• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Part of the original large corner desk I bought after graduating college. It was like 8’ in both directions from the corner. I finally switched to a motorized rectangle desk, but I kept one side of the old desk for it’s hutch. The thing is made of cheap mdf, but it’s still doing it’s job.

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    3 hours ago

    I wanted to say N64 but it’s closer to 30. I still boot up my PS3 from time to time though

  • Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world
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    My spouse and I both have mid century 5 drawer tanker desks. I’m sitting at it to type this.

    Attached to my monitor stand is the modified remains of an 80’s gravity lamp. The base broke but the springs are good and it makes a great spotlight.

    Our server and tv are built into the remains of an early 80’s Zenith console TV. The screen was dead so we cut out space behind the decorative front pannel for a 32in flat screen and cut down the tower to work as scaffolding for the computer parts. Tossed a sound bar in and now it booms like a theater. You don’t even notice the 2in of screen that’s losts on the ends.

    Our stove is a Montgomery Ward from the late 70s. It’s an absolute marvel to use. The clock is broken so I’m planning to dismantle that area to put controls for a vent fan I want to install in the attached shelf.

    Our fridge is modern but the second I find myself a '64 GE Americana I’m gutting it to modetnize that masterpiece. Unless I find the tools for metal fab first…

    My Samsung microwave is from the mid 70’s. It doesn’t have a turn table but it heats food better than any modern box and has a fraction of the radio leak that my Walmart one had.

  • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    All of my musical instruments and a surprising number of tools. A lot of vinyl records. He’ll I have computer thats 25 years old that I still turn on.

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    Knitting stuff fron the 50s, glassware from the 60s, and probably a load of crockery/kitchen stuff that is at least 20 years old. My speakers and amps are 80s (although they have new cones) and guitar stuff from around the millennium.

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    I have a thing for old computers, so… My C64, VIC-20, plus/4, A600, A1200, NES, Sega master system, PowerBook G4. I can’t fit all on my desk at once, so three are in storage, but I rotate.

    Also, my graphing calculator. I bought it new in 2000. I think they haven’t changed much, as there’s still just a handful of models approved for state exams. I took a skipper course five years ago, and that’s the one I brought.

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      3 hours ago

      Funny to think about my ti-83 being over 20 years old… Don’t use it that much anymore but I do get it out occasionally.

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    The one I’ll pick to share is my desk. It was a teachers desk and the drawers are full of signatures from kids in the classes. No date but the desk had the top restored by a guy I knew over 20 years ago. It was given to me a few years later and I’ve used it ever since.

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    The house itself is going on 80 (or might have passed it already; I have conflicting information on when it was built).

    Half of my furniture is antique, with one large built-in cabinet having been salvaged from a house even older than mine.

    I have no idea how old my gas range is, but I got it out of my in-laws’ house a decade and a half ago and they’d had it for years before that.

    My silverware is a hand-me-down from my mom, and is probably older than I am.

    My newest car (out of too many) is a 2007 model, I think, which means it might’ve been built in 2006. Most of the others are from the '90s.

    My previous daily-driver bike (which remains my backup after getting a cargo e-bike) is from circa 1991. Of my family’s dozen+ bikes, there are only three that I know for a fact are less than 20 years old.

    A surprising amount of stuff I have was found on the curb after other people threw it out, and is of indeterminate age.

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      You can determine the exact day of final assembly of your car using the VIN. You’re correct that it would have been made in 2006

  • Z72.53@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    If I had to pick one, it’s my Gameboy. I use that the most.

    There’s also: probably half of my books, most of my cameras, my old consoles, my sewing machine, and there’s probably more stuff. I’m kind of obsessed with old things.