I own a model electric train that was built in 1937. So, 88 years young?
Runs well, it’s kinda weird to think that this was a toy and this level of build quality was normal. To be fair, it wasn’t exactly. This was a high end toy aimed at affluent teens and young adults. It would have been equivalent to buying a new PlayStation. But still, I have trouble imagining any toy you could buy today that would hold up like this.
oldest electronic
Electronic WHAT!?! Choose a noun, son.
I suspect this is the (non-word) singular form of the noun “electronics”. If there’s a better term for such words, and you let me know what it is, I will give you my thank.
Gizmo
I have a battery operated tube radio from mid to late 1940’s. It even works, but the battery it uses is getting rare and quite expensive. And my country doesn’t really use AM radio broadcasts anymore, so it’s more of a curiosity nowadays.
I also have a lot of working stuff from the 1950’s, mostly radios and amplifiers. Great gear, and much easier to service than their modern counterparts.
Fully functioning Commodore 64, monitor, 2 floppy drives, printer, and several joysticks.
My husband has a collection of obsolete technology. The oldest thing he’s got in there is a VT100 terminal.
Original Gameboy.
Still works.
Hah, you stumbled upon one of Lemmy’s weird UI quirks. If you start a line with a number and period, it assumes you’re making a numbered list. But that period is placed at a specific indent, so long numbers spill off the left side of the screen.
- Here’s what it is supposed to look like.
(Adding a line break here)
- And here is what happens when the number is too long.
It only works with 8 numbers or less though, because 99999999 is the highest value that the numbered list supports.
I have a radio from the late 30s, though not in working condition. And a radio from 1961 that I use regularly
250 MHZ analog oscilloscope from HP
Sinclair Microvision MTV-1. It doesn’t work though. First released about 1978 according to Wikipedia.
Found it in a thrift store in a small town with a single stop light, in the middle of nowhere. That’s also where I got my sealed copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 on 5 1/4 floppies. Total cost $7.
I have an electric singer sewing machine from 1964 and another one from around 1950. Amazing how well they work.
Extremely old singer sewing machine gang unite
They aren’t even my oldest machines. Just the oldest ones that use electricity
They will last forever.
The machines probably yes. The little electric motors will probably need replacing eventually though.
Hi Enrique! (°▽°)/
1950s oscilloscope
heck i bet that is awesome looking. Does it still work?
Donkey Kong Game & Watch (1982)
1983 Lenco LRP 5450 DD record player &
1998 Yamaha RX-496 RDS stereo receiver
My father-in-law got them for us 2nd hand for a joint present. Quite a decent system!
Not a real audiophile, but it works well and we enjoy it.
I also made a Google Home kind of thing out of it using an ESP32S3 that uses ESPHome, Home Assistant, and Music Assistant to make it a Spotify connect node to play Spotify through it, control it with an IR blaster, and use Voice Assistant with it if I am not too far (it has a single mema mic)
1980 Sony trintitron crt TV that still works. Got the N64 hooked up to it.
I have a bunch of mid-century Roberts radios that I’ve convert to smart speakers (using the original speakers and, where possible, the amplifiers) if that counts.
