what is your oldest device currently in use?

[zassou]

not limit to gadgets like phones and stuff. anything uses electricity counts.

 

mine is a mitsubishi electric split aircon, manufactured in july of 1999. still working, despite the fan makes a noise louder than a alarm clock.

apart from that, is a sandisk clip mp3 player made in 2009. with 2 colour oled display and sd card slot. still not used to listen to music on my phone.

[Drak3]

I got a door bell from the 1950s-1960s.

[PlayStation 2]

Actually not sure. I'd say my PS2 from like 2007 but the disc drive on that shit the bed, so maybe my TV from late 2008.

I'm getting a fat PS2 in soon so that'll be the oldest in active use, probably from 2001.

 

EDIT: Just thought about it, technically if we're counting cars as devices, then my car's the oldest. It was manufactured in July 2003, for reference. From there, the next car on was built in November 2016.

Edited December 9, 2019 by handymanshandle

[Anomnomnomaly]

I've still got my fridge freezer that I bought back in 2003, still going strong. My stove/oven is from 2006.

 

I've still got a Wii from around 2007, doesn't get used much any more though.

 

My mediaserver is based on the AMD FX platform from around 2010 onwards... although this current iteration of it was built around 2013 and had minor upgrades over the last 6yrs. My controller for my gaming PC is from 2010 and still works perfectly.

 

My tablet is the nVidia Shield K1 from circa 2016

 

But I think my current oldest piece of tech is a food processor that my mum gave me, it's hers from the late 70's or early 80's and still works.

 

I'm pretty sure some of the wiring in my house dates back to the 1950's.

[cole0622]

dell dimension 4100 from 2001 fully functional boots windows xp, original 20GB HDD

[amdorintel]

oh i got shit from the 1800's in the barn out back

[themaniac]

well my body uses electricity so I guess the oldest device I currently use is my own self. though I believe the house I live in is even older so I guess the house is also an option

[Guest]

My barn has its circuit breaker from the 19-somethings. The barn was built before my house, which was in 1920. 

[kaiju_wars]

I still play NES and SNES from time to time, so that should answer that.  Regularly, it'll be my Wii or N64.

[OutLox]

The oldest devices that I currently use would be my original xbox and a dell inspiron 530s. I don't remember the model but I use to daily drive a older hp pocket pc for a while before I ended up losing it in a move.

[Teddy07]

upgraded HP probook 4530s from 2012. I don´t keep old electronics, I throw it away or sell it. 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

portable hdd since the ps3

[RasmusDC]

my son uses my old original gameboy, it is from the launch year, so it is quite old. 

 

actually looks quite good still, took good care of it, however after a couple of months with him, it does look a bit worse.

[Emanbaird]

I have a Sony PVM 2020 at home, it's an old CRT monitor, I believe from the mid 80's. Apart from that, I have a Sega Genesis first gen. 

[Brennan Price]

I've got a pair of BeoVox 1001 passive speakers that I use as part of my main set up. They were manufactured in 1971 so they're a good 48 years old. 

[Mnky313]

I have a KVM switch from the early 2000s (don't know exactly, got it from work because they were throwing it out), I have a Windows 98 PC from around that time (it's a Pentium III card based system). My car is also that time (2000 model year).

[Kilrah]

Got several vintage computers and calculators, not sure which one is the oldest but it'd be from the early 80s. 

[Zodiark1593]

13 hours ago, handymanshandle said:

Actually not sure. I'd say my PS2 from like 2007 but the disc drive on that shit the bed, so maybe my TV from late 2008.

I'm getting a fat PS2 in soon so that'll be the oldest in active use, probably from 2001.

 

EDIT: Just thought about it, technically if we're counting cars as devices, then my car's the oldest. It was manufactured in July 2003, for reference. From there, the next car on was built in November 2016.

The original models tended to have problems with the disc reader, otherwise known as the infamous Disc Read Error. Came across this myself in the Fat model. On the other hand, my Slim model has been quite reliable. (Just need a decent hdmi converter).

Edited December 9, 2019 by Zodiark1593

[Animal901]

14 hours ago, Caroline said:

Story says some of the ceiling lamps in our house are from late 1880s, some of the wiring is the original from that time too because the way they installed it makes it very difficult to replace (told by electricians).

 

We also have an old TV from the 50s but it doesn't works anymore plus it uses 110V instead of the 240 we have, apparently someone plugged it in at some point and the high voltage killed it.

Need to change that wiring before it burns the house down.  I have a house made in 1923 and since electricians are part of the bulldozer bandwagon too i had to remove and route the new wire myself. Those old cloth back wires were insulated with rubber. Once the rubber wears off the cloth catches on fire. 

 

That tv broke because 240 is insane for anything other than a device that runs 2 things at once.  220/240v uses 2 hots off phase of each other to save the need for a Neutral. Modern 240v has to have a neutral with it, because modern engineers realize how insane people are.

[Animal901]

46 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

The original models tended to have problems with the disc reader, otherwise known as the infamous Disc Read Error. Came across this myself in the Fat model. On the other hand, my Slim model has been quite reliable. (Just need a decent hdmi converter).

Back in the old days of red lasers. They couldn't see thru the dust.  Hence the improvement to bluray. The biggest joke is if the inventer of the cd player used blue light then blu ray would have already been invented by the time dvd came out.

[Yogi_DaBear221]

It would probably be my PS1 or N64, with the original PS1 LCD Screen. 

[Kilrah]

7 minutes ago, Animal901 said:

 220/240v uses 2 hots off phase of each other to save the need for a Neutral.

No. Most of the world uses single phase 240V, poster is simply not in the USA but for some reason got a TV that was meant for there.

[Animal901]

2 minutes ago, Yogi_DaBear221 said:

It would probably be my PS1 or N64, with the original PS1 LCD Screen. 

Got nintendos for days. They're only useful today if the lockout chip is disabled.

[Animal901]

9 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

No. Most of the world uses single phase 240V, poster is simply not in the USA but for some reason got a TV that was meant for there.

Well yeah technically. 1 transformer would be 1 phase, but they wrap the 2nd hot the other direction so its opposite phase. An end user sees essentially 2 phases off 1 when they use a stove or dryer. I have an old house and i had to hire an electrician just to get 220v inside.  Did not realize till i was a homeowner that people had 110v panels back in the day. It's still weird to hear people actually flip the volt switch on their psu elsewhere in the world. Seems wasteful but i know people in uk have cheaper electric bills than usa.

[Kilrah]

34 minutes ago, Animal901 said:

Well yeah technically. 1 transformer would be 1 phase, but they wrap the 2nd hot the other direction so its opposite phase.

No. In America you have 110V single phase and your 220V is 2-phase, yes. But most of the world has 240V single phase, 400V multiple phase.