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And tell me how proud of it you are.

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[-] sturlabragason@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I have a Sony M2 Micro card with inside it's USB adapter.

I've used it to install countless Linux distros since 2007 😅

[-] ForestOrca@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Within reach on my desk, Unisonic LC-384 Dual Power Solar and Battery Backup Pocket Calculator - I've not owned it the whole time, so I looked around and see it was produced on or around 1982. It works just fine.

It has a minimal listing in the Calcuseum (http://www.calcuseum.com/SCRAPBOOK/BONUS/32532/1.htm)

[-] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Probably the 20-year-old microwave.

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[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I have an early 70s waffle/sandwhich maker eletric grill. Was a wedding gift to my parents and i grew up eating food off of it. Works flawlessly. But its just coils hooked to 120v with a regulator. Not much to break

[-] HootinNHollerin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

!buyitforlife@sh.itjust.works

[-] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Also !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net which is pretty active

Edit: whoops accidentally tagged the community as a user lol

[-] NikkiNikkiNikki@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

the oldest is one of my portable cassette recorders, a very early GE model that is in near perfect condition. It's so early on it doesn't have much info online, and seems to be rare, but unwanted.

The one im the most proud of is my IBM LexMark model M keyboard, It's older than me, abused to hell, modified, and is still my daily driver because it's so comfortable

[-] nowrongnotes@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

A 1930's Remington mechanical typewriter. My dad used it regularly until he passed away, it still works perfectly and I've got a whole box of ribbons for it.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

I have some railroad stock certificates from the late 19th century that I need to frame. They're a few bucks on ebay and really freaking cool

In terms of electronics, I have some model trains from the 60s and 70s that are pretty worthless but keep going despite the abuse and lack of maintenance thanks to electric motors being so simple and easy to maintain. Other than that it's probably a shoe in between my wife's N64, PS2 and CRT TV, an old police scanner I got off ebay, or the early plasma TV that I got from my parents who got it from my aunt who got it with their house.

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Technically speaking, it's the 2TB platter drive full of games that I've pulled from computer to computer over the last 15 years or so. Everything else has failed or become obsolete, but it's still kicking, miraculously.

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[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

A 1960s electric meat slicer. Use it every Thanskgiving. That thing is built like a tank and a probable fire hazard.

More recent would be a 720p Samsung TV hooked up to an AppleTV HD we still use in our Master bedroom, mostly for classic movies on TCM. We’ve had it for 15 years and she’s still kicking.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I’m still rocking an old CA tv (it’s missing the R). It’s an L32WD12. It does 1080i.

Someone I knew bought it for over a thousand bucks back in the mid 2000s and one day half of the picture went black so they gave it to me.

A cable in the back of the tv was heating up and shrinking and disconnected itself. I took off the aluminum heat shield (which is what seemed to be causing the problem) and stuck a piece of a credit card in there between the cable and the connector to hold it down, taped the cable so it wouldn’t move much. I have been using it since about 2009. I’ve had to push the cable down a few times, so I just busted a hole in the back so I wouldn’t have to take it apart any more.

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

My clock radio.

[-] Kadaj21@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Mine’s the 390t with 256mb of storage. So it’s one of the ones that’s triangle in shape with a real smal lcd screen and takes a single AA battery. Suuuuper simple to just plug in with mini USB and drag and drop mp3s over.

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