Is anybody else fascinated with New Old Stock?

[Symarip]

Someone just now pulled out of our supply closet a zip drive from the early 2000s. It's still in the wrapper. I can't take my eyes off of it. That thing was cutting technology ten years ago.

[bluesbassman]

1. Depends on the category. Some of it is old stock for a reason.

Musical, motorcycle, and automotive new old stock gets my attention. electronic not so much.

[Symarip]

2. Right.

Me being a musician, bike rider, and an owner of a 62 Falcon, I completely identify with your items of choice. I could definitely put to good use a mid 50s King 2B Supersonic trombone in perfect condition. But old technology makes me nostalgic. Especially hardware. I don't know why.

[bluesbassman]

3. I agree.

The problem I have is a tendency to be a packrat, so I've got to be careful when I see some shiny old piece of hardware that I "could" find a use for some day.

[old mark]

4. Been that way all my life, don't expect to change now - In fact,

I recently returned to selling some of my aquisitions on eBay - made a few hundred $ so far.
My retirement business!
NOS electronics tend to become usless junk very quickly.

mark

[grasswire]

5. you do know that we have a topic for ebayers?

you oughta share your experiences over there with us.

[old mark]

6. I was there for a while, at least lurking. Forgot it was there.

We had a previous eBay business several years ago, did pretty well for parttimers. I just started again a few weeks ago, and I'm not very happy with all the new regulations they seem to have enacted.
I will visit the ebay forum here again.

Thanks.

mark

[mitchum]

7. Indeed...I am a gear queen and tinkerer

Got some absolutely beautiful NOS VU meters last week

[no name no slogan]

8. I still have one, in working condition (the 100mb version)

I think I still have some of the disks around, too, somewhere. That was the only way to move around graphic files a decade ago.