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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) by acid andy on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:28AM

    by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday June 10 2020, @10:28AM (#1005739) Homepage Journal

    Sure, if you paid through the nose back then and bought something high-quality, of course it was better than the cheap Ikea junk that people buy just to have a bookshelf, but that's not a fair comparison. A dining table is now something you pick up in your lunch hour and pay less than a day's wages for. It can't compare to an oak table that took three months to make and cost a small fortune back in its day, and was so valuable that it was passed down from generation to generation rather than just binned.

    It can't compare, yet somehow most people today seem to prefer the fiberboard junk to the handcrafted oak--even quite a few Soylentils when this came up before.

    The fact is that most people aren't buying for longevity at all. They're buying for cheapness and/or uniqueness.

    Yes. I guess that's why they're dumping their grandparents' handcrafted oak table in favor of the fiberboard (and no, it's not even always cheap).

    It's a conscious choice. And there aren't millions of antique oak tables running around the country, or toolsets from the 20's still in working order.

    That's just because the sheeple threw them out because they were brainwashed into thinking old is bad, new and shiny good, if you keep the old you're called a hoarder.

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