Obsolete tech
Jul. 7th, 2015 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luckykaaAmongst my possessions I have an HD-DVD player, a VHS video recorder, a first generation TiVo, an Amiga A500P, a Palm TX and a scanner. Need to decide what to do with these. I do rather like the idea of being past-proof. ("Future proof" is a myth - not possible. Wait for the future to become the present and the technology will be cheaper than the future proof premium)
TiVo. Why do I still have this damn thing? It's obsolete and a total white elephant! Shall throw this one out, I think.
HD-DVD player - I can get cheap HD-DVDs of eBay (which was the entire point). Not sure if I want to. Perhaps I should replace my small collection of HD-DVDs with Blu-ray.
VHS video recorder - well, I have a huge pile of tapes somewhere. Once again I ask myself "Why!?". Because it is and was a good video recorder. But the odds of me remembering I even have all these videos is pretty remote.
Palm TX - Cool gadget, and it was a gift. Obsolete again. I feel very bad about throwing out gifts though.
Amiga A500P - I have an emulator! And this is a museum piece!
Scanner - This one annoys me. It's a perfectly good scanner. Theres nothing inherently wrong with the device. It just doesn't work with Windows 7. I could always just plug it into my netbook, scan from that and transfer. Is this actually worth the effort though? I could just spend £44 on a cheapest scanner I can find (and it will be more than adequate for my needs) and save the effort.
I guess I'm a hoarder. I get far too attched to the gadgets I buy. The end result is I have several boxes full of junk, that should really be taken to the dump, sold on eBay or given to a charity shop. Most of these gizmos, I haven't used in a long long time and still won't. I won't miss them when they're gone. Why is it so hard to part with these things?
TiVo. Why do I still have this damn thing? It's obsolete and a total white elephant! Shall throw this one out, I think.
HD-DVD player - I can get cheap HD-DVDs of eBay (which was the entire point). Not sure if I want to. Perhaps I should replace my small collection of HD-DVDs with Blu-ray.
VHS video recorder - well, I have a huge pile of tapes somewhere. Once again I ask myself "Why!?". Because it is and was a good video recorder. But the odds of me remembering I even have all these videos is pretty remote.
Palm TX - Cool gadget, and it was a gift. Obsolete again. I feel very bad about throwing out gifts though.
Amiga A500P - I have an emulator! And this is a museum piece!
Scanner - This one annoys me. It's a perfectly good scanner. Theres nothing inherently wrong with the device. It just doesn't work with Windows 7. I could always just plug it into my netbook, scan from that and transfer. Is this actually worth the effort though? I could just spend £44 on a cheapest scanner I can find (and it will be more than adequate for my needs) and save the effort.
I guess I'm a hoarder. I get far too attched to the gadgets I buy. The end result is I have several boxes full of junk, that should really be taken to the dump, sold on eBay or given to a charity shop. Most of these gizmos, I haven't used in a long long time and still won't. I won't miss them when they're gone. Why is it so hard to part with these things?
