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What devices or equipment you own or had that doesn't have much use in the modern world anymore? (lemmy.world)

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When I was a kid my family owned a device whose sole purpose was to rewind vhs tapes.

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[-] HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Tape device so you can plug your phone into car stereos that don't have Bluetooth. Some cars just have cd deck/player and no aux input, no Bluetooth. Really new cars will have Bluetooth for phone control. Really old ones with cassette players you could use the tape gadget. Not so much in between.

Old flash drives, that were only like 1gb when that was supposedly sufficient back then.

Headphones with audio jack because most new phones have usb-c ports only now. Although I bought an adapter for only 10 bucks.

A/V cord consoles and devices.

I had a VHS rewinder too. Also that reminds me I had a mechanical "crank" playing card shuffler which would probably be an antique now. Lol.

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