I still use seldomly the electric guitar I got when I was a teenager. I’m not a very good musician and guitar player, but it makes nice harmonics.
Ask HN: What's your oldest piece of electrical equipment?
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#12> What electrical goods did you buy new
If buying new is a requirement, then it is my digital multimeter which I have bought maybe 20 years ago for $15. It has survived roughly 5-10 batteries mostly because it has no auto-off option and turning on is as simple as to press one button. Everything plastic is already broken - standing support, latches and standard probes. I am planning to replace it as soon as I start anything serious because the display flickers sometimes, probably due to careless usage.
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#13Zelda, link's awakening... one of the best Gameboy games ever made.
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#14> What electrical goods did you buy new If buying new is a requirement, then it is my digital multimeter which I have bought maybe 20 years ago for $15. It has survived roughly 5-10 batteries mostly because it has no auto-off option and turning on is as simple as to press one button. Everything plastic is already broken - standing support, latches and standard probes. I am planning to replace it as soon as I start an…
ill double this. 27 year old fluke meter that works as new with a fresh battery
technically a hand me down but still!
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#15Maybe the oldest device is my soldering iron, and it really does need some TLC! The some of our solar PV system is 2008!
Ah yeah me too, have a Weller soldering iron from 2001-ish.
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#16I didn't buy it new but I use my 1972 Fender Rhodes electric piano daily.
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#17It might be my Radio Shack multimeter I bought in 2003. I recently got rid of my TI-89 calculator that I bought around 2000.
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#18Refrigerator from 1940s, still does its job.
Didn’t refrigerators of the time commonly use asbestos? How is the energy efficiency too?
I had to replace my refrigerator recently after 12 years. I thought refrigerators were supposed to last forever, like the 1940 one, but it turns out mine had a design life of only 8 years, and this is normal now. (I may remember those exact numbers wrong, but it was short.) Replacing something that big that frequently can not be good for the environment.
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#19A soviet radio the size of small dinner table from the 50s. It's actually nice, looks like furniture.
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#20I have a lineman’s handset that was given to me in the mid 90s by a retiring friend. It’s probably at least 5 years older than that.
They’re extremely cool but useless now. They charge just by being used on POTS lines, and the clips, tiny beds of nails, can attach right into the middle of a cable leaving no noticeable mark.
Similar device on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineman%27s_handset