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