Oldest piece of "technology" that you own/used recently
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Our Lachat is a little newer vintage, but our LECO CHN combustion analyzer sports a computer OS from a similar era. The computer is newer, but we had to stay with the old OS because there's no software upgrade possible. We have managed to hook up an intranet with shared folders, so I can pull data directly out of the folders onto my computer from the three major analyzers. You should look into that.
My parents still have a rotary phone in their kitchen. Used it a few weeks ago when I was there.
Had one of those in my dorm room back in the day. Still surprised that I was able to have kids after using that radiator.
When we we were moving out my roommate had the choice of the microwave or the refrigerator. He took the Quasar, pretty sure it was the heavier of the two.
Ohhh yes, I'm not a headphones guy. I have them connected to a modified Klipsch Cornwall design. I have some serious money in them, and they sound amazing. Ever listen to your favorite song and feel like they are in the room playing and signing it? .... Oh yah. :yes:
I regularly use a 1963 Fisher 500c Tube Amp with my 2 channel source music. Sound quality beats anything that is created today. I paid to have it completely rebuilt.
Very cool and you have me beat on "oldness." I do though have an old Sansui 9090DB that I use to drive some vintage 1979 Klipsch Heresys.
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I am old so have lots of old stuff:
1. My parent's 1950 Toastmaster (a wedding present they got). It went to college with me in 1969 and still has a place in my very contemporary kitchen. Used it last night. It's an heirloom of still functioning tech and the greatest toaster in the history of the planet! (Getting some deja vu here; have we done this thread before?)
2. I used a WWII German artillery compass (souvenir my dad brought back) last month to check azimuth to Direct TV satellites to see if I can dump Comcast. Nope, TOO many big darn trees in my yard. I know there are smarty phone apps to do this but I don't have a smarty pants phone yet.
3. I use my 1970 Minolta 55mm lense with the broken aperture as a magnifying glass and paper weight. As mag glass just yesterday.
1. My parent's 1950 Toastmaster (a wedding present they got). It went to college with me in 1969 and still has a place in my very contemporary kitchen. Used it last night. It's an heirloom of still functioning tech and the greatest toaster in the history of the planet! (Getting some deja vu here; have we done this thread before?)
2. I used a WWII German artillery compass (souvenir my dad brought back) last month to check azimuth to Direct TV satellites to see if I can dump Comcast. Nope, TOO many big darn trees in my yard. I know there are smarty phone apps to do this but I don't have a smarty pants phone yet.
3. I use my 1970 Minolta 55mm lense with the broken aperture as a magnifying glass and paper weight. As mag glass just yesterday.
1973 Canon Ftb camera. I've been using it to take black and white landscape photos to reprint on canvas. I feel film just creates the look I want as opposed to digital. The thing is built like a tank, it can be knocked around without worrying about it much.
Have an N64 exclusively for Super Smash Bros. action. Usually go with Link or Pikachu (been playing with Pikachu since the Pokemon yellow special edition for my pocket gameboy back in the day!).
I'm good, just got fixed a few weeks ago. Battle tested over the weekend, prior to the dutch oven 'incident'.
Indeed they do. My HP calculators still use RPN. The engineering office I'm currently stationed at has a lot of HP calculators, come to think of it...
Now that's back in the day! I couldn't do that for my friends, because my town was big enough to have two 3-digit prefixes before the last 4 digits. My family had one prefix, all my friends had the other.
