What's the oldest, most eclectic electronic thing you own?

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It should be a gadget, or computer, or digital instrument of some kind. Not merely an appliance or tool that takes electric power.

For me it's a sony voice recorder that takes 2 AAA batteries. It's about 12 yrs old.

Does this count
It's a digital fm radio with torch function
You can wind it up or it's solar powered or USB and you can also charge a small device with it

It's fantastic so it is

The oldest thing I use is Technics SU-V45A, which is 38-year old (1987) Hi-Fi amplifier from gold era of Hi-Fi.
The oldest thing I got but use very occasionally is Panasonic SA-520, also an amplifier, from 1982. 43 bloodey years!

Good audio never gets old!

I've got one as well
It's got twin cassettes and you can load 3 cds at a time
And it's got FM radio
Surround sound and the lot

I think it was top of the range at one point

I reckon I've had it since towards the end of last century

I have a digital clock radio that I got when I was a teenager back in the late 80s/early 90s. Still works really well and I use it to this day.

I also still have a Sony cassette Walkman and a CD Walkman that I both got in 2000. One time not too many years ago when I was out listening to the CD Walkman when an older man came up to me and asked where I got it. He made me very uncomfortable.

I have an old 90s Sharp Memomaster electronic organiser. The screen is a bit dim now.
I still have my old Lenovo laptop thinkpad from 2004 that had XP on it.

Ooh - I forgot my Quad 34/306/FM3 preamp, power amp and tuner HiFi kit, released in 1987 so 38 years old and still going strong after a minor repair I did a few months ago (a blown X-class capacitor on the preamp and on the tuner, a common fault).

I'm shocked to see the silly money this kit is selling for on EBay.

...and my Thorens TD 124 II record deck plus SME 3009 series II improved tonearm: currently retired, but all functioning perfectly.

That deck dates from the early 1960's - call it 1963, so 62 years old; the arm dates from 1972 so 53 years old.

Both the deck and the arm are very desirable and highly sought after - again, selling for silly money on EBay.

The oldest electronic things I have that I still use at least ocasionally are my Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis 3, & my TI-86 graphing calculator. I'm not sure which is the oldest but I've had N64 the longest. I would guess that the TI86 would be the most eclectic of the three.

I have a 24hour digital clock I built around 1976 using an integrated circuit chip. The project was published in Elementary Electronics.

^ In a junk box somewhere around here, and not meaning to brag, I have a Nixie clock of about the same vintage which I designed and built using discreet components.
Not an IC in sight, but there's a lot of Veroboard!

Oldest thing I have is a atari lynx

I ought to get photos of some of this stuff.

I have a radar display circa 1950, a Pye Victor car transceiver (2m -all tube)

A Sony reel to reel B&W video recorder and camera, a colour VCR that takes cartridges with the reels mounted one atop the other.
A Sinclair ZX81 micro. An ASR33 Teletype (with the paper tape punch that I used to bootload my PDP-8) a pair of dual channel oscilloscopes, a tracking satellite dish.

Man I've got some junk.
It will be incredibly hard condensing my life to fit in a 20' container to move interstate.