Thread 509394469

Is there any technology from the 70s, 80s, 90s, that (((they've))) forgotten about that/pol/ still uses?

>This bad boy has never let me down

>>509394469 (OP)
I still use your mom

>>509394469 (OP)
i still use an iphone 8, i also use a hand crank butter churn to make my own butter

>>509394469 (OP)
I think 99% of the things in my house are still from when Aus use to manufacture shit.

Radio, fridge, freezer, washing machine, toaster, kettle, microwave, car etc

Had to have the electric motor on the washing machine re-wound, fridge re-gassed and new seals, but other than that this shit just keeps chugging along and it's outlived all the stuff my parents replaced it with when they gave it to me kek

>>509394469 (OP)
My 20s working life was spent waking up to these and just beating the fuck out of it with my fist to get the damn snooze button to work
Bad memories looking at these

>>509394469 (OP)
I still have my panasonic alarm clock -
had it since the late 90s.
still works.
buttons are starting to go though :(

>>509394469 (OP)

iPod, zune, Motorola Razor, kazaa

>>509394469 (OP)
My set is technically new, but antenna ears for free TV. Genuinely feels like it’s illegal but no, it’s completely free to access. Idk how they haven’t shut this down yet (actual pic of mine)

>>509395771
>>509395852
pol is a retirement home no wonder its filled with shitty takes, you're all boomer fucks

>>509394469 (OP)
Same actually, I use a GE alarm clock and turn off phone at like 8pm

>>509395994
owning something that lasts.
SHAME!

>>509395931
cute frens

>>509394469 (OP)
You can just use your iPhone as an alarm clock now

am I the only person who thinks smartphones are fucking amazing?

>>509395931
Guvment here requires TV stations to broadcast via terrestrial antenna, at least in one area.
I bet its some stupid regulation like that there, too.

>>509394469 (OP)
i took this from my dad's place after he died

>>509394469 (OP)

Yes, I still use my Talkboy to record memos for myself so I don't forget anything.

>>509396218
wow, thats nice.

>>509394469 (OP)
I've had a couple of these, although the display was green not red. You could set it so that the radio would wake you up instead of the beep. This sound right here takes me back in time immediately: https://youtu.be/aXieXlAbpQg

>>509394469 (OP)
I’ve had this clock since stumbling upon it 17 years ago for $1 in a thrift store. I enjoy hearing the light ticking of its gears throughout the night; I have a 50’s W. Germany Semca portable winding clock that is nice and loud, occasionally I use it when traveling or wanting to hear a louder rhythmic click.

The old GE keeps damn near perfect time, I’ve never had to set it between daylight savings time changes. And it’s alarm is LOUD.

>>509394469 (OP)
I use a old flip clock in my bedroom. It's nice, you can hear the gears and everything working if it's quiet enough.

>>509394469 (OP)
Smoke signal

>>509396251
it's called a sony dream machine, it's pretty comfy
was very dusty when i got it but a toothbrush and some rubbing alcohol brough it back fast

>>509395918
You can still use Kazaa?

>>509396277
>>509396282
Wild

>>509396282
those flips ones are really neat, i think i have one in a box somewhere

>>509396218
can you look up the model name? id love one

>>509396315
awesome.
got an eye on this one atm.

>>509396315
>>509396471

Oops missed your follow up thanks anon

>>509395852
If you feel like it, refurbing them is much the same as fixing the buttons on a worn out remote- just replace the conductive material by gluing on foil or even heavily coating it with pencil lead.

I use this magnavox for my N64/Super/NES

>>509394469 (OP)
I used to have one of those too. The loud buzzer alarm was about the only thing that'd wke me up

>>509396251
Fucking hell everyone here’s gotten so goddamn polite.

>>509396471
Sony Dream Machine ICF-C400 Dual Alarm Clock Radio Wood Grain

>>509394469 (OP)
With an accelerator card from mac effects and wifi thanks to a blue scsi v2 I can browse gopher holes and telnet into bbses like its 1990.
if this was the limit of computer technology I would be fine,

>>509396504
i think it's a Sony ICF-C400, from the 80s

>>509396444
You should use it. Being able to actually hear the mechanisms working should be advertised as a feature for any household items sold for the future.
Clocks and watches are the easiest things to go for when looking for this. It's not a watch from an earlier decade, but I wear an automatic watch for the same reason.

>>509394469 (OP)
Old alarm clocks are great. When it comes to alarms being less convenient to change is good. Fins one where setting the time is as unintutive and annoying as possible ans the only time your likely be fiddling with your times on that bitch is twice a year if it doesn't have a switch for daylight savings. It's not going to die overnight because you crashed out forgetting to plug your phone in, it's probably got battery backups if you lose power, and it's way louder so you can set it well out of reach where even to hit snooze you've got to drag your bones out of bed. It's a simple little thing but if your undisciplined and unorganized using an old alarm instead of your phone can legitimately help you get your shit together and improve your life. Old refrigerators and freezers are great too. Elegent simplicity there.

>>509396337
Lmao that is wild.

My radio/electronics workstation is mostly 80’s and 90’s equipment.

>>509396540
sweet.

>>509396603
lol

>>509396673
AND its on wheels.
glorious.

>>509396616
>>509396639

Thanks alarmbros!

>>509394469 (OP)
>I'm totally outjewing the jew with my archaic clock radio
omg stunning and brave

>>509396096
Thanks :D
>>509396125
Hey I’m not complaining. Antenna got me through some tough times when my internet was out. Real great and underrated!

>>509396282
These are so fucking satisfying to use, very tactile. Speaking of my grandmother still has a rotary phone with a dedicated little bench/seat arrangement kind like pic related.

Rotary phone was peak phone, you still had the ability to ring people on the other side of the country, but you weren't beholden to it or carrying it around in your pocket 24/7 and you actually had to learn peoples numbers.

>>509396996
The way voices sounded in those was totally different. It felt like the perfect was there in the room next to you, you could even hear breathing sometimes if I remember right. Cellphone calls feel dead, like robot piss.

>>509394469 (OP)
Of course but I will not tell you about it. I know all too well about Americans and their Johnny come lately always follow (((the crowd))) locust like natures. I don't want you big mouths and scum fucks to mess those things and hobbies up for me too with your drama queen bullshit and stupidity. So fuck off and just do what the jew tell you, you sheepy fags

>>509396218
Sovl

>>509396626
Anon, is that you with your many II’s, SE/30’s, and even a IIfx?

>>509396603
Right, faggot.

>>509394469 (OP)
>Power goes out
Sure some have batteries some don't. I use that as well as phone for days I need to get up on time. Usually just phone.

My grandfather was a builder in the 50s. I have his circular saw. It's a beast.

>>509396673
>>509397236
>>509396626


Post boomer battlestations

>>509395931
Because it's the free propoganda machine anon.

>>509396702
Lmao you should have seen me taking that TV cart from my old workplace, it was hell getting it out without being seen. They were going to have it hauled off for scrap and had a strict policy about letting people take shit home. So I held it against my chest by the top of it, and ran. LOL thinking about it.

My daily wear watch. Also have a nice Slava from the 70’s and a 50’s Elgin.

>>509397088
Checked analog phones tend to sound very warm and raw whereas digital stuff is heavily processed and filtered. It's the same when you're even just recording your voice. Record it onto something analog vs record it with your phone and the difference is insane.

>>509397333
I've still got ancestors hand tools from the late 1800's, the quality of the steel is something else, the hammers and anvils are especially good.

>>509397236
I wish, my mac collection is as follows
>Mac SE
>iMac slot loading (with a broken case)
>Performa 6290
>G4 Mac Mini (runs NetBSD and hosts my gopher server)
NetBSD is awesome by the way real old school unix vibes. it will also run on nearly anything

>>509397354
That’s an old ergonomic Microsoft keyboard to the left.

>>509395771
Man I had an OP style alarm clock for the first 30+something years of my life and I absolutely hated it, always had terrible sleep especially if I woke up during the early morning and glanced at the time, it would induce some kind of anxiety about having to get up.
A forest fire burned down my neighborhood and I had to go without a clock for a while and I slept better and found I always just woke up naturally between 6 and 6:30 am.
Getting good sleep changed my whole life health-wise.
TLDR: Fuck alarm clocks they are unnatural

>>509397689
I used to have a bondi blue iMac, loved that thing. I have my Apple IIc pictured above, an IBM Thinkpad 600E(PII originally, upgraded to PIII, 98SE SP3, for Half-Life/Descent/Unreal era gaming) which comes in handy often nowadays due to its built in serial port, an HP Vectra PII server I use as a firewall, and a DECmate III+ that I picked up due to its having a PDP 8e on a chip, full compatibility.

Saws bones part like a pro.

Want to play a game?

>>509398171
>DECmate III+ that I picked up due to its having a PDP 8e on a chip, full compatibility.
That is nice, very nice
I have had it in my mind to try and build one of those pdp simulators, basically a raspberry pi with a full set of lights and switches but that is way better

>>509395994
In 2025 if you're not raping and forcefully terrorizing women into giving birth and obeying you, you're pretty much a genetic dead end

>>509398389
Columbia University mentions having run BSD on their DecMates back in the day. It’s a neat quirky system I picked up for $40 and a drive to Boston. Someday I’d like to have a proper IMSAI or Altair, but for now(and the last 17 years), I’ll dream.

>>509394469 (OP)
bro that's the same clock radio my dad has woken up with since before I was born. I still remember when he would set it for 1AM and listen to Art Bell in the wee hours of the morning.

>>509398808
Reading about their Rolm dataphone network, wonder if it’s still operating? As of 2010:
The CBX itself is installed on the first floor of Low Library, in the center of campus. It consists of 10 CBX and 10 PhoneMail "nodes", plus disks, tapes, terminals, etc, and the Main Distribution Frame (MDF), where all 50,000 wire pairs from the Morningside Rolm telephone jacks terminate. It is administered by the Office of Communications Services (OCS), which is part of Administrative Information Services (AIS), which formerly, together with what is now Academic Information Systems (AcIS), formed the Columbia Computer Center. [NOTE: By 2010 all these organizations and acronyms are ancient history, in the neverending rounds of reorganization and rebranding, but the equipment itself is still where it was and still operational

>>509394469 (OP)
before digital alarm clocks like the on in OP image.
They had "flip" card thing, that performed the same function. All the hours, and all the minutes, would flip over.
Same exact style clock radio, though.
I inherited it from my older brother.
Everything still works.
This fucker was likely built in 1970.
Try getting that lifespan out of anything made today.

>>509399054
i wonder how much money a grey beard is going to collect when something finally goes wrong.
you hear stories about something like the bsd box that was an email server that got buried in a closet for a decade and still worked but things eventually break and when they do and are mission critical its an expensive fix

>>509394469 (OP)
I still have my dads general electric fake wood clock like that. Its from 1979, still runs fine and wakes me up every morning.

>>509394469 (OP)
Yes. A 400 sbc and a A6.354 Perkins.

Before engineered obsolescence.

>>509398910
> bro that's the same clock radio my dad has woken up with since before I was born. I still remember when he would set it for 1AM and listen to Art Bell in the wee hours of the morning.


Unbelievable levels of life kino

>>509394469 (OP)
Damn jews an their
>checks notes
unability to use alarm clocks!

>>509399379
honestly just before analog buttons disappeared into touch screens

i use an antenna for tv, some of the channels are based

>>509401356
It’s an untapped goldmine these days, whereas cable is now filled with “pay to watch” bloat channels, hundreds of them. basically advertisements.

>>509401356
Comet is about the only channel I can watch from off air antenna

>>509394469 (OP)

stole this from a hotel