is from 2017. I don't really remember hanging on to older gear a lot. I think the one I kept for longest were a couple of inexpensive speakers, which I may have had for 15 years or so.
 
I don't know exactly how old it is, but the hard disk drive I have as a miscellaneous storage drive is the oldest piece of hardware I am using in my current setup. I know it's at least 10 years old, but may be closer to 15.
Everything else in my setup is 5 years or less.
 
I think most of the components in my PC are about 8 years old. The SSD might be a bit older than that, but I'm not sure how old it would be. Everything else is newer.

Though I do have a handmixer from the 70s, maybe 80s, so around 40 to 50 years old.

EDIT: I almost forgot, but I do also still have two GameCube controllers, those are probably at least 15 years old. Though nowadays I use an emulator and use my wireless Xbox controllers most of the time.
 
UPDATE .... Just got a refund on the new steel series rival 3 , the first time i used it , it took several minutes for pc to get to desktop instead of 10 seconds. The rival 3 mouse pointer just kept freezing on web and in games and i had to plug in a spare mouse so i could shut down instead of holding power button.

If anyone can recommend a good gaming mouse for around £45 i would be grateful
 
@mjs warlord If you can get it on sale (I bought it for around £40-45), I can recommend the Logitech G Pro Wireless. It has amazing battery life and overall good quality. Had it for three years now and after using it for several hours each day, I have not had any problems with it. I also use very little LED light on it, so I have to charge it once every 1-2 weeks depending on how many hours each day I use it. The charge time is around 1 hour, so pretty fast considering how much usage you get.

My oldest tec that is still working is my Atari 520ST from 1985.
 
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Oldest currently used:
12 year old Logitech Z906 Speakers
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they replaced my previously oldest part of gear which was my Logitech Z5500 speakers

I wish I was this guy
Its not a fair question, Z5500 were better.

If I didn't have the speakers, I wouldn't be contemplating getting a sound card for next pc.

Desktop gaming dacs are only built to connect to headphones (and they might struggle with one set I have) not speakers. I feel like I am being forced to stop using my speakers even though they work fine.

Oldest piece of hardware I own was made in November 1965 but its not exactly operational as the computer its part of was destroyed before I got the part. It was used to track the Apollo Missions. You couldn't do a lot with it by itself. I wouldn't know where to begin.

Oldest part of current PC is only 5 years old. Most of it is under 3 years of age.
 
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My oldest piece of hardware is a 1TB external drive that I use for secondary backups. It's only about 6 years old though and my main backup drive is now a 2TB crucial external nvme.

mjs warlord said:
If anyone can recommend a good gaming mouse for around £45 i would be grateful
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I'm using a Logitech G502 Hero mouse and you can pick them up for £35 on amazon. For a wired mouse it's fantastic and always get's good reviews.

If you want a wireless mouse then the Logitech G305 Lightspeed is £40 on amazon. It has only 6 programmable buttons compared to the G502's 11 and lacks RGB. It also run's on a single AA battery rather than being rechargeable.
 
My first speakers on PC were a set of Creative 2.1 (I then won the 5.1 set in a competition and never looked back).
I have older furniture that used to hold PC up, than I do any hardware. Think I have used the same box for different purposes for about 25 years now.
Hardware changes, room stays the same.
 
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