And tell me how proud of it you are.
i have speakers from somewhere in the 1980’s made in the soviet union
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Probably the 20-year-old microwave.
I bet it works better than the new ones. I had a 40 year old microwave at my last rental flat and it was like the big muscly shiba inu from the meme. New microwaves are the crying little shiba inu.
Video door-phone from the eighties. The screen is crap but hit a few times and it works lol
Dynaco ST-70 stereo tube amp, probably from the 60s (no date on them that I can tell).
Very proud of it, got it for free at a garage sale. Replaced selenium rectifier with silicon diodes, a few new caps, and new tubes. Sounds great.
a core 2 duo full tower pc from mid 2000s
first it had win95, XP, 7, now runs void Linux
I have a Core 2 Duo laptop from 2007 running Void Linux too!
And another Core 2 Duo tower PC running Arch Linux.
Core 2 Duos still have some life left in them, and they’re extremely cheap nowadays. I think I got the tower PC for 13€ second hand, and I’ve hosted countless things on it without problems.
Two game boy DMGs, one kept original and one modded with a new shell, membrane, and LCD screen. It’s a great hobby restoring them.
An electronic typewriter that my parents bought when I was entering highschool in the early 90s.
While my first works of fiction we’re not written on it, my first fiction I ever submitted (it was rejected btw) to a publisher was.
I wouldn’t get successfully published until the late 90s/early 00s after I had built my first PC out of scrap parts and a cheap copy of windows 95.
But that typewriter still holds a special place in my heart.
Was it a Clark Nova?
I gave up writing when I was ten. Too dangerous.
My toaster, similar one here. It was the toaster that I grew up with. My father in turn bought it at a garage sale. I recently tracked down the history and found that it was manufactured in the 50’s, so it’s been in near constant use for around 75 years.
It’s not too exciting, but I’ve got an old Lenovo EMC2 NAS that’s probably from the early 10s. I was also running a Pi 1B as a DNS server until it gave up on life.
My N64. I probably have a few pieces of tech older than me, but I can’t think of them off the top of my head.
I have a PC from 2004 as well.
I know this isn’t what you meant but, this week I restored a large format photo enlarger from the 1950s. A Beseler 45 MCXR. I am extremely proud that I was not electrocuted, and I printed a 4x5 negative as a Christmas gift for my mother in law.
Definitely counts, and I’m glad you lived to tell the tale!
Technically speaking, it’s the 2TB platter drive full of games that I’ve pulled from computer to computer over the last 15 years or so. Everything else has failed or become obsolete, but it’s still kicking, miraculously.
You do have that backed up, right?
I mean, it’s videogames, and Steam Cloud is a thing, so it’s not a huge deal, but…
It’s either my alarm clock or 5.1 speakers, both of which would be somewhere over 20 years old.
The oldest thing that runs on electricity in my house is probably a tie between my washer and dryer. Both are Kenmore 80 series from the early 90’s. I’ve repaired them a number of times and will continue to do so.
I also have a late 90’s vintage Magnavox tube TV which is in working if slightly twitchy order. I set it up every now and again to play SNES games on. The picture’s gone slightly orange and depending on what’s being displayed there’s a notable coil whine, I’m sure it needs to be recapped.
I still have my original SNES, it doesn’t work and I’m not sure why. One of its controllers and all but one of my old cartridges is still working. It’s not going to be long I’m going to have to change the batteries in the games. Weird to think my copy of Link to the Past has had RAM turned on and running for 33 years straight.
I’ve still got my RioVolt mp3 CD player. The in-line remote died but the machine itself works fine. I’ve had it since 2001. I’m very fond of it.
As far as computers, I still have my high school HP Pavilion desktop, and it does still barely boot to XP, but I don’t use it for anything. I have a Dell Dimension with an old 3-digit Core i7 circa 2009 that does still see some use as it’s supported by modern Linux and yet it’s got old shit like a PCI slot, optical drives, firewire, extrenal SATA, so it’s a useful tool to have around if I have to play with Dubya-era electronics.
Weird to think my copy of Link to the Past has had RAM turned on and running for 33 years straight.
Outstanding!