Weekend Open Forum: What legacy hardware do you still use?

/troll Physical media IS dead /troll

cant really call ps/2 legacy until USB runs NKRO native for keyboards.
I have a Leopold TKL that I use the ps/2 for, to have NKRO and wouldn't have it any other way.

At the library I worked at they use parallel port laser scanners exclusively to check all books in and out.

Same as above. I love tech, so the last thing I want to do is hold onto old hardware and contribute to holding back its progress.

Still using a Microsoft Optical Trackball I purchased back in 2000. I have another in the closet if this one ever dies. Best peripheral I've ever owned.

I'm still using my X-Fi Fatal1ty PCI card from 2005

ps/2 mouse and keyboard

(I don't really know if the ps/2 port is a legacy hardware since it is still found even in today's z77 mobos.)

Does my eMachines T-5026 count? There seems to be some novelty claimed for an eMachines still working after 7+ years......

You know, tech forums aren't akin to Roman Catholicism, wherein "admission absolves guilt"...... Trolling is just plain wrong, which is why I've enjoyed it these many years

I have a paper shredder that still works very well and it is at least 15 years old. I have lots of old computer hardware from the 90s piled in boxes in a spare room. As for legacy hardware I still use, I have a Pentium 3 hooked up as a file server, it still works well and fast running an old version of SUSE... Apart from that, I have no other old computers actually running.

Nothing I can think of. Sure, I have lots of old stuff lying around, but nothing really old in use. Just looked up the release date, and the Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 may be the oldest thing that I still have in use.

my pc is 6 months old so...my phone has to be the oldest piece of tech I use. (iphone 3G).

@guest above, wow! your iphone 3g is "old tech"?

still using my nokia 7210.

The current running oldest setup is an Athlon 3200+ Socket 754 with 2 GB on a 160GB IDEand a Souhnndblaster Audigy Radeon X1600 AGP video dual booting Ubuntu and XP. It does run much better under Ubuntubut will actually play rather well with 'some' of the games I have with Steam on Windows.

I also have a server running an Athlon X2 3600+ but that has 4GB RAM and current uptime of approx. 6 months on an old Freenas install. It never seems to giver off heat and just keeps on servin'.

An old rig with an Athlon xp 2800+, 1GB of DDR-300, Asus socket A motherboard and a radeon 8500 LE 128MB (old school!). Also an audigy 2 ZS Platinum in my rig and some other audigys, 3.5inch floppy drive, track ball mouse, IDE HHDs, GeForce 7600 GS though that's not really legacy, and some other stuff! I love the old school hardware!

I have a USB floppy drive for my disks that I had on my 1st PC from 1989... If Only I could find one for the larger 5.25 disks ... I have a bunch of data and software I would like to try and transfer... I'm not sure if the data is still there but I'd really like to try.

Packard Bell IIJ-8568-QJ-cc (not so old, it is a Pentium, and came with Windows 95, now running Fedora)
You can't get the wood for them, you know...

I am still using as my main machine a Dell Dimension 8250 P4 2.4Ghz Intel Processor with 512Mb of Samsung RDRAM. It includes the original 128Mb G-Force Nvidia 2x AGP Video card w/VGA via a DVI adapter hooked up to a 17" Dell Optiplex CRT monitor and 10/100 NIC and a 56k modem along with a 24x CDRW and USB1/2 ports which I use to run my Logitech 2003 wireless keyboard and mouse combo . Also upgraded to wireless Draft N PCI wireless card in 2004ish. This is all running on Bios A04 and Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP3. It is slow but I use it only for internet (mostly Facebook) along with Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007.

My other machine is a Dell Dimension 2400 1.6Ghz 758Mb Ram all the rest is the same as above with exception it only has USB 1 ports, and running PS/2 mouse and keyboard.

They both still work and maybe a little slow compared to today's technologies but I can't afford anything newer!

Now that I would say is legacy!

My desktop, which is my living room computer it controls surround sound + HDTV, still has 2 IDE based DVD-RW drives. I got them back in like 2004 or so before SATA was the main standard for DVD drives too and I just never found a reason to get rid of 2 drives that did their duty reading and writing.

Why would you waste a SATA port on a device that can't saturate an ATA-66 port anyway?

I used to go out of my way to buy IDE DVD drives. I figured that would free up a SATA port I could use for a HDD.

There just getting harder to find nowadays, and they're a couple of bucks more than the SATA drives

Exactly. I have one of those around too, but I'm still using a pci x-fi extreme gamer.