The oldest Technology in your home...

magicbastarder

a friends dad had (has?) a sony pro walkman, about IRL£400 at the time i think - he told us that rumours were that sony killed it because journos etc. were still favouring it over DAT, which they were trying to promote.

Anesthetize

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Minidisc was a very popular format in Japan for a long time.

taxAHcruel

This will date me. Still have a functional red and blue plastic "My first Sony" cassette player in the attic. There was a microphone attached which appears not to work perfectly any more unless you really shout into it. But the player itself still works.

Grew up listening to kids singing pop songs on it. For whatever reason I got a lot of "mini pops" cassettes in my Christmas Socks back in those days which was basically power ballads sung by 10 years olds.

Oscar_Madison

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129539#Comment_121129539

Ha ha yeah forgot about those albums- I’d have poisoned anyone’s Christmas dinner who dared get me those for Christmas 🤪

Sleepy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121129490#Comment_121129490

It was popular as a home / venue recording device here for a good chunk of the 90's / early 00's too. I still have a few discs with recordings of a night I used to produce in a bar in Galway somewhere in my mother's house.

banie01

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I know a lot of gigging musicians who still use minidisc for the backing tracks. Most have moved on to laptop or tablet set ups but still quite a few minidisc knocking around.

JMcL

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Now that you mention it, I do have a pair of early 90's Sennheiser headphones that have had the earpads replaced, and the cable at least once - I was able to order the parts direct from Sennheiser on the phone (think they were based out around Bluebell at the time). They're about one step behind Triggers Broom at this stage, but still going strong

https://youtu.be/LAh8HryVaeY?feature=shared

magicbastarder

mine are also sennheiser headphones. do i recall that they used to have a factory in monaghan?

i'm just waiting to find out if anyone i know will be placing an order with thomann soon, so i can get the replacement pads without having to pay €15 delivery.

JMcL

mine are also sennheiser headphones. do i recall that they used to have a factory in monaghan?

They did indeed - the boxes used to say "Made in Ireland" - though I think it may have been more the mass market gear and headsets rather than the higher quality stuff. Not quite sure when they stopped, though I'm guessing late '90s at the latest

iamstop

I've some ancient records. Earliest might be 50s or even 40s (70 to 80 years old!). The oldest turntable I have to play them on is about 27 y/o.

ruth...less

I had a small handheld tv with an aerial ran by batteries in the late 80s early 90s..you could get network 2 and rte 1 on it..can't imagine my parents threw it out it must be somewhere in their house.

Rubberchikken

A Sony Walkman bought in US in 1984/5. It was such an eyeopener at the time. Suddenly I could go for a walk while listening to music😁

colm_mcm

Nintendo Entertainment System, around 1990. Still working as well as it did back then.

silliussoddius

Any eight tracks around these days?

My current turntable is from 1973, a re-conditioned Thorens TD-150 Mk II.

My VCR is from 1995. The one in my parents house is from 1986. Both still work fine. They also have a ghettoblaster from 1984 in their kitchen that they use as a radio.

Schnooks

I have an old Zanussi washing machine that was already in the house when I bought it in 1996. And even then it must have been a few years old, as the previous owners surely wouldn't have left it if it was newer, I reckon it is about 30 years old!

It's a clunky old yoke but it still does the job. I doubt it is light on electricity, but haven't noticed any huge consumption either. I have looked in shops so many times and promised myself a new one, but then think, why bother if it is still working ok? We have a a 2nd house in the SE with a much more modern one, and we do most of our washing there. The old biatch is only used about once a week.