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posted by on Thursday June 15 2017, @11:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the obsolescence-was-never-so-fun dept.

The Verge bids farewell to tech writer and editor Walt Mossberg by talking to him about his favorite bits of gadgetry.

Walt Mossberg is retiring this year — he's already written his last column, hosted his last Code Conference, and taped the final episode of Ctrl-Walt-Delete in front of a live audience in New York. But Walt's also assembled an impressive collection of notable gadgets over his two-decade run as a reviewer and columnist, and we asked him to talk us through some of the more notable items as he cleared out of his office.

This isn't everything — there's far too much for that. But there's nothing quite like Walt talking about gadgets and what they mean, and we tried to pick a few that defined their moments in a way few products now seem to do.

[There are 16 tech items in the linked story's photo — how many can you identify? --martyb]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @11:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @11:09PM (#526670)

    Anybody still crank up their [ancient] Mac or PC [...]?

    If you wait too long, you could end up with a pile of junk.
    An electrolytic capacitor uses electricity to "form up" its dielectric.
    If you let those go too long without applying juice, the 'lytics can go bad.
    Slapping full juice to them can then cause them to rupture and puke their innards all over the place or just plain not work.

    If you have something really old and you value it, take it to an electronics repair pro before just plugging it in.
    Someone with a DC power supply can gently bring up old 'lytics that haven't been energized in ages and save a catastrophe.

    N.B. Things with switching power supplies are more tricky.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]