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1980 Sony trintitron crt TV that still works. Got the N64 hooked up to it.

Sinclair Microvision MTV-1. It doesn't work though. First released about 1978 according to Wikipedia.

Found it in a thrift store in a small town with a single stop light, in the middle of nowhere. That's also where I got my sealed copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.0 on 5 1/4 floppies. Total cost $7.

I have my grandmothers iMac G4. Just an interesting looking from the days when Apple made interesting looking things. It still works but it’s really used for anything.

I own a model electric train that was built in 1937. So, 88 years young?

Runs well, it's kinda weird to think that this was a toy and this level of build quality was normal. To be fair, it wasn't exactly. This was a high end toy aimed at affluent teens and young adults. It would have been equivalent to buying a new PlayStation. But still, I have trouble imagining any toy you could buy today that would hold up like this.

Probably a Cowon iAudio mp3 player from the mid aughts. I might still have a Philips cd mp3 player from the early aughts. Ooh in my garage I have Sony PC speakers from 2001.

250 MHZ analog oscilloscope from HP

Fully functioning Commodore 64, monitor, 2 floppy drives, printer, and several joysticks.

A TI-99/4. I need to find an old tv to hook it up

oldest electronic

Electronic WHAT!?! Choose a noun, son.

I have a radio from the late 30s, though not in working condition. And a radio from 1961 that I use regularly

I've got an old TRS-80 in stored-in-a-leaky-shed-for-40-years condition. I can also lay my hands on an AM/FM radio that I think dates to the 70's.

Empire State radio, R52

1950s oscilloscope

atari vcs (from before it was rebranded to atari 2600)

My husband has a collection of obsolete technology. The oldest thing he’s got in there is a VT100 terminal.

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.

Original Gameboy.

Still works.

I cleaned up when I moved, so the oldest gadget I have right now is a 15 year old MSI laptop, still happily running with linux.

So many old computers & calculators here.

I have an Apple IIe, but at the moment it's at my friend's place. What I have with me are a bunch of Thinkpads: a barely working X60, a fine X200 with busted battery, and a combination of 20 and 30 series ones I am currently using.

May I insert some additions of analog here?

I got a Rotel RA-04 audio amp from 2006 from my dad that I am currently using, and I'm sure there are older stuff where it's from.

Aside from that, a Yaesu FT-60 FM transceiver made in 2004 still running strong.

I have a bunch of mid-century Roberts radios that I've convert to smart speakers (using the original speakers and, where possible, the amplifiers) if that counts.

I have an electric singer sewing machine from 1964 and another one from around 1950. Amazing how well they work.

One of the Play it Loud Game Boys (the red one), it's as old as I am

Donkey Kong Game & Watch (1982)

1983 Lenco LRP 5450 DD record player &

1998 Yamaha RX-496 RDS stereo receiver

My father-in-law 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 old magnavox TV from the early 70s, with the wooden slat curtain thing you pull in front of it.

Old 8 track players,

my great grandfather was an electrical engineer and made some custom lighting controls in wooden boxes, with dials and meters and switches, he did made it all for his church!

from that same grandfather, he had some portable reel to reel tape recording stuff, an old portable projector that comes in a cast iron cowl.

tons of stuff that everyone makes fun of me for holding on to.

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.

My original gameboy colour

Bulova Accutron from the 60s. I also have a Heathkit oscilloscope which I think is of similar vintage.

A ferrite core memory module, circa 1956 at a guess.

I believe it’s my Atari 2600! I can’t think of anything older that I’ve got that runs on electric juice.