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[azhdragon]

On FB a friend posted a link to a question: what is the oldest piece of tech you still own

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[sioneva]

I have a digital display clock radio (still perfectly functional; the clock itself has a digital display but the radio stations work with a dial) from about 1987.

[quen_elf]

It's at my parents' and not here, but I'm pretty sure my first computer is still there and still working. Casio PB-80. Originally made in 1979 (though it was probably about four years later when I got mine). 544 bytes user RAM. 12 character display. :)

I just moved office at work, because I'm now part of the IT department. Not entirely happy about this, but there does appear to be some kind of (manual) punched-card related device on a cupboard near me, which is pretty cool. Almost as old and more annoying, there's also a fax machine. Which people appear to still use. What? (I honestly heard the 'modem connect' noise and assumed it was somebody's ringtone.)

[makovette]

I'll leave my slide rule out of this :P

Mako

[dharawal]

In the spare room is a box with what I would assume is a still working acoustic coupler from about 1981 ish I think.

There's a fully functioning C64 also in the same box from 1983.

Paul has an old elsi mate calculator from the mid 70's that still works.

[walks_far]

I see someone has an old radio. I think mine is an "Elder Radio". AM - shortwave, RCA, wooden cabinet, all tubes, speaker does not have a permanent magnet . . . electromagnet. Dunno how old it is. I listened to radio comedies and dramas in the early 50's. I think my parents bought it to listen to WW II broadcasts from overseas.