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Why Do We Love Weird Old Tech? (hackaday.com)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@suppo.fi to c/retrotechnology@lemmy.ca

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One of our newer writers, [Tyler August], recently wrote a love letter to plasma TV technology. Sitting between the ubiquitous LCD and the vanishing CRT, the plasma TV had its moment in the sun, but never became quite as popular as either of the other display techs, for all sorts of reasons. By all means, go read his article if you’re interested in the details. I’ll freely admit that it had me thinking that I needed a plasma TV.

I don’t, of course. But why do I, and probably a bunch of you out there, like old and/or odd tech? Take [Tyler]’s plasma fetish, for instance, or many people’s love for VFD or nixie tube displays. At Supercon, a number of people had hit up Apex Electronics, a local surplus store, and came away with some sweet old LED character displays. And I’ll admit to having two handfuls of these displays in my to-hack-on drawer that I bought surplus a decade ago because they’re so cute.

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[–] Amuletta@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Don't think it quite qualifies as weird, but I still use the CD player that I bought in 1983. It still works well and it's dead simple, so why not? I think the receipt from Eatons is still around somewhere. It's a bit too late to return it though.