I have a 5 year old 4GB "first generation" nano which works perfectly so much so that I've never seen the need to replace it. Surely just charging it up and connecting it to iTunes will do the job?

My old Rio Karma - a very good mp3 player, regularly beat the iPod in published reviews, but sadly died a couple of years ago, at which point I splashed out on an iPod Classic 80gb.

And my trusty old Psion 3c, the point at which Psion couldn't go any smaller and was soon outmanoeuvred by Palm and RIM. The 3c had a whopping 2mb of RAM.

just take of a snap of spare room I'll have think.

These are still clogging up my draws at home.

That Psion was brilliant, plus old Palm and very old Compaq iPAQ. But where are the chargers?

The one with the buttons over the clickwheel. 40GB and still going strong on its second battery. Though I understand that newer ones surf the net, play games, do all sorts has anyone actually claimed the sound reproduction from the machines themselves have improved (headphones notwithstanding).

here's some of the cutting edge...
I don't keep everything contary to what it must like and all these work. If you click on the pic there's more notes on flickr.

I have a drawer in the garage which is effectively a gadget graveyard. I shall endeavour to take a photograph when I get in.

Recently passed, sadly missed, always in my heart.
Apparently they don't like being immersed in coffee. Who would have guessed?
Anyone know where you can buy second hand ones?

First portable mp3 player seen in our household, a Christmas present to the wife the best part of a decade ago. Check out the fact that she could now listen to 2 hours - yes, you heard me, hours - of digitised music. Cost: the same cash outlay these days would probably buy you an 8Gb iPod Nano, but that's progress for you.

....from his bottom drawer.
It's an IRiver Multi Codec Jukebox.
It does lots of brilliant things.
Want it?

but something close to my heart at the moment (if not my wallet).

Has anyone any experience of getting ipods repaired? Got two nanos, one about 5 years old not so worried about repairing but another less than 18 months old and screen has a constant lock symbol on it so cannot do anything with it. Have tried all the tips on tech threads, still hooks up to itunes OK but cannot select or do anything with it. Both of these have the same problem!

Are they worth sending away to these sites you see on the internet?

Has any other format had such a short lifespan? This was cutting edge for about three weeks - but when? I think I brought this in 2001 or 2002 - but I can't be sure. Not long after my purchase someone showed me an Rio MP3 player and although I didn't immediately realise the error of my ways it didn't take long. In an attempt to make my good on my outlay I tried using it for recording interviews - but truth be told it wasn't very good at that either.

I've got one of these. 5 years old, 20gb storage, still in daily use:

My trusty ol' Creative Zen Xtra. Says 40GB, but I upgraded it to 120 a few years back. Five years service, and only semi-retired, when I got a Blackberry in July.

Our wedding music, playlists for friends parties, guest mixes for various websites have all been compiled and curated on this not-so-little cracker.

This is a rubbish photo of it, but you get the idea. I love it and use it, but perhaps not as often as I should.

as well:

http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/what-will-you-leave-your-great-gra...

if I can locate the contents of our calculator "museum" I might take some pics, for now I'll just say we have an HP35
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/13/hp-celebrates-35th-anniversary-of-hp-...

Nokia Communicator

Apple Newton

and an Ericsson R380

(and a dead U2 iPod as it happens)

there was an issue of Q (I think) many years ago which had a minidisc-style format tipped-on to the cover. About 3" square. Might have been a minidisc now I think about it, although I remember it being fatter.

The idea was you were supposed to take it down to your local hi-fi emporium where they would demonstrate it for you.

Anyone remember this? I won't be offended if it turns out I've made it up

but I also have one of these:

I actually learned how to use the chording keyboard when I used it as an prganiser (early 80s?) but over time I used less of the organiser functions until it ended up in a box. It still works though :-)

how do I get a picture to show up in my posts? I've found a picture on Google images of my prized piece of deadgear. I know the address of said picture. When I pasted it into my message and previewed it, it showed as a link. How do I make it show as a picture?

I use this on most days. Unlike the shiny one in the pic mine has 25 years of grime on the keypad. It costs about £7.50 to change the batteries every 5 years or so. My local watch repairer smiles as I explain that I'm sentimentally attached to it

Thanks for the help Lenny & Chris G. I knew there was a FAQ and spent a while looking for it, but how would a mere mortal know where to find it?

The only mobile phone I've ever owned was a Siemens S25 purchased in March 2000 from the flagship Virgin Megastore on London Oxford Street.

It had a reassuring weight to it and, unusually for the times, a three colour screen. When you switched it on it played a short animation of a clown juggling.

One of the phone’s features was the ability to compose ringtones on a very basic recreation of manuscript paper. It was around this time that I attended a series of lectures at Gresham College in Holborn, where the pianist, Joanna MacGregor, demonstrated John Cage’s prepared piano and (along with five other musicians) memorably recreated Steve Reich’s Music For Six Pianos.

I remember a lecture where she played one of Béla Bartók’s Hungarian folk sketches. Afterwards photocopied sheet music was passed around. On the train journey home I attempted to program it into my phone. This was before polyphonic ringtones. The end result bore a strong resemblance to the music that accompanied the side-scrolling beat-‘em-up arcade games of my youth.

The phone never got much use. I have a small circle of friends who I see occasionally, usually on a one-to-one basis. I can’t remember the last time I made a phone call that wasn’t work-related; I have no use for unlimited texts. The last time it was charged was at the beginning of 2009 when I signed on at the Job Centre and needed to be easily contactable. I put the number on the top of my CV along with the rest of my contact details. Everyday I would send off copies to potential employers. None of them ever called back.

A quick riffle around my desk conjurs up a number of Palm OS things, and my first computer. The calculator I used for my GCSE's and Nokia are still in daily use.

Any outdated stuff I don't use gets chucked. I still use this all the time, though. Purchased in 1982, saw me through 'O' and 'A' levels, haven't touched any of the complicated keys in about 25 years and, frankly, can't remember what most of them do now. Natural logs are now what I get from eating to many nectarines.

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This one is dead... but not for long.

Soon my studio will once more echo to the bit from the beginning of Heart Of Glass, New Muzik's Luxury, most of OMDs first two albums, and a lot more besides. And that's BEFORE I programme anything new into it :-)

I have an ancient radio with a remote control at the end of a VERY long cord. My first VCR had one of those as well, only the cord was much shorter.
My washing machine of 25 years just packed it in. I'm guessing that the new one that I just ordered won't last longer than five years at the most...
And isn't it funny how something always breaks down as soon as you're getting a little extra money ? My tax refund arrived the same week as the washing machine died...almost exactly the same amount that the new machine will cost me! Well hoo-fucking-ray...

I really hope not

Unlike my memory. Can't remember when I bought the bloody thing.

http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/1306/oldgameboy002.jpg

Alongside a white iPod spookily like Heppo's (and just as knackered) is this lovely brick of a phone. You might recognise the design as being even older than Mark Ellen's model. The considerable bulk is augmented by a special long-life battery pack so heavy that it subsequently needed taping on. Not bad for the then Deputy Editor of Stuff magazine...