• Vaggumon@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    Fully functioning Commodore 64, monitor, 2 floppy drives, printer, and several joysticks.

  • ptc075@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    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.

  • vaionko@sopuli.xyz
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    13 hours ago

    I have a radio from the late 30s, though not in working condition. And a radio from 1961 that I use regularly

  • timkenhan@sopuli.xyz
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    17 hours ago

    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.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    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.

  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    I believe it’s my Atari 2600! I can’t think of anything older that I’ve got that runs on electric juice.

  • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    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

    • MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      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.