oldest electronic
Electronic WHAT!?! Choose a noun, son.
I suspect this is the (non-word) singular form of the noun “electronics”. If there’s a better term for such words, and you let me know what it is, I will give you my thank.
Original Gameboy.
Still works.
i have an old magnavox TV from the early 70s, with the wooden slat curtain thing you pull in front of it.
Old 8 track players,
my great grandfather was an electrical engineer and made some custom lighting controls in wooden boxes, with dials and meters and switches, he did made it all for his church!
from that same grandfather, he had some portable reel to reel tape recording stuff, an old portable projector that comes in a cast iron cowl.
tons of stuff that everyone makes fun of me for holding on to.
i have an old magnavox TV from the early 70s, with the wooden slat curtain thing you pull in front of it.
i grew up on old floor wooden console tv’s and had one up until 2014 when it died and discovered that neither replacement parts nor repairmen existed anymore despite the tv being manufactured not very long ago in 1992.
i haven’t bought a tv ever since then and my plasma died after only 8 years, so i don’t have a tv anymore; but would instantly buy one they made another console tv.
i keep wanting to rip the guts out and install a 40 inch tv with some self hosted stuff in the cabinet, amplifier etc.
it would be cool! but also that thing is cool as it is
i thought about doing this multiple times, but each time i remember that i’m considerably less handy than i like to think i am and that my hubris lead me to almost killing myself when i changed the breaks on my car myself. lol
My husband has a collection of obsolete technology. The oldest thing he’s got in there is a VT100 terminal.
Donkey Kong Game & Watch (1982)
Our old pong console. I don’t know if it still works because it’s been boxed up for over a decade at this point.
Oldest in use? Probably my old texas instruments graphing calculator, but it’s dying. I got it back in the early nineties for college, and my kid was using it last year with homework, but the screen is failing and it sometimes just freezes until you pull and replace the batteries. So only kinds in use, and barely hanging on.
My VCR is newer and still sees use rarely, but was used daily for a few years in the early naughties.
Wait! The phonograph! It’s still functional and my dad got it in the early eighties, so it’s older than the pong console, but I think calling it electronics is dubious, so I dunno if it counts. But it’s the oldest functional electric powered thing we have that I know of.
Not entirely sure but this has to be one of the oldest and is fully functional.
4 channel mono audio mixer, with germanium transistors only
From the mid-sixties
Cool. I’ll give you $50 for it 🤪
1950s oscilloscope
heck i bet that is awesome looking. Does it still work?
I’m still the original owner of one of these 1982 Pac-Man consoles. Actually, I thought it was lost for decades but my aunt discovered it during a basement clean out and gave it back to me. Last I checked, it still worked. But the volume is so dang loud that I remember I always had to play with it outside.
250 MHZ analog oscilloscope from HP
Don’t know if it counts, but my suitcase record player has vacuum tubes. Still spins but it needs a needle.
Bulova Accutron from the 60s. I also have a Heathkit oscilloscope which I think is of similar vintage.
I still have a CRT from the early 90s and all my old video game consoles.
hello fellow “never EVER let a console go” gang
Over the years i had friends come over for retro video game / lan parties and they sometimes left their consoles. Picked up an extra dreamcast and an original playstation that way.
I want to get my grandmas old china cabinet and put some LEDs in it and have the consoles on display!
Yeah even when they do eventually stop working, they’ll be nice to display
Casio f-91w watch. Its like 6 years old now, so the battery only has like 4 more years left.
Lost a lot of cool old stuff in a fire a few years ago, so I’m guessing my original N64.
Empire State radio, R52
