If it ain't broke: You share your oldest working gadgets https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52965974
@estherschindler my wife still uses the first generation ipod and it works fine
@estherschindler They could have done a whole series of articles just on my stuff.
This is my oldest working “gadget.” It is 43 years old and I used it yesterday. 😎
@realDDGlover @estherschindler
My Hewlett-Packard calculator is 31 years old.
@mcfate @realDDGlover @estherschindler
Still got at least an old TI-81 (iirc) which is about the same age, though my #Victrola takes the prize at 105 years old.
If my old Domestic sewing machine were rebelted, that'd be the winner at ~130 years old.
I've posted pics here before.
@netspionage @realDDGlover @estherschindler
Try and take a square root or a cotangent with a sewing machine or a Victrola, though.
😶
@mcfate @netspionage @realDDGlover @estherschindler
What, your sewing machine doesn't come with a slide rule?
@misterfive @netspionage @realDDGlover @estherschindler
No, my slide rule doesn't come with a sewing machine.
@misterfive @netspionage @realDDGlover @estherschindler
I don't actually miss books of mathematical tables and doing interpolations.
@mcfate @netspionage @realDDGlover @estherschindler
I actually had to teach how to use log books at one point in my life.
We think our oldest gadget is an electric wok we bought around 1984.