What's the oldest electronic device you have that you still use regularly?

My oven (a double-oven side by side) from the mid 50's. It is freaking awesome (except not self-cleaning lol). Gorgeous, with cool chrome and bakelite buttons, has a griddle and works so great! The best thing about it, though, is how it looks. We built our cabinets in our kitchen to fit it. Second oldest is my mixer from my grandmother circa 1962.

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Kenwood receiver
Two MTX 3 way floor speakers with 12" subs
Purchased with my first job in 1993

Still work awesome

70s craftsman circular saw, use 5-6 Times a year. 82 Panasonic boom box. 70s Sansui stereo and amp.

1982 Aubrey 7563 bathroom exhaust fan.

An old rice cooker it's over 40 years old.

Sony receiver, turntable and speakers 1977. Toshiba microwave 1984. All work.great

A Milwaukee magnum hole shooter corded drill.....I bought it as a primary installation drill when I started as a locksmith in the 80's.....after numerous motor brush replacements, it still serves today as my in shop 1/2" drill....USA quality....It'll retire with me in 2 yrs....lol....

The keyboard I'm typing on I bought with my first computer in 1999. The keys are loud but no sign of wear and tear.

Grandpa's tablesaw, chopsaw, and sander.

So far, my brain. Errors out every once in a while, or it is Mandela. Still runs on electricity.

my brain/body.

in constant use since I was a spermatozoon.

Kenwood KA-128 integrated amplifier and Advent Prodigy Tower speakers.

A crystal radio I built in a cigar box circa 60's. I found it recently going thru my storage boxes and it still works fine.

1970's tube Vox guitar amp. I patch it to the flat screen tv for movie watching. It sits on the opposite side of the room and makes it sound like a movie theater with surround sound.

I regularly use a Vitamix blender to grind coffee. It's from the mid-80's. Still works great!

ELECTROLUX VACUUM CLEANER.

DAD bought it for Ma when I was maybe 7 or 8. I just bought a new hose for it and it's back to 100%.

I just turned 67

Stand up tube radio for AM and SW. Great speaker - takes 30 seconds or so to heat up the tubes but still listen to it every week. It is from the 40's. If a tube goes out it will cost a few hundie to get a new one made. EMP proof but quite useless if there is no AC power.

My Sonab speakers that i got in the early 80's.
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My brain.

18 year old Gateway a22957-306 motherboard.

Its the original socket 423 Pentium 4 1.3ghz,1GB of RAM, and PSU.

I added Radeon x1300 AGP,2x 120GB HDD, sound blaster live (dell), realtek pci NIC, and WiFi. Windows 7 lite and a bunch of games from 98-2003.

I used to have tons of older electronics but the wife had it all removed while I was at work one day, she made sure to keep the hard drives though lol. Fortunately the gateway snuck past her exterminators because it was in a brand new case ha!

cordless shaver i take on trips

X10 power control modules and controller.

Bought at Radio Shack late 1970s

Roland JX3P

The ORIGINAL household power controllers ... and it is NOT hooked up to the Net or to Amazon or Google!!!

WOW ... those are worth their weight in Gold imo!

Maybe it's just me but I'm surprised at the number of responders that don't know the difference between Electric and Electronic.

Yep. And you can still buy them at x10.com or amazon.

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Texas instrument TI-1766 solar powered calculator

From 1987

TI solar calculator from 1984.

MoS

[link to www.youtube.com (secure)] I have one of these on my fireplace mantle. It still announces every hour on the hour.

WTF ?