I’m bored, so I’m charging my ~16-year-old iPad from when I was really young. You can ask me stuff about it or just talk about your old electronics :)
I found a Amiga 500 the other day. I took it apart and have been cleaning it. Seems to be okay, under all the dust. Just need to find some electricity and something to connect it to.
That’s fun!!!
Very much so. I have been on a retro binge recently. I had a feeling that the Amiga might still be in the basement at my parents… and it was. Also found a NES and my old games there. Been gaming Startropics lol
I was given an older ipad a while back, so I created an account to use it. It was disappointing to find that it was too old to download newer apps, and since my account has never been used to download any versions of apps, it couldn’t be used to download older versions. The workaround was to use an apple computer to download apps, but I do not have one.
You should Jailbreak it.
Do you not have any spare electricity?
I do, heaps. But I don’t currently have a (safe) way to transfer the electricity from my wall into the Amiga.
I recently bought a cheap 5th gen Intel NUC and installed Batocera on it. Now I actually get to play some of the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation 1 games that I never had the chance to play as a kid, due to never owning a console
I’ve got the control panel off an old CNC machine… It has delightfully clicky switches and knobs and I keep meaning to make some sort of controller out of it and never get around to it…
Hope the battery is more or less okay, watch out if the screen starts bulging out, spicy pillows can be dangerous…
I bought an iPad in 2022 just so I could use the ten dollar program Procreate. I have been using it consistently for ~4 yrs. What did you like to do on your iPad? Did your version have apple pencil compatibility?
My favorite old electronics are a Geiger counter I have no idea if it’s calibrated or accurate, and an ebow it’s like a little metallic resonator you can put on a guitar with metal strings to make it sound like it’s played with a bow like a violin, cello, etc. I’ve also got an old tablet too but not 16 years old that’s retro maybe at this point.
Anything juicy yet shareable from whatever notes app iPads have?
One of my favourite things when resurrecting old devices on my side is reading stuff I obviously thought was important enough to write down, but not important enough to carry over to a new device.
I found a bunch of great shit on my Cybiko from middle school
I swear to god, everyone in my life straight up forgot the Cybiko existed, and I’ve now seen multiple people on Lemmy who had one.
I really, really wanted it. They had some at my local department store for like a day then poof, gone forever. Still salty about it.
Don’t feel bad about it. They sucked, even at the time lol
Sadly, no, I had it factory reset by my family :,) Last time I used it, I was around 4 LOL
Found a Powerbook 180 from ~1995 in mint condition! I mean, battery is cooked, but other than that it is original and without problems!
Been using my dad’s MacBook from 2009 (that he had obtained from a pawn shop long ago) as a secondary laptop. Had tried to update the existing OS, but it was too old, Apple had already abandoned it, so I installed Linux Mint XFCE. Now it’s modern again. Slow as hell for some tasks like browsing the web, but it’s the memory that’s the bottleneck, planning to go from the stock 2GB to 4GB or 8GB soon, which will fix that, possibly another SSD later too.
Did something similar to a 2012 MacBook Pro. It has enough ram to handle LMDE (slowish, but still). It would be my daily, but those things are too heavy for backpack travel.
Edit. I did swap out the HDD for an SSD. Still stock battery, which can’t hold a charge worth anything, but a replacement costs more than I paid for the whole MBP.
There’s an old tower of mine in my parents house last used in 2003. Next time I’m there I plan to pull the HD and see what’s on there, recycle the rest.
The HD crashed and I had to reformat maybe 3 months before it got mothballed, so not expecting much. But it might be worth the $15 for a cable.
I found my original 4GB iPhone from 2007 recently.
It’s sitting next to an inherited Commodore Kim-1 from the 1970s that’s older than I am.
