Which technology from the past would you like to bring back?

Another thread about retro shit from people that did not even use it in the first place, hum?

Not fucking ribbon cables lol.

>>105601586 (OP)
ternary computers

>>105601586 (OP)
white people

>>105601586 (OP)
Not those. I hated those.

>>105601586 (OP)
IDE always sucked, SCSI was the king and it still lives on as SAS or well pretty much any interface involving block storage.

Modern PCIe 4x+ capable ExpressCard would be nice, I know that USB4/TB3+ allows PCIe passthrough but you still can't install anything internally besides meme laptops like the framework which still just use USB.

unironically RSS feeds

>>105601902
Lol. LEDs are so much better than the old light bulbs. My grandpa uses those old ones. Talks about Obama outlawing them. Those old ones get so hot and use a lot of electricity and resources just to make them.

>>105601888
The good thing about IDE was that it allowed you to have your nihonese Toshiba drive as Master and your gook Samsung drive as Slave

>>105604451
anon...

>>105601947
what would you use it for?

>>105601586 (OP)
CRT. I believe if we stuck to CRT all these years we could have extremely efficient flat ones.

>>105601902
These literally still exist dipshit.

>>105604451
gr8b8

>>105601586 (OP)
the macro program from windows 3.11

>>105601586 (OP)
>Ctrl + F "NASA technologies"
>0
NASA technologies

>>105601586 (OP)
Certainly not pata cables. What a fucking mess my first few pcs were because of these.

>>105604451
zooooooooooooom

>>105601622
chinese are bringing that back, saw in a lmg thread like a week or two ago
soviets were right kek

>>105604858
>>105601622
found it https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt1909

Physical media, forums, optane, headphone jacks on phones, SD cards on phones.

Headphone jack

X64 realmode and dma so software can talk to devices directly

transputers

Intel macs.
Yeah they were hot, slow, and shitty but I just thought they were neat. Also hackintoshing was pretty cool.

Activity/status bar LEDs on laptops. NVMe still has activity signal, but nooo, flashing activity LED is scary nowadays.

>>105601586 (OP)
For some reason those cables tent to fails randomly and then your disk start working in PIO mode.

>>105605366
i've heard people having panic attacks when a digital watch beeps on the hour or when a microwave dings when it's finished.

>>105601586 (OP)
and plastic bags, straws, life's little affinities that made existence that little more bearable

>>105601586 (OP)
well,a lot i guess

>>105601586 (OP)
I would like to see PowerPC processors in consumer devices instead of tranny-invented ARM processors

Things being built to last instead of built to break in 2 years to make you buy a new one.

>>105601586 (OP)
> ribbon cables
nah. they can fuck off. they were always a pain in the ass.
>Which technology from the past would you like to bring back?
FM synth chips.. but with many more operators and waveforms.

>>105601596
seems like it

>>105606230
riscv will eventually replace arm.

>2400 baud maximum
>Dial up only
>666 analog channels per cell tower
Limiting technology in those three areas would repair a very large percentage of current social ills.

physical keyboard on phones

>>105604546
I'm glad the technology died before we got flatshit.

>>105604546
crt were so fucking good.

>>105601586 (OP)
I use these everyday in my job (embedded)

i bought a new desktop computer system in February and it did not have floppy disk connector or a bay to put a 3½ inch floppy drive in

>>105608468
Are you talking about p-ata or just header connectors?

>>105606479
>FM synth chips
Would be nice, though they're very easy to do in software/FPGA
A 16+ voice YM2608 would be awesome

>>105608507
My bad, didn't know you were referring to PATA specifically. I was referring to ribbon cables with IDC connectors

VFD displays
serial terminals

>>105601586 (OP)
>Which technology from the past would you like to bring back?
off-line

>>105601586 (OP)
Floppies. VHS. Tapes. It might just be the nostalgia but those were some great times we lived in, it's a shame we only realize that after they're over

>>105601586 (OP)
Not that one, that's for sure.

>>105608722
i have an episode of spitting image i will probably never see again on a tape in storage.

>>105608612
I fucking love having to generate AC and 40V in my battery-powered devices.

>>105608722
If you want floppies back then you never used them. Nobody misses the slow transfer times, extremely limited space and general unreliability of that shit.
But I must admit the tactile feeling of using a floppy drive was very satisfying.

>>105601902
These are terrible and always were.
Annoying to replace and they do fail.
The ‘warmer’ sound which is actually just distortion can be replicated by a modern amplifier anyway.

>>105608818
I don't think I've ever seen a VFD in a battery powered device.

But having to generate AC and a higher voltage was something necessary for backlit LCDs since they used CFFLs before white LEDs became common.

>>105608722
All horrendous. If it is the time period you have nostalgia for then fine but these died for good reason.

>>105608829
i had no problems with floppy disks on my amiga and i used to by B grade disks too.

>>105608857
>I don't think I've ever seen a VFD in a battery powered device.
Because they're terribly inefficient.
>But having to generate AC and a higher voltage was something necessary for backlit LCDs since they used CFFLs before white LEDs became common.
Another terrible technology that some retarded zoomer will pretend to miss just like ribbon cables.

>>105608865
I had an amiga too as a kid, and I made sure to make copies of all my favorite games just in case the original floppies broke. Which did happen several times. Then again the games were all pirated on low quality disks anyway.

>>105608920
i was friends with people that collected public domain disks and was taught by them how to handle and use floppies and eventually optical discs so had zero problems with them other than using them as shuriken.

>>105608857
Didn't most calculators in the 70s and early 80s have VFD numbers?

>>105609702
I've never seen one. LED and LCD calculators already started coming out in the 70s, which is already before my birth.
The oldest calculator I personally own is an HP-16C with LCD, first released in 82.

>>105601586 (OP)
Saturn V

>>105609702
>>105609783
i got one somewhere from before i was born kek

>>105604546
Making crts thinner makes them worse
Damsung had some low pro ones in the early 00s

>>105604451
KYS zoomer

>>105609828
portable or a desktop unit?

>>105601586 (OP)
Is happiness a technology?

>>105601586 (OP)
Lisp Machines

>>105609845
portable, i would say the size of tjust the black part on that one >>105609702
i loved that thing when i was a kid, i need one day arrange that big drawer in which my mom threw everything

>>105609835
Not a zoomer here. Making something hot enough to radiate 1-2% of the energy you put in as visible light is just shit technolo/g/y.

I don't really want anything from the past brought to be brought back. I miss the times, I don't miss the limits.

When runescape came out in 2001 or whenever it was, it was incredible but after playing RSC in 2024 I realised no, it's actually not incredible, it was incredible for the time. This same logic applies to everything. Phreaking? Yeah, it was awesome BUT I wouldn't want to bring that technology back.

>>105601586 (OP)
Internet before javashit.
Documents should have never been given the ability to pretend to be a program.