Wait, we still have the Pfaff 230 sewing machine of my Mom from the 1950s!

She bought it in her twenties ans still used it into her eighties... truely a good buy lasting a lifetime!

Atari 2600 console, tho it doesnt work anymore sadly. #RIP.

I also have a huge typewriter from the 80s in the office. It doesnt work either, but I keep it there as an exhibit... or something. Cause it looks cool. 

Cool old tech! We do still have some cassette tapes, no idea where the walkman went. 

My parents still have their super 8 camera, projector (needs a new belt, tended to slip when I was a kid), and box full of 8mm film reels. Also a box full of slides and an old slide projector.


Sadly the old pinball machine my grandfather had was sold to a shop.

Thanks to the internet and playing on it for most of my youth, recognized it on image search :)

1970 Dipsy Doodle it was




The oldest piece of tech I wish I owned lol. (Although where to put it!)

I was always fascinated with the inner workings, often played around with it with the glass off, back panels off, door open. Using my fingers to trigger stuff to see what was going in inside. Mechanical tilt mechanism was simply a metal ball on a rail, so if you lift up the pinball machine it would roll backwards and complete a circuit at the end triggering tilt shut off. I love those mechanical anti cheat solutions :) (And of course put that ball in play too haha, more chaos)

Fire. Or a wheel. Not sure which is older tech.

Add me to the Atari 2600 club; got mine second hand for next to nothing in 2009, coming up on half a century old now but still works, even if it's a bit temperamental. 

Also have some cassette tapes of my Dad's from the 70s.

Oooo, good call. Not sure I'd call fire "technology" so much as a natural chemical reaction. The earliest evidence of the wheel dates back to around 3300-4500 BC apparently.

I was kinda referring to the device itself though, not the concept, unless you have a wheel from the late Neolithic. :P

I think I might have some relatively old coins lying around somewhere. If not, it's probably something I inherited from my dad, if you can call almost worthless stuff that... Maybe some books or something.

Ah yeah old books, plenty of those around. Old photos, photos of great grandparents in particular. Maybe I still have some old toys as well, my kids played with some of the toys I grew up with, with some of those been passed along from my dad playing with them while he was growing up.

Yeah, I bet a lot of people have much old stuff like that. Curiously I don't, but it is what it is.

My great-grandfather made the table I am sitting at, does that count?

Not quite what I had in mind when I made the thread, but I can be flexible haha, about how old is it?