I have a battery operated tube radio from mid to late 1940’s. It even works, but the battery it uses is getting rare and quite expensive. And my country doesn’t really use AM radio broadcasts anymore, so it’s more of a curiosity nowadays.
I also have a lot of working stuff from the 1950’s, mostly radios and amplifiers. Great gear, and much easier to service than their modern counterparts.
Donkey Kong Game & Watch (1982)
1983 Lenco LRP 5450 DD record player &
1998 Yamaha RX-496 RDS stereo receiver
My stepfather got them for us 2nd hand for a joint present. Quite a decent system!
Not a real audiophile, but it works well and we enjoy it.
I also made a Google Home kind of thing out of it using an ESP32S3 that uses ESPHome, Home Assistant, and Music Assistant to make it a Spotify connect node to play Spotify through it, control it with an IR blaster, and use Voice Assistant with it if I am not too far (it has a single mema mic)
I have an electric singer sewing machine from 1964 and another one from around 1950. Amazing how well they work.
Extremely old singer sewing machine gang unite
Probably either my Olympus OM-1 or my Minolta SR-T 201. Both still work (the Olympus just needs some cleaning and maintenance)
I still have a CRT from the early 90s and all my old video game consoles.
Original Gameboy.
Still works.
Hah, you stumbled upon one of Lemmy’s weird UI quirks. If you start a line with a number and period, it assumes you’re making a numbered list. But that period is placed at a specific indent, so long numbers spill off the left side of the screen.
- Here’s what it is supposed to look like.
(Adding a line break here)
- And here is what happens when the number is too long.
It only works with 8 numbers or less though, because 99999999 is the highest value that the numbered list supports.
I have a CRT from 1995. Aside from that, probably my dad’s turntable which has unofficially become mine, or the Yamaha electric keyboard
My Nintendo dsi. Since 2009
Either the wood-grain radio with clock or a 1970s bubble-LED calculator
I have a Milton Bradley Microvision from around 1979, the first handheld game system that used cartridges. I have the block breaker game, it still works but I think some components are wearing out as the game speed feels way too fast. Thing takes 2 9V batteries!
Sega Megadrive from about 1989.
An originally original gameboy. Still worked until about 2 years ago. I assume there’s just a little battery or a capacitor that needs replacing, but I haven’t had the time to look into it.
Casio f-91w watch. Its like 6 years old now, so the battery only has like 4 more years left.
Not a full electronic per se, but I do have a heatsink from an old second gen IBM memory module.
