Much redundant tech lives in my hovel, including...
A C.R.T. television (colour - it isn't that old!)

A chemistry text-book from 1911. Interestingly, almost all of the measurements are in metric, although it is written somewhere in it that a sovereign coin made of (pure) gold can be hammered into a 50 sq. foot sheet less than 1 - 250,000TH of an inch thick.

A steel foot rule made in Birmingham, accurate to 1 - 64TH (0·015625) of an inch - no metric measure on it at all.*

A 50-foot tape measure, again no metric measure any where on it. Both measuring devices are probably from the 1950s.

A copy of the "Mechanical World Year Book - 1954".

Two slide-rules, one about twice as big as the other. The bigger one is from 1952 and has trig. formulae printed on the reverse. The smaller one has only sine, cosine, tan. and cotan. values on it and I now believe it to be of similar age.

Several reels of film from the early 1960s, one of which is audio. The others, unsurprisingly have no sound.

A Zippo. These appear to have largely been replaced by cheap disposable lighters. I only bought it (brand new) in July, and it takes proper lighter-fluid, not butane. Nothing quite beats flicking it open and reciting that eternal Die Hard quote...

I still hand write a lot of things, and my hand writing is quite illegible at times.

I also occasionally use wax seals (I melt the wax with my out-dated Zippo) on some things.

Sadly my eight-year-old Compaq conked out (NMI Parity Check, whatever that is) not that long ago. I spent £79·99 on a new (A.T.I. Radeon 9,600) graphics card for the ungrateful bastard-machine too!

I have a hack saw (again, probably 1950s - a lot of my stuff is from that time) which goes through most things in half the time a modern saw would take.

And worst of all...

Some tungsten-filament light bulbs. Come and get me, Europhiles.


*I also discovered that the rule is bloody great for threatening first years with when they pass comment about your mother and you have no witty reply. If only I had the balls to actually hit one of them... :(

Also, will someone please re-introduce top hats and the word "thrice" into every day usage?

Length? Varies from item to item, but can be measured accurate to 0·015625 of an inch.
( Awk Industries is actually a helic- NO, STAY BACK SHARK!, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 19:54, 1 reply)

Hmmmm
"I also discovered that the rule is bloody great for threatening first years with when they pass comment about your mother and you have no witty reply."

Is that really any way for a teacher to behave?
(Rsoles, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 17:31, closed)

Erm,
At no point was it mentioned that I was a teacher.
( Awk Industries is actually a helic- NO, STAY BACK SHARK!, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 19:26, closed)