A ferrite core memory module, circa 1956 at a guess.
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2025
55 points (98.2% liked)
Asklemmy
49465 readers
616 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
My Nintendo dsi. Since 2009
Casio f-91w watch. Its like 6 years old now, so the battery only has like 4 more years left.
I'm still the original owner of one of these 1982 Pac-Man consoles. Actually, I thought it was lost for decades but my aunt discovered it during a basement clean out and gave it back to me. Last I checked, it still worked. But the volume is so dang loud that I remember I always had to play with it outside.
I have the Commodore64 my family got used when I was 8.
I've had it less long, but the sewing machiney mother bought after she left college is older than that.
And I inherited it even more recently, but also have my maternal grandfather's electric hair clippers from when he was a teenager, around 1960.
And I bought my house most recently of all, but some of the wiring dates back to 1926 (the house itself was built without electricity in 1880).
A Bell & Howell 8mm/16mm projector and a handheld super 8 video camera that belonged to my dad. I'm not sure how old they are but probably late 70s/80s. From what I gather, he was very much into manual film editing.
A panasonic lumix dmc-fz50 that I got from my mum after she got her new camera. It's from 2007, so not that old, but still, it's only three years younger than me. It takes pretty good photos for it's age, especially macro shots. It's biggest flaws are the display and view finder. The image in the view finder got yellow and foggy with time, to the point it's almost unusable. And the display is rather dark so it's no good in sunny weather.
Don't know if it counts, but my suitcase record player has vacuum tubes. Still spins but it needs a needle.
Our old pong console. I don't know if it still works because it's been boxed up for over a decade at this point.
Oldest in use? Probably my old texas instruments graphing calculator, but it's dying. I got it back in the early nineties for college, and my kid was using it last year with homework, but the screen is failing and it sometimes just freezes until you pull and replace the batteries. So only kinds in use, and barely hanging on.
My VCR is newer and still sees use rarely, but was used daily for a few years in the early naughties.
Wait! The phonograph! It's still functional and my dad got it in the early eighties, so it's older than the pong console, but I think calling it electronics is dubious, so I dunno if it counts. But it's the oldest functional electric powered thing we have that I know of.
Not entirely sure but this has to be one of the oldest and is fully functional.
4 channel mono audio mixer, with germanium transistors only
From the mid-sixties
load more comments
(1 replies)
I have a CRT from 1995. Aside from that, probably my dad's turntable which has unofficially become mine, or the Yamaha electric keyboard
Either the wood-grain radio with clock or a 1970s bubble-LED calculator
I have a lamp my grandfather made out of an old moonshine jug in like the 40s.
That sounds electrical, but not electronic.
Would a hand crank electric generator for a doorbell count?
Probably either my Olympus OM-1 or my Minolta SR-T 201. Both still work (the Olympus just needs some cleaning and maintenance)
Casio CZ-1 synthesizer, produced in 1986.
I have a Milton Bradley Microvision from around 1979, the first handheld game system that used cartridges. I have the block breaker game, it still works but I think some components are wearing out as the game speed feels way too fast. Thing takes 2 9V batteries!
Sega Megadrive from about 1989.
My speakers by far
Probably my Canon AE-1. Not sure of the exact year, but the model was made from roughly '76 to '84.
Got my aunt's rotary phone in the closet.
Not a full electronic per se, but I do have a heatsink from an old second gen IBM memory module.
My TI-84 calculator.
Lost a lot of cool old stuff in a fire a few years ago, so I'm guessing my original N64.
I've got my og NES.
20 GB hard drive from 2006.
Next year we're going to have a party for it.
A Nintendo64 with several game cartridges. It's a little flaky, but it still works for the most part.
I have my old Speak & Spell. It still works.
Probably my dad's electric turkey carver. It was a wedding gift he got in 1980
Fridge. Older than me
Probably some old radio, not sure of the date though.
my first computer. it's about 12 years old