Obscure retro items that you still own

Judgement Day

I came across this old manual today while going through a suitcase of my 'prized' personal possessions. How it survived this long I don't know as the machine went to the great laundry in the sky several decades ago. It was a great machine and used to dance about the floor when in spin mode.

Needless to say it's going back into the suitcase where it joins my mother's school reports from the 1930's, ration books etc.etc. is there any hope for me?

Miss.Mayhem

When I was a young child my mam had one of these. My cousin and I used to play on it pretending it was a rollercoaster. I think we broke it in the end! lol

I still have my pogo stick from Christmas "89

Professey Chin

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I still have my pogo stick from Christmas "89

Those things want me dead

filbert the fox

Electorlux 350E vacuum cleaner.

Still sucking after 28years. Albeit with a new motor 10 years ago.

Judgement Day

My first scrapbook - ignore the date, obviously a mistake...:D

A fully functional Compaq laptop from 1989. Won me the unofficial title of "oldest laptop in the country" by Ryan Tubridy. :pac:

Also an issue 03 Sky viewing card from early 1990.

L1011

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A fully functional Compaq laptop from 1989. Won me the unofficial title of "oldest laptop in the country" by Ryan Tubridy. :pac:

I've a Dell 325NC, functioning with dual-booting OS2 and Windows 3 on it which I believe is a 1988 unit. Would have had DOS 4 on it when shipped.

I've got a Cambridge satellite box with external "channel expander" frequency shifter and a much newer release Sky card also; worked until there was no analogue left on Astra. LNB power failed so I used the chain output on a cheap Lidl digital box and had one channel on both polarities tuned in on it.

RayM

An old Northern Telecom push-button phone. Nearly every house had one in the '80s.

Dramatik

Not a hope I was letting the ma throw this away. Not sure how obscure it is but I never saw any other kids with one when I was younger.

Judgement Day

Slightly off topic but pretty retro...a fundraising school jotter magazine my mother and her brother produced during WW.II. - a Dublin school at that! My mother was old enough to go to Belfast and join up for the last two years of the war in the WAAF. I don't think that she ever forgave Hitler for denying her her planned schooling in North Wales caused by the onset of the war.

fryup

a casio keyboard i got for xmas back in the 80s

could never master it, just messed about with the backbeats for hours on end...i was easily amused back in those days