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30 Sep 2019, 7:04 pm

i have a 1950s era green toy train, needs restoration, that goes [or went] "CHOO CHOO!" and went in odd irregular circles on the floor. been 5+ decades since i'd last seen it in action.

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01 Oct 2019, 7:38 am

I've got an Amiga CD32 console from 1995, which I haven't used for at least 15 years. These seem to sell for high prices on Ebay these days.

Also quite a few old laptops - I'm writing this post on a 2002 T23 IBM Thinkpad.

My cooker belonged to a distant relative, and must date back at least to the 1960s.

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01 Oct 2019, 8:09 am

a 1960s Dual turntable specialized for 78 rpm record playback.

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01 Oct 2019, 8:42 am

auntblabby wrote:

a 1960s Dual turntable specialized for 78 rpm record playback.

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01 Oct 2019, 5:46 pm

domineekee wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

a 1960s Dual turntable specialized for 78 rpm record playback.

I have been using a ton of old appliances and things just for the sake of getting life going:

Tailored some thrifted vintage trousers to fit me, using a 1952 Singer-
Wrote a novel on my 1927 Remington typewriter (talking to publisher soon...

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Shaved with antique safety razor & restored Ever Ready brush
Listening to music on late 1920s Columbia phonograph, and 1938 Crosley radio
Driving a 1990s Toyota daily

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01 Oct 2019, 9:29 pm

Borromeo wrote:

domineekee wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

a 1960s Dual turntable specialized for 78 rpm record playback.

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Shaved with antique safety razor & restored Ever Ready brush
Listening to music on late 1920s Columbia phonograph, and 1938 Crosley radio
Driving a 1990s Toyota daily

Any more?

Very nice collection and useful

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01 Oct 2019, 9:37 pm

domineekee wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

a 1960s Dual turntable specialized for 78 rpm record playback.

Wait.. did you say record ! Aswell as playback ?
Seriously cool stuff . Wow.. last time knew of existence of a recording record devise was about 3 yrs old , but those were 33 1/3 . Was too short to be high enough to actually look at it. Just observed from short status as my father and his friend were . Interacting with it . And recieved 2 discs as gifts , william tell overture and beethovens 5th. Later inherited several other discs of these types .

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01 Oct 2019, 9:40 pm

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Does the pre 1936 eyeglasses , hexagonal shaped glasses that am writing this with ,count ?

I'm sure we can bend the rules, they sound great!

Awe very kind , ty ty .

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01 Oct 2019, 9:55 pm

i drive a 90s era honda inherited from my late mother. i chose the car for her when she needed another.

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01 Oct 2019, 11:21 pm

Nice! You won't need to replace your car any time soon.

Sorry to hear about your mom, though.

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02 Oct 2019, 12:15 am

Borromeo wrote:

Nice! You won't need to replace your car any time soon. Sorry to hear about your mom, though.

thank you

but she is in heaven now. :star:

being that the honda has only 76k miles still on it, i should not have to replace it anytime soon.

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02 Oct 2019, 12:36 am

with outlawing old cars for 'new-deals'
the carless have to subsidise the rich peeps fancies
no way electric is clean-er
but its the money-flow
'making bounty-hunters affluent'
for holy cows again

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