With the news that the mighty 3310 is due to make a comeback, what other technological orsumnezz did you have in the dim and distant?

Auto-reverse! Dolby! Presets! Waterproof! HUGE! YELLOW!

Olympus XA. Manual focus, aperture priority, pocket size. Terrible battery life…

The spreadsheet was actually quite good.

I had all my contacts on mine, the back up battery went flat and then accidentally knocked the main battery off the back and lost them all.

LOL. I had one of those walkmans. it was one of a long succession of the things.
i remember mine coming off my belt as i flogged my raleigh montage along the road to some banging tune ( zz top or something 😀 ). the music suddenly stopped, and i looked down to see it bouncing along the road somewhere under my bottom bracket. i picked it up, plugged the phones back in, hit play, and off we went again. 😀

Indestructible:

Ah, the Model M. Fine piece of engineering.

Another Psion lover here – I had the 5. Brilliant design, modern tablets could learn something from it.

There is no spoon….

Palm Pilot.
Still have mine in the “gubbins” drawer, due to sentimentality value.

That 7110 – you seem to be confusing “awesome” with “gimmicky shit.”

(-:

Gimmicky shit = awesome in my book.

🙂

It certainly felt awesome at the time.
I agree that it wasn’t the pinnacle of mobile phone perfection however.

As far as I am concerned that title belongs to the 8210.

After that, mobiles just got unneccessarily larger and more complex.

I agree that it wasn’t the pinnacle of mobile phone perfection however.

Because that was the Nokia 6310i.

Great thread. My stereo and walkman back from when I was in secondary school:

I agree that it wasn’t the pinnacle of mobile phone perfection however.

As far as I am concerned that title belongs to the 8210.

I preferred it’s successor, the 8310, though it looked like crap. They did a “business” edition though, the 6510.

… which I owned. Agreed on the 6310i though, one of the greatest phones ever. Could get signal on the moon.

^ I’m still using one of those JVC hi-fi’s!

How about these in the 1970s

Also, found this image recently on one of those ‘photos of the week’ sites

We still have an 8310 as an emergency spare. SIM card won’t fit it anymore though

Also, found this image recently on one of those ‘photos of the week’ sites

You need to add this to the picture as well.

Also, found this image recently on one of those ‘photos of the week’ sites

smartphone… and a printer 🙂

Another Psion lover here – I had the 5. Brilliant design, modern tablets could learn something from it.

+1

We still have an 8310 as an emergency spare. SIM card won’t fit it anymore though

you can get adapters for pence.

I agree that it wasn’t the pinnacle of mobile phone perfection however.

Because that was the Nokia 6310i.

so much very this.

Now, if we’re talking calculators…

Still got mine, though. I occasionally wear it for about a week, until the batteries die again. But it can do calculations on time itself!

I got a Minitel when I lived in France, what a thrill that was.

not so dim or distant, but still orsum

10 yrs young and still works well, silly sock puppet cover has kept it pristine (even though it’s down 1000’s of miles in a camelbak) battery life is around 24 hrs. Substance over style!

I still have a Sony Professional Walkman.

Oh and a turntable 😉

I was the first kid on my street to have a 59-6-1.5T

That rocks!

Another Psion 3A owner, I bought one back in 1995 along with the matching tiny printer when i returned to college to do Mech/Electronic engineering as i thought it would be handy, it was very handy indeed as i mostly played the golf game whilst in boring lessons 😀 , seeing as the course was mostly maths and thermodynamics it saw a lot of use.

I also had a really tiny sony cassette walkman in the early 90’s which was barely bigger than a cassette box, it had dolby b, autoreverse and a direct drive motor but i can’t remember the model number, also had a pair of Koss Porta-Pro headphones to go with it – the combination was just awesome at the time and a wonder of engineering – wish i still had it for nostalgia reasons.

My first SLR was a Zenit 11 and I wanted this kit so badly.

Had both the 7110 and 6130i, had the 7110 not been dual band I would have got another after mine was stolen (was travelling lots at the time). Pretty sure I was rocking a 6310i when I met my missus almost ten years ago, was sick of the weak modern ones.

We still have a 3330 “punishment brick” for if we break a phone.

Technics 1210 MkII

Was orsum then and still orsum now.

I *loved* this thing. Used to take it on Camping Club weekends and actually carry it around on my shoulder. Dad wasn’t best pleased as it took six mahoosive batteries, at not inconsiderable expense.

Balls, I was going to say Technics 1210 Mk. 2, but got beaten to it.

They are/were/will be the best turntables. FACT. (and not a jamba-fact either, a true, proper fact)

Somafunk’s post reminds me of another device in the gubbins drawer:

Another Psion 3 owner here, I distinctly remember doing a part dissertation on it (for a course I was on) plugging it into the printer network and the Uni IT Bod going “wow! That’s some piece of kit”
Loved the spreadsheet, word was a little tricky IIRC but functioned well.

I know someone who still uses his occasionally for network protocol something or other..

Utterly brilliant and very ahead of its time.

Calculator, the one and only – still in use

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I could add a Psion 5 to that photo