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    What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    Oldest piece of tech I have lying around at the moment as a spare is a AMD 5870 gfx card.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    Haven't we had this one recently?

    A Casio scientific calculator purchased in 1995.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    Original MX518 mouse from 2005 which I'm still using. I replaced it with a G602 a couple of years ago which started double clicking by itself after 18 months so I'm back with the MX518. I guess at some point Logitech figured building mice that lasted decades wasn't good for business.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lanky123 View Post
    Original MX518 mouse from 2005 which I'm still using. I replaced it with a G602 a couple of years ago which started double clicking by itself after 18 months so I'm back with the MX518. I guess at some point Logitech figured building mice that lasted decades wasn't good for business.
    MX518 and the first mouse I fell in love with

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    amstrad cpc 6128 or maybe my minolta X300 camera. probably the latter tbh.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    My iRiver H120, I upgraded it to a 128GB HDD, but the main body is well over 20 years old.
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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    Well, Apple II Europlus, with a load of accessories and software, goes back to c.1979. That's for computers.

    Or a programmable TI calculator, c.1974-ish.

    Also, a Canon EF 35mm SLR camera. That EF refers to the camera body, not the EF lens mount. I got that in about 1975. IIRC, it was the first SLR with an electronic shutter.

    But the actual oldest (that I can think of) that I bought for myself is my first SLR camera, a 35mm Praktica Super TL, which I got (I think) in 1967 or 68. It was certainly about then. I also still have some of the darkroom gear I had with it, though the bigger bits (enlarger, etc) are long gone.

    Though if watches count, I have my grandfather's fob watch (half hunter, I think), which I was given by my father, and that dates back, as far as I can tell, to the latter 25 years or so of the 19th century and a watch probably qualifies as "technology" though is probably not what the question had in mind.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    I'm still using Microsoft Intellimouse Optical from the year 2000ish. I think that's the oldest tech related thing I've got.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    I realised last night it's my mum's old kenwood blender from the 1970s. Still going strong that thing. And used several times a year, particularly for making batter.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    I have some camera gear and Hifi stuff from the 1970s which seems to work??

    If it comes to computing parts - the A6 3670K CPU I won in 2012 on Hexus is still being used,as is a monitor I bought in 2006(made in 2005).

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    Quote Originally Posted by neepheid View Post
    I'm still using Microsoft Intellimouse Optical from the year 2000ish. I think that's the oldest tech related thing I've got.
    Those were brilliant.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    Quote Originally Posted by ik9000 View Post
    I realised last night it's my mum's old kenwood blender from the 1970s. Still going strong that thing. And used several times a year, particularly for making batter.
    It was only a few years ago that I replaced a Kenwood Chef (model A701A, IIRC) from the '70s.

    It was still working but before I got it, mum managed to break the ceramic (I think) bowl and the plastic one she got as a replacement was, well, naff. That didn't last so well. The Chef itself still worked but the motor/gearbox was getting very noisy (with a grinding type backnote) and the company I was going to get to service it could no longer get parts. Apparently, Kenwood had stopped supplying parts, just 'cos they stopped making that model >40 years earlier. Flippin' cheek.

    MS et.al. take note - some companies support their products for nearly half a century. Hint.

    So, when Kenwood had an especially good offer for for a new Chef (Titanium, with stainless steel bowl) in terms of loadsa extra bits, I splurged. Now, I just need a pasta machine for it 'cos I'm getting to old for my manual one. (Note: for 'old' read lazy).

    Oh, and maybe a mincer to do a nice sausagemeat blend.
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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    For my PC's the oldest in-use component is an atrocious AMD FX-4300 for one of my browser-based machines at work. it does the job - mostly!

    As for the oldest tech, I have a 1980's Technics record player + Wharfedale speaker set up, still going strong 8)

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    Probably my Marantz PM251 (1985-86). It`s still working fine.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    a 1987 Canon EOS 650, great as I canon use a lens on my EOS R and my EOS 650 and all the models I own in-between.

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    Re: What's the oldest piece of tech you still have that works.

    I have a ZX81 in the loft that worked the last time I tried it, as did the ZX Spectrum. Sadly, the 16K RAMpack for the '81 was not so durable. I swear I had a Memotech 32K pack somewhere too, but I have no idea what happened to it.
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