Thread 106299171

What's the oldest piece of tech you own that you still use?

I have a 1957 Helvar Sonetta, a Finnish-made tube amp radio. It has an audio-in connection on the back, and made an adapter for it so I can play music on it with a mini jack.

>>106299171 (OP)
I have a small ricecooker bought back in 2014

>>106299343
Ricecookers really peaked in 1945

>>106299363
They were improved.
They just never got used to cook rice again.

>>106299171 (OP)
1960s heathkit oscilloscope. Been ~10 years since I needed it but I still keep it handy.

>>106299611
Pics

>>106299800
Excuse the filth, it's not stored in the best spot

>>106299948
>sideways
FFS
Let's see if this fixes it

>>106299171 (OP)
Atari 800 from 1979.
for the yearly trip down memory lane retro gaming session

>>106299982
>so what draft angle do you want
>"yes"

some wharfedale speakers from the 1970s I think they were my grandpas so could be older, they still work like a charm

>>106299958
4chan used to support image rotation, but they started stripping exif ages ago because cameras started recording GPS coordinates in exif, and people were too dumb to remove them before posting. now 4chan could selectively exclude gps metadata or include rotations and colour profile metadata, but 4chan always picks the dumb solution

I have a fan heater from around 1985 that's still going strong.

>>106299171 (OP)
Philips CD104 from 1984. It was one of the maybe first 10 or first 5 CD players ever made. Took me a few days to get it working since I got it broken, luckily it only had well documented issues. Recapped it too for good measure. It's only real fault is the lack of remote and headphone connector, I'm considering exchanging it to an equivalent Marantz.

Upside is that it uses a transport mechanism that's basically indestructible, it's a giant iron plate with the read head being moved by magnets instead of plastic tray with easily deforming plastic cogs. Can play original cds, burned cds, burned rewritables, even broken discs. It's a monster.

also have some other 90s hifi gear.

>>106299171 (OP)
I had a 1946 Electro-Voice cardioid Crystal microphone hooked up to my PC for a while until my friends got sick of it and one of them gave me a Blue Yeti.
In their defense, the electricity in my house is about the noisiest power imaginable so I could only get the microphone to be usable through a prototype version of Nvidia RTX voice running on a 1070 and that's particular version of that program has a bug where it will just randomly produce Extremely Loud ear rape through your microphone for no reason whatsoever and I think I gave all of my friends PTSD with that.
It didn't really sound that bad though.

I have other stuff, my cars are both 35 years old, I have an old wringer washer on the back porch that still works though I don't really use it, the dryer is probably from the '70s, the stove is probably from the '70s too, same with the toaster oven, I have a '90s toaster, my keyboard is a model M from the '90s, and the gas stove I sometimes use is probably from the 40s?
Some of my electric trains are postwar Lionel, so that's cool I guess.

>>106300073
>90s hifi gear.
I also have tons of this!
There is an old Victrola upstairs, a gigantic AM radio, which is sitting on top of a black and white cabinet tv, but I don't know if any of those work just yet.

>>106299948
Come on, turn it on and show us a waveform.

not my pic but an onkyo integra ta 2044, mine is dated from 1985
its been restored and calibrated and i use it to play even modern cassette releases off of bandcamp fairly regularly

>>106300376
>onkyo anything still working after 40 years
a miracle. my experience with them is mass failure

>>106300266
Can't be fucked to dig it out right now so here's a video I recorded at some point in the mid 2000s

>>106299171 (OP)
Early 70s desk fan. Makes a hell of a buzzing noise when it starts, though fairly quiet at full speed.

>>106299171 (OP)
I still have one of these from when I was a kid

The oldest item I own that can still be used and qualified as text is my Snider-Enfield rifle made in the 1860's.

my oldest radios. from left to right:
Radione R2 ~1940
Lorenz 200W ~1938
Signalbau Huth 82W ~1929

>>106299171 (OP)
>snow monkey technology
very impressive

>>106299363
kek

Early 1940s field phone like pic related, oldest tech I use daily is probably my 80s Sony amplifier.

Bicycle invented in 18th century