Ah, technology, obsolete as soon as you buy it.

[Denninmi]

Bought an iPod Touch in late August. I love it.

Just got an e-mail from Apple, "Introducing the new iPod Touch, thinner, bigger display" etc.

[HopeHoops]

1. Dude. I've still got a VIC-20.

[qnr]

3. Nice, I still use my 8-bit Atari computer too. nt

[Denninmi]

4. Ah, fun, fun, fun.

That was my first computer, in like 1978!

A technological marvel in its day.

[qnr]

5. 1980 at least :) nt

[HopeHoops]

9. About when I got my Apple II.

[whistler162]

6. So do I, Epson laptop with 20 or 30mb of hd space

[HopeHoops]

10. Megabites? MEGABITES? I installed a Corvus hard drive with 5 MB the size of a microwave oven.

That was a SHITLOAD of space at the time. The 33 MB Nestar weighed about 100 lbs.

[whistler162]

11. These young whippersnappers don't know

what it was like in the old days.

Used to carry my Kaypro II portable up hill both ways to work in 3 feet of snow and this was during the summer!

I still have several tubes of SIMM's and a APL chip for a IBM PC in my "collection". My first computer job was with a IBM 370/135, gads I am old.

[qnr]

13. Hah, allow me to show you my KIM-1. 8-digit, seven segment LCD display, 256 bytes of RAM, and a hex

keypad LOL.

[HopeHoops]

15. You forgot "barefoot".

Yeah, I remember a conversation shortly after my buddy got the 13 sector to 16 sector upgrade for his Apple II. We sat around pondering ways to cram more onto a floppy disk and calculated that it MIGHT be possible to get an entire megabyte on one. This resulted in unstoppable laughter and actually rolling around on the floor. Then again, it's almost certain that we were stoned at the time. It was only a few years later that, yes, the 3 1/2" DS disk came out with 1.44MB of storage.

[geardaddy]

2. I still have an iPod nano from 2006 or so.

It works fine.

[mwdem]

7. I still have mine, too.

It works just fine. My husband got it for me when I went through chemo. It was a godsend, and it's still ticking!!

[geardaddy]

12. Yea!

Glad to hear you're still ticking!

[mwdem]

17. Thanks!

[Ptah]

8. Yes, obsolete.

[kentauros]

14. I think in the opposite direction with my technology:

How long will it last?

[hibbing]

16. I wait

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Hi,
It sure does. What I try to do is just wait and not get the newest and biggest right away. Many years ago I put off getting a digital camera because they would come out with new ones with more pixels every six months. I eventually got one that wasn't the most advanced for a very reasonable price, but was a heck of a lot less than a camera with the same specs would have cost a year earlier. I did the same thing with HDTV. So, I may be behind in technology, but at least I'm not paying so much for the newest when the newest will be outdated in six months.

Peace