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tessa_roberts1•2d ago

My Windows XP box booted in 90 seconds back in 2003, now it takes 22 minutes and I finally figured out why

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charlie_fisher45•2d ago

I told my brother his 2011 Toshiba laptop was junk, then we swapped the drive and it beat my new one at boot

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karenw90•3d ago

Rant: everyone says old ThinkPads are tanks, but the T440s I got from eBay had a swollen battery that bent the trackpad

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the_kelly•4d ago

My Windows 98 rig boots faster than my work laptop and I can prove it

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fiona502•5d ago

Went back to my old 2008 flip phone for a week and the battery thing shocked me

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sage_perry•6d ago

DAE remember when a 4GB iPod could hold your whole life, and now a 256GB phone feels too small?

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wren_smith44•8d ago

My 2006 iPod Classic hit 4,000 days of runtime on a drive that should've died in 2011

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riverp37•8d ago

Skip the $300 data recovery place on 6th Ave, my freezer trick got the drive spinning for 20 mins

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noahchen•9d ago

Thought that $3 'broken' iPod Classic from a Tacoma garage sale was a scam, turned out to be a 15 minute fix

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wyatt_ross27•11d ago

Showerthought: I swore off Windows XP on old laptops until my neighbor pulled one out of his garage in Tucson

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cole_bailey85•14d ago

PSA: Stop running that 20 year old router firmware, mine got hijacked in 3 days and I had to explain it to my ISP

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scott.mia•14d ago

A commenter on my retro game blog said my CRTs looked washed out, so I measured them

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cole_bailey85•16d ago

Paid $8 for a PS/2 to USB adapter and my 1998 Model M finally lives on my work laptop

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hugo_ellis•19d ago

Tried running my old Zip drive off a USB adapter and it ate my only copy of a 1998 demo reel

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dakota_rivera•20d ago

Spent 6 hours fighting a Zip drive on a Windows 98 rig just to move 40MB of old band demos

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