Tough Tech: What Ya Got?
Posted in Cool by Evan at 2:55 pm
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The video is of a Game Boy that survived during the 1990-1991 Gulf War on display at the Nintendo World Store in New York. (No idea if it’s still there or what, so forgive me.) Seeing this has me wondering: What’s the toughest pieces of tech you have? Seems to me my old Nokia 1100 is way more sturdy than my Nokia E50. Are you using any older pieces of hardware just because of durability?
Well, i did have an old sprint phone that refused to die. Even after getting dropped out of a moving car, submerged in a hot tub, and being stepped and sat on, all that was broken was the battery would’nt hold a charge. I miss that phone, it was hard to see it be put in the drawer when i got a new one.
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We have a Nokia 6310i hanging around for certain occassions (Music Festivals, Beach trips etc….) which we just switch sim cards when needed, it’s indestructable and funny enough probably worth more than my everyday SPVC550, although just to use TomTom on it (SPV) is invaluable at times so it’s swings and roundabouts.
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i still have an old gameboy like that one. can’t say i play it anymore but it still works nonetheless. i’ve also got a vast array of old PCs that amongst all of them probably have less than a megabyte of RAM and a gig of hard drive space.
ahh the gold ole days lol
hmm…i have a tandy smplifier that came with a computer i had years ago that i use for my bedroom sound system……it has to be like…15 years or so old???
My oldest pieces of Tech that I am having around are my good old Sinclair ZX81 (Traded under the name “Timex Sinclair” in the US)
Black and white graphics, real huge BLOCKS of dots, no sound and a realy large 1024 bytes of built in memory.
I have bought it 1981 as a kit to solder by my own. So I was soldering with shaky fingers because 170 DM was a lot of money to burn for a boy of 13 years that has had to do a few jobs to earn the money…
This Sinclair ZX81 is hanging at the Wall of my office-next to my desk, in company of my second computer, the Sinclair Spectrum 16k, bought about one year later. Each is having the size of a cigar box.
And both are running well…
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Refresh the page, it did it to me too.
my nokia 5170i was tough, one time i was in the street when it falls, the battery pop out and a car pass over the cellphone, when i pick up, i just put the battery back and it start to work again… like nothing happens to it
TAC-2 joystick, no question about it. Toughest man made object ever made.
Highly Doubtful. The screen isn’t damaged but the rest is melted? I think not. Looks like an ‘art project’ to me.
i saw it there about 2 months ago.
My RAZR V3i was the toughest piece of tech I owned, it went through 10 foot drops to pavement to being lost in the sand at the beach, thrown full force at a rock after being pissed off and then finally put in a pint of Alexander Keith’s – chugged it then took it out. As you can see it was very beat up but everything was still fully functional until i got pushed in a pool with it which was its last straw haha
My V3 is mine as-well, I dropped it from the top of a squash court, battery cover fell off and the battery fell out, put it back together and it was fine
My Samsung A900 has been dropped many times. Especially from getting out of the car in a parking lot. It just so happens that it has grown an attraction to the pavement. And once it fell out of my pocket onto the driveway when it was snowing. I didn’t know it fell out until I tried looking for my phone a few hours later after it had already frozen into the ground.