Retro tech is becoming trendy again — and selling for big bucks

I have beautiful 1930's British telephone, fully functional and I intend to get it set up to feed into a VoIP system so I can continue using it once BT finally decommission the old telephone systems.
I also have a perfect condition last (and best) model of the Sony MiniDisk Walkman, smaller than a floppy disk but holds more music at a higher quality than CDs, I'd really like to get an iPod classic to mod for better storage, I never got into music streaming and prefer a dedicated music device.

wifi free is the best thing now a days..government cant take that from you

got my vhs player and walk man with tons of tapes.. also i have my batman animated series on vhs..its like 10 tapes hahaha

as a gen z american I have a sony walk man the same model from guardians of the galaxy and it works so well and I love it

Retro games dont have microtransactions shoved down your throat by money hungry corporations and publishers who dont respect their customers, and theyre all more original than the same publishers riding IPs/franchise names to death with sequel after sequel

Edit: forgot to mention the people who overprice retro games because theyve become rare or popular due to fads, such as pokemon, where when i was younger bought pearl loose for like $8+ shipping, its now worth easily $80. My black 2 that i got at release for $40/50 is now worth over $100. I remeber when you coukdnt give away pokemon games, all the gba ones were $5 at garage sales and used to be a max of $30 at Gamestop. Then theres the corrupt grading system where its essentially a ponzy scheme that manipulates dingus collectors who dont know anything about the market to misvalue things, buying over priced graded games driving up the cost of normal ones or making moneygrubbers grade everything

Thanks to Gen X.

Bet the guy with all the tvs and vcrs is a bachelor. Or divorced.

Well they kind of force the CDs on us and then they held his captive as they drain their pocketbooks with skyrocketing prices

make friends with a scrap shop guy & you get most of these durt cheap. You need to have some repair skills though

Yep, generation X are the new grandparents

I still use that so called "Retro Tech" daily.

I've been buying a lot of retro tech lately. It satisfies my nostalgia and lets me show my kids the technology I had at their age. I'm tired of corporations telling me what I can and can't do with my stuff.

Trendy again? Always has been

well, I bought my old secondhand in good condition Sony Walkman for less than 50$

Offline was the key word to joy !

I love the Internet and the way you can use it to communicate and the way you can use it for both work and creative projects. Not everything needs to be online all the time though. A single-player game shouldn't have to be online, and I've recently started building up my physical movie collection again now that it seems like almost every movie is on some obscure little streaming service I don't subscribe to.

The revolt against "smart" technology begins

You vill own nothing and be happy – Uncle Klaus

I miss the 80s and 90s soooo much

No ads no subscriptions. I stay physical media

You can ask for that much doesn't mean anyone will pay.

Old technology is nit being tracked by corporations and companies to sell you stuff. As a you person who hates advertisments, old technology is peace. You aren't tracked on your cassette or record player and assaulted with ads.

I still have my walkman from 1982
Still works
I have my moms rotary ohone from the 60s
I threw out the vhs because it broke.

I just got into record players and vinyl records last year

the fact that tech today is legit a subscriber license the company can revoke any second isn't cool.

Things I love the most about my retro game collection…the products are mine, there is no DLC to worry about, they can’t be edited by a company to appease trolls online, and no one gets to monitor how and what I play in order to sell me more product.

Time to go through the old stuff drawers.

BECAUSE OF QUALITY

I never got rid of mine! I have a box TV, turntable w/ massive record collection, cassette tapes, VCRs, videos tapes, walkman, boom box, stereo tape dubber, Atari 2600 w/ 220 games. Don't need to buy it all back!

"a fool and his money are soon parted" … i'll get a beta-max machine at a garage sale for $1 …. and resell it to a stupid sucker for $500 …. because its TRENDY ??? …. i wonder if i can resell a copy of "duck hunt" for $500 ??

In reality, most of this 'retro tech' is substandard. It was never meant to last, and much of it is unrepairable, if it fails.
However, I'm well into vintage cameras, but unless there is a MASSIVE sway to have these made en masse again, we will always be scratching around in yard sales.

But, if it makes you happy………………….

They’re called VCR’s.

My first desktop computer got fried during a lightning storm.

Take it back to the days of the original RadioShack and shortwave communications

Need an old dial phone and a reel to reel

The problem with buying digital media is that at any given point the owners of the copyrights can decide to block users from accessing it. It's already started to bee seen more and more in all platforms that people who have paid for tv series and or video games no longer have access to those catalogs.

interesting, we've a lot here in Africa. unfortunately no market here.

I have six rotary dial phones. Got em for $1 each.