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Adding machines...1980, both the glass plant and the railroad I worked for still used them
Record players...still have classic vinyl to listen to
Typewriters...mid 90's
Cassette tapes (audio)...still have one in my truck and in the house
Engines with carbeurators...1984
VHS...still use at both home and class
Beepers / pagers...1980 when I left the railroad and wasn't on call any longer
Dial-up modems...still have as backup
Film cameras...still have one although not much for picture taking in any case, daughter still uses film for her "artistic" work in black and white.
CD...still have them
CRT displays (monitors and TVs)...watching the news on one right now. Computer at work still has one.
Landline telephones...still have one
AM radio...still occasionally when traveling and can't get FM signal or can't find a station I want to listen to.
Incandescent lighting...still most of my lighting at home. Mrs. NBP doesn't like the fluoro light quality.
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Being involved in emergency planning and management I'd like to state that anyone who gives up a land line phone is a fool. In many emergency incidents, especially those related to weather, cell towers are the first to go down, or get jammed. The jamming is so bad people in emergency management have a special code (GETS) that knocks civilian users off the cell so emergency communications between agencies can get through.
Record players...I still have one, but I haven't actually used it in about 2 - 3 years.
Typewriters...1994. Even then, it was only because for certain labels it was just easier than trying to align something in the printer
Cassette tapes (audio)...Late 90s
Engines with carbeurators...Beats me
VHS...Well, I actually owned one until 2006, but I'm not sure how long it had been since I had used it.
Beepers / pagers...Never
Dial-up modems...2000. I held out a long time from getting broadband because of the cost.
Film cameras...2007
CD...Still Use. But very rarely.
CRT displays (monitors and TVs)...Still use for my TV. Gave up my CRT on the computer around 2004
Landline telephones...Still Use. Don't have a cell phone!
AM radio...Still Use. Nothing is better for insomnia than listening to a late night sermon on the Calvinist doctrine of Predestination. I wish our local religious station had more sermonizing and less music.
Incandescent lighting...They will have to pry it out of my cold, dead, hands! Or at least find a substitute that doesn't require a HazMat suit.
I have to wonder if some of you are calling pocket calculators adding machines? Because to me, an adding machine is a typewriter type device where you turn a crank to add the numbers. Pocket calculors became affordable sometime around 72 or 74 and rapidly made them obsolete.
Adding machines were never in common use during times I would have used them.
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Record players...
My parents had one they used a lot and I used occasionally. I'd guess it stopped being a regular part of my music experience in about 1990.
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Typewriters...
Probably 1989.
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Cassette tapes (audio)...
About 1998. Used occasionally for specific things until about 2006.
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Engines with carbeurators...
I don't think I ever had or regularly drove a car with one.
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VHS...
1998 probably.
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Beepers / pagers...
2004.
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Dial-up modems...
1997, roughly.
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Film cameras...
I used film cameras until about 2002.
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CD...
Still occasionally use CD. Never been a huge recorded music user, but stopped using them regularly in probably 2000.
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CRT displays (monitors and TVs)...
I haven't owned a CRT for a computer since 2004. I kept my CRT TV until 2011.
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Landline telephones...
Haven't had one since 2004.
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AM radio...
Never been big on radio, so not sure there's a meaningful date.
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Incandescent lighting...
Still have some. So far, still looks best on my bathroom vanity.
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