The oldest tech you still use

The criteria I am using is complex machinery or electronics. Also nothing that was purchased as a piece of old tech. Mostly because one of us having a 150 year old bowl or screwdriver or bought an old Atari because you wanted to try retrogaming doesn't tell us much beyond that (what any of us using an iPod or a cassette player tells us, I guess I don't know either, but it still seems like a more interesting comparison).

Among regularly used (and not, like, my house), I think the oldest is some Fleetwood speakers my dad got when he left the army in '72. Of tech I first got when it was the state of the art or state of the market, I still have a CD player in my stereo cabinet from '94 that gets use whenever I pick up a CD from a local band.


Can you still get the Alpha Centauri mods? If I were to pick it up again, I'd want at very least a patch so the Alien Crossfire would include both alien factions in a random opposition game.

Of my own gaming, I am now regularly scratching my dungeon-crawling itch with the Unity port of Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall. I've also taught my nephew the joy of Scorched Earth.

No idea.SMAC community is still active. I bought it on GOG.
 

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My kid has more old tech than I do - he collects old video game systems. He has all the big ones from Atari 2600 onwards, and plenty of games for each. He's been collecting them since he was 10. He has lots of the wierd accessories, too, like the bongoes that you can (sort of) use to play Donkey Kong Country on the SNES.
 

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