My tiny lathe- a Unimat SL1000 from about 1960. Mine has blown up its motor at some point and has a sewing machine motor bodged on, complete with speed pedal. It’s a ridiculous little thing but I love it, and it’s saved quite a few late night repairs and rebuilds.

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My first SLR was a Zenit 11 and I wanted this kit so badly.

I had a Novaflex on my old Nikon FM and FE for shooting sport. They were great at certain things but had downsides, running to catch a plane and trying to get through check in the security people were rather keen to see what the X-ray showed that looked like a bazooka body with a shoulder stock. Only just made the plane…

Nicer than a Walkman – Panasonic RQS

I love my one of these, over 20 odd years of almost daily usage. Lugged around various Uni halls and rented accommodation and all without missing a beat.

I love my one of these, over 20 odd years of almost daily usage. Lugged around various Uni halls and rented accommodation and all without missing a beat.

I’ve got one of those in daily use too. Even my pc is 10 years old.

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My father in law still uses one like this. Reverse Polish Notation!

Oh, and I have one of these:

Reverse Polish Notation!

At college, we called that “egdelP.”

At college, we called that “egdelP.”

Doogy Rev.

I didn’t have a Sinclair Spectrum but I do have (still in the cupboard at home!) an Oric 48k like this….

Reverse Polish Notation

Once you get used to it, it is difficult to use any other type of calculator.

[video]https://youtu.be/GWyYj5SWN-8[/video]
Lister JP3. Bomb proof, and not even hard to start when in good nick.

Oh and for turntables:
…you’re not going back far enough, this is the shit.

Doogy Rev.

Gronda gronda.

If we’re going down the tool route, I just picked up a Startrite Mercury Mk2 yesterday, only thing it needs are new top cover bumpers, a proper hinge pin and a plate to fill in where the serial number was taken off for whatever reason. Otherwise it’s fine to use immediately though I’ll probably clean it up properly if I get round to it.

I tend not to buy crap, I’d rather not do the job than a bad job.

The Marantz player still has a following in modifier circles. This is (the same as)my Micromega player,not in much use these days unfortunately.

I also had a really tiny sony cassette walkman in the early 90’s which was barely bigger than a cassette box,

Sony Walkman WM10?

The Marantz player still has a following in modifier circles.

How/why does one modify a CD player? Genuinely interested!

Asteroids

(the retro hotel I was skiing in last year, had one. Blast from the 80s!!)

My old technical compasses set from college – still sat on my desk.

Anyone for an amstrad PCW? I have one in my attic carefully stored for when it becomes collectable

a selection of junk orsum stuff within easy reach…

Only the music centre is in regular use (bluetooth enabled), but everything apart from the Sharp radio still works, just not very useful! 🙂

@dragon: my Marantz CD65SE is still going strong too. The drawer is a bit sticky but otherwise fine.

RPN calculators always win because no one ever ‘borrows’ them

The mighty Linn LP12. Mine’s still going strong and still sounds as good as CD

>Asteroids
I had that, ass grapes from space :/

>The drawer is a bit sticky but otherwise fine.
Re-grease the rails for the drawer?

>V8_shin_print
What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?

RE Amstrad:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o1OTwFv7WQ[/video]

What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?

It’s a Libretto. I always wanted one.

Anyone else had one of these?

Got one of these tucked away somewhere.

6gb of MP3 goodness way before Apple turned up and did it properly. The hard drive was nearly as noisy as the music. Took about a month to rip all my CDs and install them. Then it crashed and lost the lot.

This was a little less orsum

Still use HP15C – have done for 30 years, Feels weird going back to normal calc

OK not techie but lets not forget slide rules and log tables

Mention of Asteroids reminded of owning one of these…

Seemed amazing at the time.

How/why does one modify a CD player? Genuinely interested!

Loads of info in this thread about guys keeping old stuff goign and fitting improved components. AFAIK there is a scene also.

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=246353&start=10

The heroic Sony ICF-SW100.

Mine is on my desk here. Ive been thinking of selling it on since I don’t use it for SW BBCWS anymore.

And wot no Laserdisc?

And for those who dont know the scale, that thing is the size of a 72 LP!

I’ve never even heard of Vectrex.
Was it pre ‘Grandstand’?

The Xbox / PlayStations grandad……

There is no spoon….

And strangely, not the inspiration for my username either.

The heroic Sony ICF-SW100.

My father has a very well travelled one! Great piece of kit.

I still have an old Sony Walkman that had a rechargeable battery and retractable headphones – it was a beautiful piece of kit – really minimalistic in styling. I think it cost me something like £80 back in 1990.

Can’t find a damn pic of it online though.

Edit: Got it…

What is that laptop? Some Ultraportable P2 thinggy?

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It’s a Libretto. I always wanted one.

Correct, the Libretto 70CT to be exact. 🙂

Made by Toshiba, Pentium 1, 32 mb ram, 1.6gb hard drive, Windows 95. The mouse is brilliant, there’s a thumb pad to the right of the screen and the buttons are on the back.

I even have adapters for it – ethernet, wifi, floppy drive and docking station!

I’ve never even heard of Vectrex.

Highly sought after these days, if you’ve still got one it’ll easily fetch a couple of hundred quid. True vector display (like an oscilloscope), only monochrome but some games came with transparent coloured overlays to colour in areas of the screen.

And wot no Laserdisc?

Still have mine, along with the Star Wars trilogy box set (and a bunch of others).