What about the Caddy?
Your longest-lived gizmos!
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What about the Caddy?
My longest-lasting piece of machinery is a Kmart box fan that my Dad got during his freshman year of college in 1963. He gave it to me when I went to college in 2002. That thing purred like a kitten until about a month ago, when one of the cats knocked it over. 
The Cadillac as well, though it has only a basic FM radio in it now, as we were trying to sell it for a while and took out the 8 track and later tape deck-FM player. Was going to put the tape deck in the 72 Dodge Dart, but the old add on Sears tape player still works fine. As does its stock AM radio.
I mentioned the 8 track because it is rarer tech than the tape decks.
I still have a perfectly functioning Atari 800XL computer with a couple of 5.25" disk drives (an 810 with a Happy Chip and a 1050 with a US Doubler Chip), still in serviceable order - easily around 30 years old. Those things were really built to last.
I had an unpleasant reminder this month that the Maytag air conditioner current running in my house is now 34 years old.
Also, all of the light switches in the hallway and the upstairs are these bizarre spring loaded pushbutton things with little light bulbs behind them that glow when you push them. I've never seen switches like this in any other house I have ever seen, and to the best of my knowledge those switches were there when my parents moved into that house forty years ago. They could well be the original switches from when the house was first built, which would make them at least 80 years old. We've never changed the bulbs in those switches either -- don't even know how.
Also, I had fun on Mother's Day hanging out at my grandmother's house, playing "Super Bunny" on her old Apple IIe computer. Used to play that game when I was a kid. That makes me just BARELY old enough to remember when the words "floppy disk" and "load program" were real things and not just anachronisms.
Also, all of the light switches in the hallway and the upstairs are these bizarre spring loaded pushbutton things with little light bulbs behind them that glow when you push them. I've never seen switches like this in any other house I have ever seen, and to the best of my knowledge those switches were there when my parents moved into that house forty years ago. They could well be the original switches from when the house was first built, which would make them at least 80 years old. We've never changed the bulbs in those switches either -- don't even know how.
Also, I had fun on Mother's Day hanging out at my grandmother's house, playing "Super Bunny" on her old Apple IIe computer. Used to play that game when I was a kid. That makes me just BARELY old enough to remember when the words "floppy disk" and "load program" were real things and not just anachronisms.
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