I am amazed by my digital alarm clock. I got it in the late 70’s and it has functioned flawlessly 24 hours a day, 365 day a year since! It came from Sears and has little touch-sensitive thingys for snooze or off. What amazes me about the clock is that no LED segments are burned out, the switchs to set alarm and time still work, and the touch panels still work. It blows my mind! I don’t know what I’m gonna do when I have to replace it! I still use the Track 2 razor handle I got the same christmas, too.
Change for change sake is not a good thing.
Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore.
I have a Beastie Boys tape from 1986. It has never been taken out of the cars I’ve owned. Whenever I bought a new car, I emptied the glove box and transferred the items.
It’s about 17 years old, has been in everything from -10 degree weather to 105 degree weather (and even hotter car interiors).
It survived my first car and first real girlfriend, to my current vehicle and my wife and two kids.
1986: bought Beastie Boys tape, kept in 1985 TransAm until 1988
1988: tranfer tape to 1988 Dodge Daytona Shelby Z
1996: transfer tape to 1996 Subura Legacy
1997: transfer tape to 1995 Mustang GT
2000: transfer tape to 2001 Dakota Quad Cab
2003: Post message in SDMB about tape
Plays clean, hiss free music without garbles. Heavy bass is clean and crisp.
Well, I’ve been using the same digital alarm clock since 1977. It’s got that tacky wood-grain plastic housing that was so popular back then but still works.
My receiver and speakers are from 1980 and still going strong and they get regular use. It’s an odd brand too; MCS, a JC Penny house brand.
I have a floor radio from 1936 that still works but I don’t know if it counts here since it doesn’t get regular use. Same thing with a VCR I bought in 1980, the Atari 800 home computer I bought in 1981 or the Mac Plus I’ve had since 1987; they only get used once in a blue moon these days.
coyasicanbe, it must be something about Toshibas. I’ve still got the Toshiba television I bought not long after I moved to Hawaii in 1987. Like yours, it doesn’t get channels above 50, and it never had a remote, but it still works as well as it did the day I brought it home to Waikiki on the bus, and that’s quite well indeed. Not bad for a $200 cheapie!
Ah, yes, Le Menu frozen entrees. Very popular in the 1980’s. Elementary/middle school art teachers love these plates for use as paint palates, so many have been rendered unusable for human consumption, yadda yadda. IIRC, some of these plates were a rounded square shape; a very asthetically pleasing design that the folks who devised this packaging surely intended.
I’d just like to point out that if I said something like this and my wife found out about it, she would choke me to death with her bare hands.
I have several plastic “dishwasher safe” cups that I gathered after a Cardinals baseball game back in the early 80s that I still use regularly. My wife calls them my “holy nuggets” b/c I refuse to get rid of them, even though you can barely read them any more. However, they are three times stronger than the promotional “take it home” cups you get nowadays.
A pair of faded but beloved plastic Foster’s beer cups from 1990, treasured souvenirs from a Foster’s Cup exhibition game in Portland, Oregon between North Melborne and the West Coast Eagles. North romped, but as a newspaper reporter, I conned my way into the broadcast booth and Eagle Peter Sumich (who had been benched by the tribunal for an infraction in a previous game) brought me a Foster’s. Talk about feeling goood!
