i'll have you know...
... that my slide rule and log tables are emphatically NOT out of date and redundant.


But for proper oldishness, I have a fob-watch style volt/ammeter, and my m/grandparents carving knife/fork. The cfork even has one of those fold-out lever things, and the knife had been sharpened so often it is more of a spike.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:22, 5 replies)

although
I don't actually own a slide rule, which is a shame really. But my 30yr old casio fx3600p is going just fine.

But I do use the log tables, for all the trig and stats identities at the back.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:24, closed)

I think you'll find
They've changed maths since then.
( riverghost servicing your mum since, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:25, closed)

hmm
I'm sure the trig identities are still the same though :-)
(haberman is singing in the changes, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 11:34, closed)

They're not
It has been shown since that triangles actually have 2.99973 sides.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 13:11, closed)

seriously?
are you winding us the fuck up?
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 6 Nov 2010, 13:57, closed)

Surely
I'm not seen as some sort of authority on maths to be that convincing.

Besides, it was 3.00015 sides.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 15:03, closed)