The oldest tech you still use

[MarkB]

What's the oldest piece of technology that you've owned from new or nearly new and still use? For me, I have a clock radio I've owned for somewhere in the region of 40 years that still wakes me up every morning. It has a red LED digital display, and is old enough to have a built-in cassette tape player, though I no longer have any tapes to play in it.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

The lever and the wheel.

 

[DammitVictor]

I move too often to have owned anything for forty years. Most of my computer hardware is 5-6 years old. My sidearm was manufactured in the 1980s, but I bought it ten years ago; my car's a 2001 model, but I bought it four years ago. Been using the same wheelchair for six years.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

What's the oldest piece of technology that you've owned from new or nearly new and still use? For me, I have a clock radio I've owned for somewhere in the region of 40 years that still wakes me up every morning. It has a red LED digital display, and is old enough to have a built-in cassette tape player, though I no longer have any tapes to play in it.

You mean like a specific item that was made when the technology it uses was new?

Nothing older than a decade, for sure...maybe nothing at all. I had a discman when portable cd players were a new thing but that thing finally died decades ago. Didnt get a smart phone early and certainly domt have my first one.

Damn this is kinda depressing.

Like i have old stuff, but i got it all thrift or second hand. Or a few things that are older than me but obviously those dont count. Hell my grandpas old pipe is older than me. Still, pipes werent new when he bought it! Lol

 

[Sacrosanct]

I have a corn dekernerler that was my great grandpa's that I still use every summer. If we're talking electrical with computer parts, probably my original NES from 1987. (I have a walkman and our original Intellivision that are older, but I don't use them hardly ever.)

 

[el-remmen]

I used my iPod until last year when it finally died for good.

 

[Gradine]

I have my PSP alive and kicking and it still works incredibly well as a handheld emulator. It's great.

 

[Richards]

Hmmm, I have a stereo that plays LPs and cassette tapes that I still use. (Oddly, the CD player in it broke.)

I still have and use a Hotmail account.

Johnathan

 

[MarkB]

You mean like a specific item that was made when the technology it uses was new?

More or less. Mostly I was trying to specify something you've used and owned for a long time, rather than just something old you acquired recently.

 

[Ryujin]

I've got a 40 year old drill press that I bought, new, as an "open box" from Home Depot.

The wall clock in my room is more than 30 years old. It was the clock that I "watched" so that I could leave work bang on 5:00pm. I took it right off the wall when I got laid off a job, when they were closing the branch of that computer manufacturer. It still works. The office chair, that I took at the same time, broke within 5 years.

The bar fridge in my bedroom is one that I bought at the next place I worked, with employee discount. Total of $60.00 and it's still going strong, though undoubtedly far less efficient than a new one would be.