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curl-6 said:
Salnax said:

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?

He made it sometime in the 1950's, I don't remember exactly when. It's a bit interesting because it has a couple of flaps on the side you can fold in to make it narrower, so that's a couple of moving parts that I'm impressed have stood the test of time.

In terms of electronics, my household has a bunch of stuff from the 90's (an ancient laptop that ran on Windows 95, a Nintendo 64, a Game Boy Pocket, etc), but nothing that I'd consider outright ancient.



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1. A Remington Noiseless Typewiter, ca. 1935 (That thing is loud and weighs a ton...)
2. A HP25 programmable pocket calculator, early 1970s (49 programmable commands, not the bigger model with magnetic strip reader that cost a fortune at that time)



Off the top of my head, Nintendo 64.
I also have some VHS tapes and Vinyl Records (but not players from the 1980s) from the 1980s.



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1953 TV. Back when they were cabinets. It has doors to hide the screen since in that era electronics were meant to blend in with the furniture. I use it as a TV stand for my modern 4K TV. I used to own some 1960s transistor radios from my dad, but gave them to Leo Laport of Twit.TV ages ago. I have 3 90s CRTs. 2 are hooked up I use for retro consoles. A working VCR. Of course, all my old consoles from NES up to now. I have a 1999 Boombox that still works. My 1999 Phillips portable CD player, which I still use at home sometimes. A portable TV from Sony but can no longer get signals because it's analog. My Dell DJ MP3 player from 2004. 



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