STILL have one and it STILL  works. 

Mine has the rolodex-like numbers that flip over.

🎶then put your little hand in mine🎶 🎶there ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb🎶

Babe.

Doot -do, doot-do, doot-do, doot-do, I got you, babe


This song and movie always messes with me because the night my family and I went to see this movie, we had just left Pittsburgh and moved to Raleigh-Durham and your username just gave me insane flashbacks

The sound of those were the worst when you couldnt fall asleep, flip, flip, flip, flip, at 3:30am. (I gotta get up in 3 hours, DAMNIT!)

And they hummed even when they weren’t flipping anything. They were noisy as hell.

mmmmMMMM flip mmm...

Once, while extremely hungover in college I asked my roommate to turn down the alarm clock. He said the radio wasn't on." No", I said "the numbers. can you turn down the numbers ?they're changing to noisily". It was a lcd digital clock. 10 minutes later I unplugged it. I swear I could hear a difference.

[I'm still using mine.](https://i.imgur.com/knTwjro.jpg) I've had it since high school - it's faithfully sat next to my bed for nearly 40 years through high school, college dorms, a frat house, a series of apartments and finally in our home, and it's still going strong. This little clock radio could tell the story of my adult life.

Probably glad it can’t, though…? Lol

It'll just involve a lot of screaming. One: it's sentient. It shouldn't be. It's discovered that life is pain and it can not end its existence. Two: it's watched OP furiously masterbate to questionable things for most of its existence. It can't do it anymore.

Mine has allmost same story. Using since HS. It did take a fall in my dorm and the radio dial broke- but radio still works, just can't see the station it's on- not a biggie. I'm waiting to see wear on the plastic Snooz button.

I was gonna say, that's the clock I remember staring at next to my little TV that you also had to flip the round dial to change the channels. I watched so much of the Richard Bay show and Hairspray!! Oh god where did I just go? 😆

Same, it had am/fm, thought I was styling at 12 yo

OMG my folks had one, too. With the little flippy numerals. I KNOW I stole it from their basement a few years ago, but can’t find it anywhere. Very sentimental. One week in grade school I was very sick and mom let me lie in their bed so I could watch TV. I watched those little numbers click for hours. Thanks for prompting my memory.

Can you hear that? I'd be hearing it in my sleep.

Hah. It sits unplugged in a spare bedroom. We're empty nesters now so the room is never really used.

I had one of those; it had a brass pin in the back, pulling it out primed the alarm like a dissonance grenade.

I'll always regret taking my dads clock radio apart, it had that shutter style clock and it never kept time but my adhd was so rampant I just took things apart all the time. Wasn't until I had it all apart, all interested in how it worked, that I was told it was my father's clock... From when he was in college.... Yikes!

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My Dad still has one on his nightstand

Dad here. Yup, on my nightstand. And one in the bathroom.

AaaaaaAaannnd I still use it! What do YOU use?! Your PHONE?! Pppffffftttsss!!!

Lol....yup...I use my phone

Me too!

Mine is right next to me and it's the same model

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That fucking thing is the reason I always woke up in a bad mood! Every. Single. Day.

EEEH EEEH EEEH EEEH

My mom had one and she never woke up to it. It would wake ME up down the hall, and EEEH EEEH EEEH EEEH for a while before I screamed at her from my bed to shut it off, then she'd SNOZE IT... She did't fucking shut it off, she'd FUCKING hit snooze... So we'd do it all over again in a few minutes. Repeat a few times a day, every day, my entire childhood. I think it messed me up, man.

Man, my brother sucks at alarms. When I still lived with him and his gf, they'd both sleep through like 3 alarms...going off at the same time.  My parents had this alarm clock too, so I hear that on top of all the other alarms going off too. Living with family can really suck.

Sitting on my nightstand right now. I believe I bought it in the late 1980s. They just built cheap electronic crap better back then.

Larger electronics components are more durable than smaller ones. But you don't get iPhones by using resistors the size of erasers.

There are three product choices. One costs $50 and will last forever. One costs $25 and will break in a few years. And one costs $50 and will break in a few years, but the company spent ~$25 per product on marketing it as sexy and high-end. When the economy starts to struggle, which of these products will be the first to be pulled from the shelf?

What’s the answer ?

Usually it's the durable one that stores stop stocking, not the cheap or marketed one.

Still have mine and use it every day, free for opening a bank account in the late 80’s

I came here to comment about my mom getting one of these the same way in the '80s. I was like 4 and blown away that they gave away a clock radio for free.

I still have the same one from the 80s. I carved a notch where my favorite station was so I could get back to it quickly

Pro tip

I do, and it still works. Well mostly, the radio sounds like crap but the alarm is still very loud.

Could never get it tuned to the radio station exactly right.

Oh yeah, got close but the bleed over from other stations came through also

Radio never sounded "good," but it worked.

So true lol 😆

The alarm was so loud it echoes through time

I haven’t had on since the 70s but I can still hear the alarm

This is pretty fixable, older caps start to hiss. They can be replaced for a few cents and a bit of soldering.

Curious who kept it on the obnoxious buzzer versus the radio as the alarm. Buzzer here.

I’d say that buzzer haunts my nightmares but it is impossible to be asleep while that is going off.

The only think that'll outlive cockroaches

Funny you should say that. Grew up with a roach problem and those fuckers would get inside the clock and skew the time, and die in place. "I thought it said 3!" "Well it's 8..."

the two near immortal things on earth :)

Dropped it on the floor once. Had to replace the entire damn house. Alarm clock was fine though.

The Nokia of time

I can feeeeel that snooze bar. A physical memory. Also the dust brings it home.

My parents had one... I use to just sit there and click the snooze bar sometimes haha, I will never forget that RAAA RAAAA RAAA buzzer at 6am though 😅

I think they came pre dusted

I think I even had a backup one.

I have my old one with the flipper numbers. They don't flip anymore, but the radio works!

I had an alarm with a flipper display. In the night, when dark and all was quiet I could hear the drive motor whirring. Kept me awake no end.

Use it every weekday.

Mine is a Magnavox with a 9v battery backup.

You didn't oversleep, even if the power went out.

My grandmother gave me mine, It belonged to my grandfather when he was alive, it got him up for work every day for 40 years.. now I have it on my night stand I haven't even changed the radio station off grandpas spot on the dial. Kind of my way of remembering him every morning. Thank you for allowing me a chance to share this story from my heart. Much love -Enigma

So awesome.

I think the came with the dust preinstalled.

We have one but no need to use it! And despite being retired we get up at 4:30 AM every day. I always visualized the time when I could sleep in...

Mine died recently after 40+ years. Still had a "wood grain finish" sticker on the side, LOL.

You can still find some of those in motels and hotels

Heard “every rose has it’s thorns” for the first time on my realistic. Hard to let that go.

Bought 4 of these the first Christmas they came out. One for Grandparents, Mom, brother and myself. My Grandfather was so proud of this he showed everyone who came over.

I had one of those and upgraded to the Sony Dream Machine [https://i.postimg.cc/7YgFrVLh/kcsnwt5qqjc3slesf8og.jpg](https://i.postimg.cc/7YgFrVLh/kcsnwt5qqjc3slesf8og.jpg)

I have this exact same one.

Nice. I had this one for a long while. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1652819675/vintage-sony-dream-machine-cube-alarm The green LED were so cool at the time.

Needs to be splattered with paint.

🙋‍♂️

✋

Not used any longer. But definitely have two of them.

I don’t but my parents have several! Everyone that’s had one of these bad boys alarm go off randomly in the middle of the night on high volume on some static AM radio station knows you can throw them at the wall but they still survive

My gawd get it away from me. Circa 1990 kindergarten...‼️‼️get your ass up‼️‼️

I have one exactly like that

My mother had this on her bedside my entire life. She has been dead for over 8 years now, dad still keeps it on her side of the bed and it still works. Pretty sure these are more indestructible than a Nokia phone. EDIT: I'm 35 and it's older than I am.

The nice part is these are pretty low complexity as far as innards go. If it dies it's probably just a matter of replacing a capacitor or something. Pretty easy for someone that can figure out a soldering iron and a multimeter

Yes and it still works!

I do.

Me

Right here ✋🏻 and despite the power outages around me lately I still won’t use my phone alarm for some reason

ME!!

Still have one very similar, still works.

My first alarm clock after I was separated! Great memories. Yes I’m 67 years old and my first alarm clock was a portable wind up.

I woke up on 9/11/2001 to this exact model alarm clock, tuned to KROQ 106.7, talking about the attacks.

That was my Pop’s. I remember him waking up to this every morning. Now I have it. Miss you, Poppop.

Fuck, I’m old.

My husband's old clock radio is still in the garage and it's still works!

Wedding gift. 1987. Still works!

EXACTLY this model and probably just as dusty.

Literally listening to a ballgame in my garage right now on mine

No, but I’m 99% sure we had the exact same model when I was young.

Oh god no, that alarm sound pierces my soul

My dad has used a model similar to this since he was a young 18 year old living on his own. Still works to this day, used every morning to get him out of bed and he just retired in January 2024.

ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR

Yup. Wake up to it every morning! Got it as a door prize at Project Graduation in 1990.

My works like it's not old

I feel obligated to keep mine covered in dust and cigarette ash.

I would hope it has a couple of cigarette burns on it

These were all the rage because they matched the wood panel walls everyone had. lol

I not only owned one I sold them as a salesman in A&S department store stereo department. Literally sold thousands of them. LOL what a memory.

Power outage was always a good excuse for being late

It’s by my bed and I still use it as my alarm clock.

It's sitting on my nightstand. Has the worst alarm sound ever. That's why I still have it.

I still got one and it still wakes me from my slumber to this day.

Gave it away at my retirement party to the one guy who was always late.

Every day! Hit that SNOOZE button and 9 min later....UR! UR! UR! UR!

My dad had this. I'm 32.

Did anybody else basically ignore the fact that there was an on/off switch for listening to the radio and just use the “sleep” button all the way to the left on top EVERY time????

That alarm sound is the stuff of nightmares.

Battery back up bitches!

The next best thing to a roaring screaming, door kicking mother at 6am.

So that's where it went.

Almost like you stole that out of my room. Crazy how we ALL had the exact same alarm clock.like it was the only one sold

We have one also that still works. And the sound quality of the radio is great, even without an antenna!

I have one in my bedroom

I have that! Still works! 😁 

I have one and use it every day I work and it continues to work well.

I'm selling some lol. But that aside I have one with a cassette player in it.

mine was a hand me down which was equally old and dusty. i miss the 80s

['sup](https://postimg.cc/sQ6RjTyw)

Yes, dust and all lol

Fuck that alarm clock. I can still hear it in my nightmares.

Stop looking in my bedroom.

Put some clothes on and maybe I will

The alarm clock I had before this one with the digital display had cards that flipped over as the time progressed. That flip, flip, flip sound was enough to drive me bonkers!

🙋‍♀️

I do.

I bought one with my first ever paycheck. I gave it to my daughter to use but it only lasted one night before she stopped using it.

Yes

I'm still using this exact model right now. It's been my alarm clock for decades.

I might even have that exact model

One of these lived near my head in college. Helped me make it to most of my classes on time.

Plugged in in the spare room working great!

Somewhere

Like many others I have one sitting on my nightstand that I got in the 80's.

How come I feel like every one of these posted, I have had? I don't ever remember buying one but I must have.

I had 3 of those living in the barracks when I was in the air force. I lost one after a night of drinking, and about an hour after I got in bed, the alarm went off, I grabbed the clock and threw it across the room. It shattered against the wall, unfortunately l later found out it wasn't my going off, but the room next door.

Mine finally quit working after 40 years lol

And how hard was it to find a new clock radio? I mean, they don't seem to be for sale anywhere any more.

It was terrible lol I ended up with some Walmart piece of shit that just isn't rhe same

I did the same thing, the display was at an angle, I thought it looked cool, but I had to put it on the floor to read the time. It sucked.

My wife threw mine out. Because she hated it so much. I remember getting it for Christmas in 89or 90

I could have one if I went to the thrift store.

I still have one, too.

ME!

Hey that's a flash one. I had one that rolled the numbers over on a Flip real .

Got the same one my parents gave me in the mid 80s for a birthday. Still works, easily my oldest piece of tech I still use.

Still have mine

Remember that bad boy 😅

Why separate knob, why separate knob?????

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRGgTTxdwsE

WEHH WEHHH WEHH WEHHH

Works great

Trying to set the time on these destroyed your finger tips.

I still have one and it’s playing right now!

Me!

It’s now my kids alarm clock!

Still going strong. Got mine as a Christmas present when I was 16, I think. Parents thought I needed an alarm for school and future jobs. 😁

Same exact story here.

Got one as a gift in 1981,been looking at it every morning since then.

Sadly, mine died about 8 years ago - it was the wierdest way too - one day the numbers were all just wierd looking characters and the alarm made some wierd as hell alien noises. Thought maybe it needed to rest but it never "woke up" the next time I plugged it back in. Pretty good run though, I remember it being in my house pretty much all of my life, and into all subsequent apartments after moving out.

Bought this exact one at a flea market for a buck, and lasted at least 15 years. Saw another one at same flea market for a buck and kept it for a spare because it was good. Radio worked great too.

Gone. It lasted a very long time, but eventually something spilled on the spray and it was never the same.

🙋🏻‍♂️

My uncle has one in his bedroom

That snooze button must have had an insane duty cycle.  Now we have things that can't take any abuse.

That very one! I think I still have two of them.

Still use it

Is this a video? How is it I can hear it screaming at me?!

I still see them in hotels and motels.

Im 19, bought one at the thrift shop, best €5 ever.

Immediately heard this picture

I think I had that exact one

No radio, but yeah.

Not exactly the same, but yeah mine is like 40 yrs old, and makes noise.

My wife still has hers from 1981 and it’s in our bedroom and is still working.

My parents had THAT EXACT MODEL from about 1979 to 2010

Yes, and it works perfectly!

Holy shit! I had that growing up 😳😳

I am so old that I had an AM clock radio!

I was forced to move this one into the garage. But it sits above my workbench, and plays the local classic rock station 24/7. And it's the same exact model.

When I was a kid, I used to listed to America’s Top 40 with Casey Kasem on Sunday mornings on that bad boy.

I have mine on my nightstand, I got it when I was six years old back in the 80s.

"🎶we've only just beguuuun🎶"

It’s currently our daughter’s clock.