Chris Green

These Days , your shiny new gadget is likely to be obsolete by software updates (or lack thereof), before it was physically silent.

A recent report by the consumer campaign group Which? proposes, if the brand behind it is the provision of software updates, and support is holding.

Now, that doesn't work on its own-branded older devices.

And this prompted me to casually mention on Twitter that I have a 12-year-old TV. To feel

to me better, I also asked to divide the people, and for their elders to work gadgets.

a sluice is opened.

Made in The Days before software updates, Operating Systems , and security gaps were part of the ecosystem, they are all Still Going Strong .

Kitchen Gadgets were built to last, with a series of 20-, 30-, 40 - and even 50-year-old kidnapped and mixer pride is shown, together with a 20-year-old Breville sandwich toaster, a rice cooker, from the early 1990s, and a 33-year-old Braun juicer.

Kate Bevan has a 30-year-old washing machine.

Rachel Rogers has a functioning toaster that belonged to her grandmother, from 1925.

And the broadcaster Mariella Frostrup has a 25-year-old Magimix kitchen machine.

Mary Branscombe , writing: "dishwasher of 1996, a fridge and a washing machine is from 1997 - But the Braun hand blender is from the early 90s. And of course, my mid-80s sandwich toaster from college is Still Going Strong . "

Sarah is Still with a ray of Sun iron she received as A Wedding gift in 1977, the "lasted longer than The Marriage ".

And Sue says: "My Prestige High Dome Pressure Cooker as a Christmas gift, the 1975, is Still in use. My Mother is the same, from the Christmas of 1953, was passed Six Years ago, Still good. "

A surprising number of Nintendo Game Boys (established in 1989) and the occasional NES (Nintendo Entertainment System, in 1983) to be started is currently on the heart and kidneys checked.

Chris Green is Still playing on a 37-year-old Zx Spectrum .

Jorn Madslien the teenage son has acquired his mother Binatone console from the early 1980s.

And Peter Gotthard the Sega Mega Drive is "Coming Up for 30, and Still works perfectly".

Ewan Spence Still uses a Psion organiser of 1993.

And the amine was using the same memory stick since 2005.

"This little stick has a 'save me up" since before I can remember," he says.

"It's broken, and I repaired it with superglue, many years ago. "

There are also A Number of vintage computers Still in Service , one of the top Prof Moataz Attallah.

"My father bought it for me in 1997 from France - hence the name, Graphique Couleur," he says.

"It can plot graphs, make calculations, and much more, with 64KB".

Meanwhile, Peter gilling water is Casio FX-602P, which he bought in 1981, Still works.

And Paul Marks with his Casio FX-29 computer, since he got it, in 1977.

"well-Equipped in the knee pockets of high-waisters - who to remember?", he asks.

a Lot of iPods, Sony walkman and hi-fis are Still in order, along with the occasional mini-Disc player and a 1960s HMV Record Player .

"Work, probably the Vestax recorder that I've had since the early 90s," Keith Devereux unused says, "well, since I can't really get, audio cassettes and more. Currently in use? Certainly the good old iPod from the early 2000s. "

Sean Mcmanus says: "My Amstrad CPC 464 computer from 1984 Still works fine.

"I have some music keyboards from the mid-80s and early 90s. "

And restaurant critic Jay Rayner asks: "is it a Yamaha Clavinova Digital Piano , the 1993 count?"

There are also a variety of work FM-radio, Record Player , early digital radios and speakers.

"As a hardware life cycles are becoming shorter and shorter, with some even measured in months, not years, it is easy to think that Most People just want to Know just says the current version of a product," Wired UK executive editor Jeremy.

"Now, this view may have value in the world of laptops and smartphones, But sometimes the older products have better components, better design and a better life are simply better.

"Hi-fi gear shows This Time and again.

"A new Bluetooth speaker can rates the latest software and chip But that will not mean it is superior.

"I Still use a TV-sound-system came out in 2009.

"And I have yet to find to which sounds better or works as seamlessly. "

But , some of the older gadgets a little bit of 21st-Century magic might need to.

Martin Smith, host of the YouTube channel from Old Tech to New spec from, modified the old equipment that continue to to services to to be in today's world.

On his wall At Home a Hitachi CRT-TV from the year 1975, which he converted to is to stream digital video.

"In his heart, the old technique was really bulky and modern technology is really tiny," he says, "so you have more room in the interior of an old device in order to change it.

"can you fit Something New , like a Raspberry Pi or an Arduino, so it works as it should, But in a modern Way . "

Source of news: bbc.com