Another ACDSee user. Version 2.41. I use it a lot everyday. I tested a newer version at one point. Went totally bloated. Deleted the new and went back the the old. It hasn’t been ACDSee as we knew it for some time.
Unfortunately, doesn’t support newer formats. That blasted .avif is a real headache.
I still play several games from the MS-Windows 3 era. Most have no date listed in the “About” menu but some have a date from 1992 including good old WinSpider. I have to run these via a VM thing.
My wife still used one of her old cameras after a long time, an OM-1 I think, now with a digital back. For a while she insisted the lens was better than the ones on cell phone cameras, apparently they got better over time, but she can still put different lenses on it and maybe finds other advantages.
3, Commodore 64- 2 in use, one parts, (with the monitor and disc drive). Echoing others, an HP 20s calculator that gets used for work multiple times daily. I love the tactile, positive feeling buttons and its overall usefulness.
Building elevator is from 1993 - it’s so old the company wants us to upgrade because some of the parts are no longer made.
We have other technology which is a decade (or more) older, but it’s sitting on a shelf, so not very engaging.
We had a 1980s alarm clock until we moved in 2000. I wonder if would still be working, if we had stayed in the U.S. It made no sense to bring it here due to the voltage difference.
Never thought of alarm clocks… mine’s from 1994, if that matters.
To be fair, the computing capacities of 1980/90s alarm clocks are very restricted.
For me, probably a jailbroken Wii I have from 2007. I may have a Macbook from that era that I occasionally use around here, as well. But neither seem particularly old to me. My main desktop is still a 2013 MacPro, even though I have an M1 laptop somewhere that my wife uses much much more than I do, even though I bought it for myself.
I’ve got a T2i. Finally, I have something old for this thread, since I cycle through my tech stuff as I get bored with its performance.
My T2i, though, although I’ve contemplated replacing it, I just don’t. It does the job, and it does a lot of things my iPhone won’t do. Of course, my iPhone does a lot of things now that my T2i didn’t do that the time, and when I just want to take snapshots and typical tourist photos and stuff like that, my iPhone is good enough.
However when I want to capture images that I regard as something that’s not a mere snapshot, I bring out my Canon. The resolution is fine; I’m not printing magazine articles. Its magic, though, isn’t the camera, but my collection of lenses and the ability to control the light manually. I have a lens that gives me the depth of field that I want, or the wide angle. I can choose a fast or slow exposure. I can do things my iPhone can’t do.
When I see people with nice Canons and the stock lens and the mode selector in auto, I think, wow, what a waste.
Oh, if alarm clocks count, I’m still using the one I bought when I got my first job in 1979. (It probably qualifies for the stupidest product design thread, in that changing the time requires pressing a button which only moves the time forward. If you overshoot, you have to run around the full 24 hours to get back to where you want.)
I still have the HP-35 that I bought in 1972 but sadly it no longer works. I probably wouldn’t use it even if it did since I have a better calculator (which I wrote) accessible on my phone.
Sounds like you’re much more of an… artistic(?) photographer than I ever was.
I mostly got a DSLR because I could change lenses as well, but it was more in the context of having a new baby on the way and a European trip planned (lots of dark indoor shots). Phones at the time and for that matter, P&S cameras had awful low-light performance. But the T2i had the capability to attach a few relatively cheap lenses that went all the way down to f1.4. Problem solved!
Of course, over time it’s turned out that cell phone cameras have advanced dramatically in that regard, and that it’s rare that I wish that I’d lugged the camera bag out for a trip.
I never have been into photography for its own sake; it’s always been a form of documentation to me, and not really an artistic medium. I can totally see how someone who’s into the artistic side of photography would still get a lot of use out of a DSLR of any age.
Until recently I was still using an old Microtek Scanmaker IIxe that dates to the early 1990’s, I think. It had an SCSI interface, and I finally replaced it a couple of years ago.
We still have the ‘Bogen Friday’ two-line digital computerized answering machine that I bought for my company in the 1990’s.
While not strictly a ‘computer’, I still use a Micronta digital bench meter (model 22-195) as my main multimeter. I’ve had it since the mid 1980’s, and it still works flawlessly. One of the best products Radio Shack made at the time, they are still in demand.