# What are your dearest pieces of old electric/electronical hardware? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 23, 2019, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960 "2019-04-23T23:27:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/41 "2019-04-25T14:21:56Z")
I have a Gameboy that I purchased in 1992. It came with Tetris, and I still play it almost every day. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/42 "2019-04-25T18:10:26Z")
I have a Sansui 5000A tuner/amp and a pair of Kenwood KL880 speakers I bought in Hong Kong in, IIRC, 1969. The FM tuner in the Sansui quit working years ago but It has so many connectors on the back that I still keep it as an amplifier. The speakers, of course, still work as well as ever. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/43 "2019-04-25T21:11:49Z")
I still have the HP-12C financial calculator I purchased in 1985. You can still buy, for all practical purposes, the same calculator, unchanged, from HP for about $50, I think I paid $35 for mine 34 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/44 "2019-04-25T21:39:31Z")
I bought this[JVC HR7300U](https://www.google.com/search?q=jvc+HR+7300+U&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiiw9memuzhAhVB7lQKHWYxDHAQ_AUIDygC&biw=1920&bih=916#imgrc=1qO8qLHcdk2smM:) top loader VHS deck in the early 1980s. It cost around $800 with tax. Painful at the time. I still have it, it still works, and it has out-survived all 3 or 4 decks that followed it. This beast keeps on ticking. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/45 "2019-04-25T22:09:08Z")
> [@campp](#): > > I bought this[JVC HR7300U](https://www.google.com/search?q=jvc+HR+7300+U&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiiw9memuzhAhVB7lQKHWYxDHAQ_AUIDygC&biw=1920&bih=916#imgrc=1qO8qLHcdk2smM:) top loader VHS deck in the early 1980s. It cost around $800 with tax. Painful at the time. > > I still have it, it still works, and it has out-survived all 3 or 4 decks that followed it. This beast keeps on ticking. I’m afraid to ask, but do you still use it? ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/46 "2019-04-25T23:25:57Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > The radio tuner hasn’t been moved off of WBBM Newsradio in at least a decade, and maybe longer. Traffican’ weddertodegger on the eights. > [@minor7flat5](#): > > I have a Fender Rhodes electric piano that was manufactured in '78 stashed somewhere in the back of our church. That is a beautiful instrument to hear, though it is cumbersome to move. > And it’s all electric, with hammers and metal tines and individual pickups (like guitar pickups) for each note. That’s my pick, too. I think mine’s older than yours but I got it in the mid 90s. It’s a Stage 73 and has the factory vibrato. It came with one of the original 300 Watt amplifier cabinets that I didn’t realize was originally a pair until relatively recently. I had the original pedal but it hasn’t been seen in years. The piano has been in my parent’s basement for over 25 years. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/47 "2019-04-26T19:58:56Z")
A Solon soldering iron which my late father stole from the Air Force at the end of WW2. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/48 "2019-04-26T20:41:51Z")
HP-11C Calculator -using it for Donkeys Years, no idea how old it is. AR3-a speakers - 40+ years old and still kicking butt as the mains in the living room. Acoustic 370 Bass Amp - 40 years young. Built like a tank and can drive a 2 Ohm load. Fender Precision Bass - born in '64, so it should be getting Senior discounts. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/49 "2019-04-26T21:07:35Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > Traffican’ weddertodegger on the eights. Absolutely!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960/50 "2019-04-26T23:13:33Z")
> [@Philliam](#): > > Acoustic 370 Bass Amp - 40 years young. Built like a tank and can drive a 2 Ohm load. In 1984 I bought a (used) Ampeg SVT bass amp. It looks just like [this](https://ampeg.com/products/classic/svtvr/images/SVTVR_LG.jpg). I still have it, though I haven’t turned it on in over 20 years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-your-dearest-pieces-of-old-electric-electronical-hardware/832960.md?page=2)