Oldest piece of machinery in your office

[Skunkwourk]

So what is it?

My printer is a Laserjet 4M Plus and actually gets the "PC Load Letter" error.

 

[DingDingDao]

We have an Epson dot-matrix printer in here from who-knows-when. I'm amazed that the paper (connected and perforated) is still available.

 

[Barfo]

My boss.

 

[coldmeat]

My Xbox 360

edit: I thought you meant home office.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: DingDingDao
We have an Epson dot-matrix printer in here from who-knows-when. I'm amazed that the paper (connected and perforated) is still available.

Dot matrix is still used for special purpose applications. We had one much longer than necessary. They're so damned LOUD :^(

 

[Porter21]

Laserjet 6 printer probably, most stuff is updated.

 

[So]

I have a tape dispenser that I'm pretty sure is from the 60s. My file cabinet is definitely from the 70s. Electronics? Nothing pre-millenium.

 

[MrWizzard]

We have one of these, Adding machine

And one of these LINK2

No one uses them but they cold if they really wanted too....heh

 

[JJ650]

In the office everything is relatively new, but out in the shop there is a press break that is 1930's production.

 

[bobsmith1492]

1970s oscilloscope and audio analyzer

 

[ivan2]

some casio calculator that you have to plug into the wall to use and prints out a scroll as you type.

 

[gdextreme]

Originally posted by: Barfo
My boss.

Haha! you just made my day!

 

[MrPickins]

I've got a slide rule, if that counts.

 

[PricklyPete]

I am a consultant who has only worked in his office one day this whole year...and most of that day was spent on a plane flying to the office and then flying back home. I don't keep anything of significance there...but I'm sure there is some stapler or post it note that dates back a year or two.

 

[ultimatebob]

Hmm... downstairs on the factory floor they have some manufacturing equipment that dates back to 1960's. Up here in the office area, I think that we have some old Pentium III era systems from the late 1990's in the QA area.... with PS/2 keyboards and 15" CRT monitors. Wow... that stuff is junk.

 

[Modelworks]

Laserjet printer definitely, made in 1996. Paid $20 for two of them , both still work with pages printed in the 500K range. Don't make em like that anymore.

 

[AreaCode707]

Electric typewriter, probably from the 70s.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

There's some platters laying around from some old school harddrives they're the size of music records and weigh a ton. They hold like 50 mb I think.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Not sure if it qualifies in our machinery / technology requirement, but I have a clipboard from 1969 about maintenance and servicing of vaporizers
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=38&threadid=2293114

 

[Possessed Freak]

This Thing

 

[imported_Imp]

Probably not my 15" CRT monitor. After having a 19" LCD for two months straight at my last job, this is shit. Adding insult to injury is that my machine is C2D, but can't run googlemaps smoothly due to limited memory and crappy graphics card.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Hmmm ..... The Model M keyboard that I brought from home was made in 89. Probably the oldest thing here.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I have a working Monroe 2805 adding machine. I looked inside it once and it's full of mechanical parts. I guess it does its adding the same way Babbage's original mechanical computer did. I dunno how old it is, but the user's manual is copyrighted in 1971.

Edit: I still use it every day.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Oldest thing in our entire dept is probably the coffee pot at around 3 years