Not necessarily interesting or worth actively scouting for - but for one thing : this forgotten audio amplifier is still playing today, more than thirty-three years after its initial launch. Unbelievable, isn't it ?

Most of yesterday's audio gear, high-end, low-end, mid-fi, low-fi, ultra-fi, if more or less well cared for, is still doing what it was meant to do and we can still play the x-rare LPs that never were nor will be reissued : put the vinyl on the twangy Thorens TD-125, thump the VN-900, pump up the volume - memories, bliss, surprise, tongue, no tongue... your choice.

Now, transpose that situation into the blazing world of 2045 : first I must try to find a new battery for the old mp3 player my gran'pa gave me on my 12th birthday. Ok - no battery, but suppose I manage to power it up because I know a bit of electronics... What the hell is the compression format that was used ?? Nothing can play that anymore. And that plug (USB ?) - what is it ?? Unless I find an old Hell running the Window$ thing (I think it was named like that - it used to be huge company, really huge). Or maybe an old G5, the one with the Apple on it. But where to find the proper OS that has the built-in codec ? And that's supposing I could have those machines running again... Ah ! Bollocks !

Throw the mp3 player away.
No memories.
No tongue.
No choice.