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Thread: Share your favorite old technology and explain why it was and is a good invention

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    Some great choices. I will add the vacuum tube because it is extremely clever, I can actually understand how it works, it resists damage from electromagnetic pulse, it requires high voltage and gets super hot, it sounds good in audio equipment, you can see its cool innards, and it glows in the dark like a tiny campfire.
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    Cause it starts with a tree and turns the curls into garbage and turns the flat parts into a boat that people will pay to see 500 years later.
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    Great thread.

    HP 15-C Calculator. They were made from 1982 - 89 with a rich engineering feature set, including the use of complex numbers and matrix math. They also used the Reverse Polish notation input processing method, which at first will drive you nuts but once you get it, it's a thing of beauty. As a simple example, with RPN, to add 4 + 3 you press "4", "Enter", "3", "+". The 15C also has a very nice form factor, big enough to use easy but very compact as well. Oh, and the batteries last forever.

    The 15C was so popular that there was a campaign to have it brought back, which HP did, 20 years later. Originals are going on ebay for up to $300, well over the original price.

    Some links I just dug up:
    http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp15.htm
    http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/pscmi...data_sheet.pdf
    http://hp15c.org/
    http://www.ebay.com/ctg/HP-15C-Scien...ator-/92845674
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

    awesome, I am going to be looking for a good calculator on the market soon !



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    The Google G1.
    The very first Android phone, ever.
    I was thinking about adding one of the early Android phones here myself. I actually passed on the G1 but got the second every Android, this was long, long before most anyone knew what Android was. What was great about these old phones is that they were really optimized for user experience- today's Androids are more optimized for revenue generation, with a healthly dose of privacy loss to go with it. A new Androids can blast you with marketing and make you agree to a dozen non-privacy policies. It's sad.... but I guess that's why more root them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainAmerica View Post
    awesome, I am going to be looking for a good calculator on the market soon !
    You can't go wrong with a 15C. Really, think about how crazy this is- a calculator that is over 30 years old (in design) selling at all, much less for such a premium.
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    Gutenberg and other groundbreaking 1st millenium presses-the interenetz of their day: The Chinese invented movable type first, but that tends to be a footnote in history books.
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    Our basement freezer is well over 50 years old. Pretty much pushing 60. Also had an Oster blender from when I was little. The motor died in 2006. The thing was at least 33 years old. Probably 35 or 36.

    Well, maybe not inventions in the sense of this thread. Okay, I like the wheel because it was good material for Johnny Hart's comic strip.


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    Quote Originally Posted by NorthCarolinaLiberty View Post
    Our basement freezer is well over 50 years old. Pretty much pushing 60. Also had an Oster blender from when I was little. The motor died in 2006. The thing was at least 33 years old. Probably 35 or 36.

    Well, maybe not inventions in the sense of this thread. Okay, I like the wheel because it was good material for Johnny Hart's comic strip.


    I loved "B.C." when I was a youngster.
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    Marine Chronometer
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    Typewriter.

    NSA proof.

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