Oldies but goodies [Tools & toys]

Tech enthusiasts live in the grip of reverse nostalgia, forever pining for 18 months hence. After all, another way to state Moore\´s Law is "They don\´t make them like they??re going to." But there are some electronic devices that were once made better or cooler. And there\´s a bustling retro-electronics subculture busy cataloging, chronicling, and collecting these old-school gems.