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

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16 Jul 2025, 12:19 am

Twist Stick wrote:

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.

Vintage laptops are great. There are still modern linux distros that can run on such laptops. I have a buddy who still loves to game natively in Win XP as well.

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16 Jul 2025, 12:22 am

BTDT wrote:

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

You *built* a digital clock in 1976? The trophy goes to this post!

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16 Jul 2025, 12:23 am

Cornflake wrote:

^ 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! :lol:

Another contender! Please post photos if possible. Nixie clocks are cool.

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16 Jul 2025, 12:25 am

enz wrote:

Oldest thing I have is a atari lynx

I remember those things. Wins a trophy for eclecticism for sure.

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16 Jul 2025, 12:29 am

Carbonhalo wrote:

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.

Wow, a trove. Photos would be most appreciated. Teletype machines were the near-prehistoric ancestors of Unix workstations, which are themselves almost totally lost to the mists of time.

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16 Jul 2025, 12:33 am

nick007 wrote:

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 was a retro game collector a long time ago. I had several consoles like Atari 2600 (a clone called the "Gemeni"), Colecovision, Intellivision, Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis.

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16 Jul 2025, 2:27 am

omg i don't know
old radio?-s
old keyboards, who's gonna get rid of these old keyboards
electronic play learn box, there's this one, 70s surviver,

maybe we(little brother, but the last surviving box landed with our son) had/have the german though
'any excuse to go shopping in germany will do'
still four or six toy shops in Leer? exceptional
here you have nothing, only supermarkets for that

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16 Jul 2025, 3:11 am

CapedOwl wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I was a retro game collector a long time ago. I had several consoles like Atari 2600 (a clone called the "Gemeni"), Colecovision, Intellivision, Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis.

I had an Atari with a little joystick with a red button on the corner

I loved it so much
My dad brought a load of games home for me as well

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16 Jul 2025, 3:28 am

traven wrote:

omg i don't know
old radio?-s
old keyboards, who's gonna get rid of these old keyboards
electronic play learn box, there's this one, 70s surviver,

maybe we(little brother, but the last surviving box landed with our son) had/have the german though
'any excuse to go shopping in germany will do'
still four or six toy shops in Leer? exceptional
here you have nothing, only supermarkets for that

Thanks for posting the photos. There's a recent, somewhat similar product: an electronics maker kit for kids...

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16 Jul 2025, 3:29 am

babybird wrote:

CapedOwl wrote:

nick007 wrote:

I was a retro game collector a long time ago. I had several consoles like Atari 2600 (a clone called the "Gemeni"), Colecovision, Intellivision, Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis.

I had an Atari with a little joystick with a red button on the corner

I loved it so much
My dad brought a load of games home for me as well

Did you ever play the Atari game "Enduro"? That was my personal fav on the Atari 2600

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16 Jul 2025, 3:46 am

I don't remember that one
I used to like Qbert :lol:

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Similar old thread:
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1950 fasco 3 speed oscillating fan
1974 sharp microwave oven
1975 gulbransen "theatrum" organ
1981 Denon dp51F turntable
1982 sony discman
1982 magnepan speakers
1988 nakamichi CR2 cassette deck
1998 windows 98SE PC
2000 CEDAR DeClicker and DeCrackler duo
2007 sony bravia tv set, one of the last of the ones sony made that don't listen to your conversations

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60 year old tube type ham radio. Drake TR-3, for anyone who knows that stuff.

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CapedOwl wrote:

Vintage laptops are great. There are still modern linux distros that can run on such laptops

...And of course NetBSD heh
I got a 2008 Asus EeePC netbook, running 10.1 w/ default CTWM snappily. It's called after it's AGD-grade specs, "toasterbawx" ("bawx" being alternatively spelled "box").

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