![]() How much of today's tech junk will still be functional and usable 35 years into the future? It's a testament to HIGH-QUALITY components being used back in the day. These old and venerable devices still serve as useful place in my life. Still use regular push-button landline phones, flip clocks, nixie calculators, LED watches, and my Voxclock from 1981 still works and its electronic voice still sounds as cool to me as it did when I purchased it in 1981. The current emulators do a great job of making those machines "come back to life" on a modern system. Still have Apple II, Colecovision, and woody Atari 2600 systems which are all still functional, but I don't use them on a daily basis. Can't beat an old Infocom game once in a while. That software lives on in my DOS systems, and it is fast, mostly still relevant, and just as great today as it was back in the day. ![]() In case anyone remembers, there were THOUSANDS of great utilities and games written in the DOS days which simply don't work in Win 7/ Win 10 or MacOS. ![]() I still use several MS-DOS based PCs which I assembled from parts in the 1990s. ![]()
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