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What are Your Oldest Working Gizmos?

posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday June 09 2020, @08:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the does-an-astrolabe-count? dept.

martyb writes:

A recent story on the BBC posed a question to its readers. If it ain't broke: You share your oldest working gadgets. Folks wrote in with their favorite, longest-lasting devices.

Besides being curious about the latest tech devices and advancements, I've noticed our community also seems to have a number of thrifty folk who thrive on getting the most out of their gadgets.

I'll count myself among those in that category. I'll start with a Sharp EL-510S solar-powered, scientific calculator from the early 1980s. I also have a JVC stereo receiver from the mid 1980s that is still going strong. The computer I am currently using is a Dell Latitude Core 2 Duo from about 2009.

So how well has your stuff held up? What was been your best acquisition for long-term durability?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @08:42PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @08:42PM (#1005364)

    Dell d610 laptop from 2005.

    Use it every day with linux mint and extra memory because it has a 4:3 and high res screen.
    I hate laptops with squishy 16:9 screens meant for movies but that's all you can get nowadays..

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @08:46PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 09 2020, @08:46PM (#1005368)

    Oops meant 5:4 screen. Modern laptops no longer have these..

  • (Score: 2) by richtopia on Tuesday June 09 2020, @10:51PM

    by richtopia (3160) on Tuesday June 09 2020, @10:51PM (#1005466) Homepage Journal

    My Acer C310 is also from 2005. Because it is a tablet PC I've kept it; I don't regularly use it but if I want a Wacom interface it still works. The replacement laptop is also still in service, a 2010 Lenovo SL410 is sitting next to me serving my website.

    Considering 2005 is when I graduated from High School, in order to find older devices I would need to head to my parent's house. My father is a master at running hardware until it dies; I believe the CNC controller still runs Windows ME.

  • (Score: 2) by driverless on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:32AM

    by driverless (4770) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @03:32AM (#1005634)

    My desktop PC is from 2007. It's a a Core2, barely breaks a sweat doing everything I need it to, swapped out the spinning rust for an SSD some years ago but that's all the changes I've made.

    And it's using a Model M13 which is at least twenty years old. I stockpiled two more of them for when the first one died, but after twenty years they're still sitting there unneeded.