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Top 10 “Old” Gadgets I Would Use at Least Once Again

Posted February 26th, 2008 by Alex Ion

Not sure about you but I remember the “gadgets” of my childhood and I miss seeing them again. I would be really happy to use them just one more time. It would be really fun, though many of them may not work with the technology we have nowadays.

So here is what I miss the most.

1. A rotary phone

Rotary phone

I really had one when I was a kid. The first time I learned how to use the rotary I was very happy and for 3 hours I called all my buddies just to use it. I’m also sure it would still be fun to use one, but I think it’s only a Pulse version.

2. AM Radios

Retro AM radio
photo by BlazerMan

The first one I had was a GE T1151-B AM radio. I’m not that old as the radio but I got it from my grandfather and it was in a perfect condition. It’s now stacked up in the country, but I can bet my money if I were to put it on, it would work really well.

3. Reel-to-reel tape recorder

Reel-to-reel tape recorder
picture by captainsticky

This is the device I used at my first big birth-day party where it played all evening. My uncle had one and I had to watch him using it for at least one year before he allowed me to use it. You were supposed to be very careful with the tape.

4. A diamant TV set

Diamant TV setAt the time I was interested in cartoons there were no color TVs and if they were later introduced to the market, but the price was incredible high so my family couldn’t afford one. We had a diamant TV set, with manually tuning and from 7.30 to 8.30 pm this was my best friend. Tom & Jerry ruled.
I really wonder how a HD movie would look on something like that if I would be able to connect it. (photo by hilla)

5. A soviet camera

Russian cameras
photo by Idle Type

The soviets were top manufacturers back then for cameras and my parents had a Zorki while my uncle had a Smena. I remember that the pictures came out almost perfect with great colors and no blur. Just great. There was one small drawback. When you had to take the film out you were supposed to do it in the dark or the pictures would have been lost.

I’d sure like to use one again.

6. A tetris game

cheap tetris gameI remember I had one of these. It was cheap gadget but a great time killer. I used to take it with me when I was going on a bus-trip. I was competing against my father for the highest score.

Though, these days we have tetris on the iPhone or on the iPod I would sure like to power the old baby one more time and break the record. (photo by yelinna)

Did you have one of these?

7. A tamagochi game

Tamagochi gameSo fun. It is a digital pet that we were supposed to feed, play games with or clean up. In a simple egg-shaped computer with a few buttons all of these were possible.

The company that invented the Tamagochi game is Bandai and because of the success the game had from 1996 when launched it was improved every year (until today).

Why I would power it one more time is obvious. To see if I can manage it as I did while I was a kid.

8. The old home computer

CIP-03 by Electronica

You probably had a Commodore computer or a ZX-Spectrum, but the one I had was dubbed CIP-03 was produced by a Romanian company and was running on Basic-s. This was my first encounter with computer games. My favorite games were Renegade (1 and 2), Chuckie Egg (1 and 2) and Saboteur (1 and 2) but I had limited access to them, only after finishing my homeworks.

Playing these games again on my old computer would be awesome.

9. The fancy fridge

Rusty Retro-Old Fridge
photo by circa70

This would make a great addition to my living room so I’m not sure if I would power it just once. If I were to have a rusty /old fridge I would invest a few bucks to make it work and look shinny again. Then I’d fill it with beer. A piece of furniture filled with beer, sounds right don’t you think?

10. A PEGAS bicycle

Pegas bicyclePegas? I hear you asking. It’s a -bicycle launched in the `80s that was very popular when I was young. The kid that had one of these was the one because everyone was asking for a quick ride. It had no speeds, the breaks were not great but we still loved it.

It would be fun to use my Pegas bicycle in the park, on a weekend. I wonder what would those with high-tech bikes would say. (photo by oohp)

These are my top 10 picks but I’m sure you guys have more to add. Put it in comments below.



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  • 12 Responses to “Top 10 “Old” Gadgets I Would Use at Least Once Again”

    1. pethead Says:

      I’d like to write on an old type-writer from time to time. Dunno why but the sound it makes when pressing a key is much more appealing than a laptop or a PC keyboard.

    2. Armata Ultra Says:

      My first computer was a Commodore 64. The good old days!

    3. StevenMcD Says:

      Surprisingly enough, I still have a Rotary phone that works 100%. Irritating as hell to call someone though when your finger slips ;)

    4. Matthew Johnson Says:

      My parents still have one of the refrigerators – it’s in the garage now, but I believe that it is still used around big family holidays. when LOTS of food needs to be stored.

    5. Crosley radio Says:

      I love that red rotary phone!

    6. George Says:

      I just wish my wife would go retro, about 20 yrs. Just to retro poke her again

    7. George Says:

      Boy, that gals tits would bounce when she rode me

    8. John Michael Says:

      love the reel recorder! awesome post!

    9. kimmy Says:

      I still have an original Zenit camera. Completely manual and still takes great pictures.
      We came to Canada from Denmark in ‘57 and in ‘59 we moved to Kitchener and my father bought a used Frigidaire fridge. In ‘71 he gave it to a family friend’s son. In ‘06 he called and told us that the fridge was still working.
      There is no quality anymore.

    10. Uncle B Says:

      Astounding the piles of crap we subject our landfills to each year! Never satisfied, the little hairless monkeys fed the earth great gobs of garbage until she stopped producing the very food to little monkeys ate! It happened in America first, where Mother Nature turned against the unsustainable Great Hulking American Neanderthal, product of corporatist over-feeding for the exploitation of the easy American resources – once the resources had diminished, he was forsaken by the corporatists for lighter, faster, Asians in factories there, and now languors in soup kitchens and faces certain extermination as an unemployable, in an America where the American Medical Cartel demands you work to receive humane treatment or die even without dressings for weeping wounds, morphine for deaths pains, in cold slums! The folks who consumed the products of which you speak died with them, and now a whole sub-race dies too, as Asians take over in innovations with higher productivity – but who will buy their products once the Great Hulking American Neanderthal is gone? Who else so foolish, so gullible, so propagandizable to take his place? Certainly not the frugal Asian, after higher education, their sole and sharp focus! The Uber -Rich left in America I suppose, albeit on a mush lesser scale! the times they are a’ changing!

    11. James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil Says:

      Bicycles have “brakes”. “Breaks” are what happen when you have a bad fall from one.

      From reading these, it’s obvious that you are still very young. It’s also obvious from your writing that the “Dumbing down of America” started in time to catch you.

    12. Capt. Obvious Says:

      So let me get this straight… You were a kid, both before color televisions were sold, and in 1996 when the tamogachi was released?

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