The oldest tech you still use

[MGibster]

I've got some speakers my dad bought in 1982 that are still in use today.

 

[Lanefan]

Most of my audio setup is fine Radio Shack equipment from the late 1970s. Still works, but doesn't get used much these days.

A lot of my still-working music gear (keyboards etc.) is late-1980s vintage, cheap at the time and not worth much now.

I'm a huge fan of Sony MD technology from the late 90s-early 00s. Best physical (as opposed to digital) music storage ever, and the little portable players run for ages on a single AA battery. Best of all, they'll record via analog cable straight from a stereo, you don't need a damn computer getting in the way.

 

[MoonSong]

Still upset my dad threw away the old TRS-80. I would power it back up every few years and it still worked. But then he went through a big de-clutter project and threw it out.

My Dad would keep his brother's Atari ST (I guess a 520 FM model) around the house. It was the first computer I got to use and learned to code on it. One day my uncle came and took it back. I still miss that machine. It was my first computer love. (The second one was a small Lanix Netbook that accompanied me through college until it finally died out. The keyboard/trackpad ribbon cable got so damaged to be unusable and it would no longer detect the battery. It got recycled last year. The current one is a Thinkpad x140e running Linux)

I just want Retrogames to be done with their fullsized Amiga replica to move on to the ST.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

A spoon.

 

[Echohawk]

I still have my (working) Commodore 64 from the early 80s, and my (working) HP scientific calculator from the mid-90s, but can't say I actually use either of them regularly. Probably the oldest tech still in regular use is a USB 2.0 charger with eight ports. That thing has been in nearly daily use since somewhere in the early 2000s.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

We had an old Apple laptop for business use that I had eventually loaded with a couple of old FPS games. We junked it at a tech recycling place last summer.

…and 2 days later, I realized that I could have wiped the business stuff from the drive and completely repurposed it as a retro gaming device.