1980 Sony trintitron crt TV that still works. Got the N64 hooked up to it.
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Sinclair Microvision MTV-1. It doesn't work though. First released about 1978 according to Wikipedia.
Found it in a thrift store in a small town with a single stop light, in the middle of nowhere. That's also where I got my sealed copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 on 5 1/4 floppies. Total cost $7.
I have my grandmothers iMac G4. Just an interesting looking from the days when Apple made interesting looking things. It still works but itβs really used for anything.
Probably a Cowon iAudio mp3 player from the mid aughts. I might still have a Philips cd mp3 player from the early aughts. Ooh in my garage I have Sony PC speakers from 2001.
I own a model electric train that was built in 1937. So, 88 years young?
Runs well, it's kinda weird to think that this was a toy and this level of build quality was normal. To be fair, it wasn't exactly. This was a high end toy aimed at affluent teens and young adults. It would have been equivalent to buying a new PlayStation. But still, I have trouble imagining any toy you could buy today that would hold up like this.
250 MHZ analog oscilloscope from HP
Fully functioning Commodore 64, monitor, 2 floppy drives, printer, and several joysticks.
A TI-99/4. I need to find an old tv to hook it up
I've got an old TRS-80 in stored-in-a-leaky-shed-for-40-years condition. I can also lay my hands on an AM/FM radio that I think dates to the 70's.
Empire State radio, R52
I have a radio from the late 30s, though not in working condition. And a radio from 1961 that I use regularly
oldest electronic
Electronic WHAT!?! Choose a noun, son.
I suspect this is the (non-word) singular form of the noun "electronics". If there's a better term for such words, and you let me know what it is, I will give you my thank.
Gizmo
atari vcs (from before it was rebranded to atari 2600)
My husband has a collection of obsolete technology. The oldest thing heβs got in there is a VT100 terminal.
1950s oscilloscope
heck i bet that is awesome looking. Does it still work?
I have a battery operated tube radio from mid to late 1940's. It even works, but the battery it uses is getting rare and quite expensive. And my country doesn't really use AM radio broadcasts anymore, so it's more of a curiosity nowadays.
I also have a lot of working stuff from the 1950's, mostly radios and amplifiers. Great gear, and much easier to service than their modern counterparts.
I have a bunch of mid-century Roberts radios that I've convert to smart speakers (using the original speakers and, where possible, the amplifiers) if that counts.
So many old computers & calculators here.
I have an Apple IIe, but at the moment it's at my friend's place. What I have with me are a bunch of Thinkpads: a barely working X60, a fine X200 with busted battery, and a combination of 20 and 30 series ones I am currently using.
May I insert some additions of analog here?
I got a Rotel RA-04 audio amp from 2006 from my dad that I am currently using, and I'm sure there are older stuff where it's from.
Aside from that, a Yaesu FT-60 FM transceiver made in 2004 still running strong.
One of the Play it Loud Game Boys (the red one), it's as old as I am
Original Gameboy.
Still works.
Hah, you stumbled upon one of Lemmyβs weird UI quirks. If you start a line with a number and period, it assumes youβre making a numbered list. But that period is placed at a specific indent, so long numbers spill off the left side of the screen.
- Hereβs what it is supposed to look like.
(Adding a line break here)
- And here is what happens when the number is too long.
It only works with 8 numbers or less though, because 99999999 is the highest value that the numbered list supports.
I have an electric singer sewing machine from 1964 and another one from around 1950. Amazing how well they work.
Extremely old singer sewing machine gang unite
They arenβt even my oldest machines. Just the oldest ones that use electricity
They will last forever.
The machines probably yes. The little electric motors will probably need replacing eventually though.
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Donkey Kong Game & Watch (1982)
1983 Lenco LRP 5450 DD record player &
1998 Yamaha RX-496 RDS stereo receiver
My father-in-law got them for us 2nd hand for a joint present. Quite a decent system!
Not a real audiophile, but it works well and we enjoy it.
I also made a Google Home kind of thing out of it using an ESP32S3 that uses ESPHome, Home Assistant, and Music Assistant to make it a Spotify connect node to play Spotify through it, control it with an IR blaster, and use Voice Assistant with it if I am not too far (it has a single mema mic)
My original gameboy colour
I believe itβs my Atari 2600! I canβt think of anything older that Iβve got that runs on electric juice.
I cleaned up when I moved, so the oldest gadget I have right now is a 15 year old MSI laptop, still happily running with linux.
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I still have my original Pikachu gameboy color, and it works. Somehow the battery on my Pokemon Red hasn't died but there's nothing useful on it.
Not electronic, but I have a pre-WW2 era windup clock that still works. It's loud af and built like a tank
The first generation Pokemon games all used significantly less power to maintain their RAM battery saves than Pokemon Gold, Silver, and Crystal by virtue of not having a real time clock constantly ticking the power away. RBY saves only needed to maintain the power for the save itself and did no additional work on top of that.
Original GSC cartridges would last about 10-15 years, whereas RBY could last 20-30 years. We're currently in the span of time where many RBY cartridge batteries will be failing but it's still possible to find ones with functional original saves on batteries just barely holding on.
Many people like to try using physically larger batteries when doing replacements, but most of them don't realize the batte ries aren't losing charge at the end of those many years because they're drained and out of power. RBY saves use so little power from the battery in the cartridge that they won't fully drain it after 30 ish years. Instead the battery saves fail because the batteries themselves fail after 20-30 years. Picking the larger button cell batteries won't help since they'll still have the same total lifespan and will still lose charge at almost the same rate as the spare batteries that weren't installed in your cart ridge of choice.
Either my TI-99/4A, or if it still works, the IBM 7072 that I got from NYIT for $200 in 2000.
i have an old magnavox TV from the early 70s, with the wooden slat curtain thing you pull in front of it.
Old 8 track players,
my great grandfather was an electrical engineer and made some custom lighting controls in wooden boxes, with dials and meters and switches, he did made it all for his church!
from that same grandfather, he had some portable reel to reel tape recording stuff, an old portable projector that comes in a cast iron cowl.
tons of stuff that everyone makes fun of me for holding on to.
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Bulova Accutron from the 60s. I also have a Heathkit oscilloscope which I think is of similar vintage.
A Hitachi TRK-3D8 boombox from 1986 - you can see it sitting above my retro PC here.
I got that for 12β¬ on eBay and that was the best deal I ever made. It has great audio range, the subwoofer packs a mean punch and it looks awesome. It's the perfect device for a drum&bass enthusiast. Just put some batteries and a Bluetooth tape in and you can even take it outside (it's quite heavy, though).
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