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paulzolo
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Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC tech corespondent on just asked on Twitter for pictures of ancient devices. He is doing something about tech from the naughties (following fast on the Gadget Show, I think). But he posted a picture of a 1st gen GameBoy, so I guess he means ancient to be “as far back in time as you can go”. So I dug out my old Z88.  It still works, though the batteries I put in it didn’t have enough juice to access the EPROM, so who knows what ancient essay fragments are there... So, what’s your oldest bit of kit (this isn’t it - older stuff at my parents’ house)? Photos encouraged.
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big_D
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Fogmeister
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I have a Canon QL 25 at home. It used to be my Grandpa's and he said I could use it.  It was manufactured in 1965 so that makes it fairly old 
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big_D
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I have a 1940s microscope and a 30s camera at home...
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HeatherKay
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Best Beloved has an old German SLR, as well as a couple of old box cameras. I'll see if I can get some photos sorted later.
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brataccas
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John_Vella
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I've got an old Praktica SLR at home... I think it's an ML5 Haven't got any pictures of it though
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Spreadie
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I have a couple of ZX81s, and a 300 baud modem, in the loft.
I think my old Atari 2600 is still in my parent's loft.
Thats about the oldest tech I have.
OT, I do have a 69 year old packet of cigarettes.
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big_D
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My brother had the MTL5, I still have my MTL3 at home. To be honest, I took better pictures with that than I have with the Canon EOS... 
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John_Vella
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Yep, that's the one... the MTL5, and I have taken some cracking pictures with it... manual everything FTW!  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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tombolt
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In the computer category, it would be my ZX Spectrum 48k+.
In the camera category, it would be my Asahi Pentax S3.
I'll see if I can get pictures later, the Spectrum is in the garage which is a bit of a pain.
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belchingmatt
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I thought you were talking about ancient. 
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big_D
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I'd almost forgotten, my Memotech MTX500 is sitting in a shop window in Stadthagen, it still works - I think... 
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timark_uk
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soddit112
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i have a windows 3.1 PC at my dads house, i think its a Pentium DX? used to work, but we think the hard drive got corrupted, so we took it apart also have an atari GX4000 at dads, still functioning AFAIK, not sure which is older
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