What's the oldest thing you still use?

Hi!

I am curious about the oldest piece of technology you still have. I break my phone about once every year, but I always buy them second hand and fix as much as possible. My laptop is a 2014 macbook air which still runs perfectly; although admittedly the most complicated thing i do is produce music with ableton (about 20 channels of audio). I suppose 2014 wasn’t really that long ago…

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A custom built laptop that my brother built it for me in… 2012.

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Macbook Air 2012 still works like a champ!

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My main desktop is from 2009 although it has had a few things replaced in it since (mainly upgrading to SSD, new video cards, new RAM). I still use a 2011 MBP with SSD and new battery it runs perfectly fine.

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I had a feeling macbooks would come up a few times here!

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Speaking of Macbooks, this summer I upgraded my 2012 MBP, but it’s still working fine and I gave it to one of our artists. As for the oldest piece of tech that I still use, that would probably be my GBA. I also still use the same 1080p LCD panel I had from 6th grade, which would make it 12 years old.

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Acer Aspire netbook from 2011-2012, can’t wait to burn it down one of these days XD

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Still use a Sony W810i soap-bar phone from 2006. I find it nicer to use than modern smart phones… proper buttons!

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I used to develop games for Brew, BlackBerry and J2ME and REALLY miss physical button. Not only because of the haptics but also because you don’t have to hide half the visible area of your display with your fingers.

I still probably own about 100 of all these classic phones I used to test my games - the oldest is probably a Nokia 6610 (maybe a Sony T610) - but of course not in use anymore.

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My headset Sony MFD-300 I’m using as a microphone, and it’s somewhere from 96-97’s )) Still great sound, better than all headset microphones under 100$.
Also using Microsoft Natural MultiMedia keyboard since 2003-2004.

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Actually, now that I think about it, my editor UA25 audio interface is way older than my MacBook. I must have been about 17 when I got my mum to buy it for me for £300. I recorded two albums on that thing…

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The original Apple iPad mini from 2012 - attached to Arcam irDAC and functions are a Spotify player.
And obviously MBP 2012 with GF650M GPU :wink: #stillalive

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My web server is pretty old, 2010-ish. An Intel Atom D410 based motherboard (integrated cpu).
A year ago I bought IBM ThinkPad T60 from around 2006 for Windows XP gaming, not used very often.

And I have a bunch of vintage computers just for fun - iMac G3, Macintosh Performa,
PowerBook with color screen and soviet personal computer Корвет ПК-8020, which isn’t working yet.

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If I stretch the “still use” thing a bit…

I got my first computer in 1995. It was a 386 with 2 MB RAM and a 100 MB HDD. I got a couple of upgrades as time went by but eventually it was time to build a completely new PC from scratch. I still kept the old one, though, and kept passing old components to it when it was still feasible. And I still have it! I’ve been using it as a typewriter and to play an occasional DOS game with an added nostalgia factor. It requires a similarly old monitor to work, though, and the one I had broke a couple of years ago, and I didn’t care enough to either get a replacement or figure out if it’s even feasible to use a modern one with it.

Anyway the computer is a real Frankenstein’s monster. IIRC it’s got Cyrix 233 CPU (which is really not much better than a 486), still the same 100 MB disk (there might be some bad sectors, but somehow it’s still holding together), 256 MB RAM (yeah, it can hold all the data on it’s HDD twice and then some). It can play MP3s, display JPGs, it could run windows 3.11 and maybe even 95, but really, why bother? And it’s got a 3 1⁄2-inch floppy drive and a DVD drive which is unable to read rewritable media.

And I think it still has a Supaplex save file where i finished all but three levels.

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I have a Gameboy classic that I still use to play games. But the oldest hardware is my very first computer, Commodore Vic-20, still working but not used a lot sadly.

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A drum machine from 1980. It goes booooom.

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I have a C64 and a Gameboy color that I play on once in a while

I have one of those really really really old , the classic thick heavy laptop, I don’t know exactly which year it belongs to, but it must be 8-9 years old, and still works just as fine.