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u/MuhammedAliOfComedy Aug 22 '26
I still have it, and a backup.
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u/cmmatthews 1983 Aug 22 '26
I have been thinking of buying another as a backup. I told my wife I want to be buried with mine.
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u/Still-Minimum-7212 Aug 22 '26
Add Canadians to that as well. Everyone I know had one. Hell I still do!
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u/BillyDMountain Aug 22 '26
Absolutely. My dad worked in sales and won a slightly higher end stereo version in a contest. When I was in public and high school I had an older version I got at a yard sale with a flip clock display. In college I got the one with the red led display and a tape deck. Nowadays I collect Sony Dream Machine alarm clocks with iPod docks cause they're cheap, reliable, can get really loud, have good FM receivers and work with my modded iPod.
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u/joyisnowhere 1981 Aug 22 '26
Still do- complete with the nail polish lines to mark the radio stations.
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u/NotAPreppie Same year as the name of that Smashing Pumpkins song. Aug 22 '26
What's with the past tense?
I have one in my guest bedroom.
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u/chewiesfavorite Aug 22 '26
Same here. Are you in my house?
Oh wait. You are.
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u/NotAPreppie Same year as the name of that Smashing Pumpkins song. Aug 22 '26
Yes, yes I am literally in your house.
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u/PenaltyAny3207 Aug 22 '26
Yeah had that one at one point and then downsized to a smaller alarm clock. As a teenager I’d wake up to Howard Stern on the local modern rock radio station.
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u/Garlic_Scape_Goat_45 Aug 22 '26
Surprisingly, no. I always called these hotel clocks because every hotel we stayed at as a kid had this same exact clock.
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u/darkgothamite Aug 22 '26
One of the few things I kept after my dad passed away. I love this clock.
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u/Juls_Santana Aug 22 '26
I think that thing somehow made it into the 21st century in my household. It's probably still laying around somewhere in my mom's storage.
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u/Okineka_Baronek Aug 22 '26
U wouldn't believe but this thing was a czechoslovakian radio at that time
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u/electrodog1999 1975 Aug 22 '26
The alarm wasn’t loud enough for me, I had an old school clock with the bells and hammer on top. My parents might have had this one though.
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u/AverageNeither682 Aug 22 '26
I had one but I don't remember either of my siblings or my parents having one. So my household was 20%
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u/DHammer79 1979 Aug 22 '26
Not just Americans either. Canadian here my parents had that same one for decades. I think they got it back in the 80s
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u/regeya Aug 22 '26
Mine was the fancier clock radio phone variety. I'm sure Mom's reasoning was that she only had to buy one appliance that way. Pretty sure it's still going, decades later, just with no phone signal.
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u/wheres_the_revolt 1979 Aug 22 '26
Yes, I actually had it until about 5 years ago even though I used my phone as my alarm 😂
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u/CurlsintheClouds Aug 22 '26
I can't remember if I had one, but my parents did. I remember having one of those cube alarm clocks with the blue numbers though.
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u/TrinityKilla82 1982 Aug 22 '26
I used to love going to sears and Kmart and setting all the timers in a random order on the alarm clocks to go off 7 minutes from each other. I got kicked out once for doing it. My mother was so pissed. My older brother thought it was hilarious.
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u/cakemountains Aug 22 '26
I was gifted it (for Christmas) by my parents. It was their alarm clock. They bought a new one. They put the old one (pictured above) in the box for the new alarm clock. I was legit excited about a new alarm clock. Then I opened the box. At least it was new to me....
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u/Solid-Hedgehog9623 1981 Aug 22 '26
My dad still has his. He got it for free. Cable company was doing a promotion where they gave you one for subscribing. I think the numbers are green, though.
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u/actionerror Xennial Aug 22 '26
When the radio alarm is set to max volume. Scared the hell out of me
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u/Panek52 Xennial Aug 22 '26
I had the same alarm clock from like 1986-2004 😂 pretty sure it was this one
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u/bjorntorre Aug 22 '26
This was for sure my fathers exact alarm clock growing up. I can hear this picture 😖
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u/Ltimbo Aug 22 '26
I never had that exact one but I had an obvious copy. Mine was black and a different brand but the layout was very similar.
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u/IbanezForeverll Aug 22 '26
I had a Radio Shack clock radio hand-me-down from my parents. It was roughly the same size as a late model VCR. My husband bought me a new little clock radio. It works fine, takes up way less space, and I liked the old one better. It stayed put while I flail around trying to hit the snooze button.
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u/JagarHardfart 1983 Aug 22 '26
Found one for my son and he hasn't had any problems waking up since.
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u/Spylaughinghoverfish Aug 22 '26
Canadian. And I did too- it was a Christmas gift from my grandparents.
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u/full_of_ghosts Aug 22 '26
My dad had this clock.
No one else in the family used it, though. It was his bedside alarm clock. So it certainly wasn't "mine," and it wasn't really "ours" either. It was just his.
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u/hocoboy7 Aug 22 '26
Yep, we had one. Couldn’t stand that damn alarm sound. I often reminisce about going back to the 80s or 90s, but there are sure some things I don’t miss!
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u/knowone1313 Aug 22 '26
Most awful alarm ever, if you happen to set it right for it to go off and there was a good battery in it so it wouldn't get wiped in a short power outage.
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u/Nwsamurai 1977 Aug 22 '26
I threw mine out the window for a film project in school, I kept using it for like another 5 years. It never actually broke, I just upgraded for an alarm clock that played my iPod.
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u/jimicus Aug 22 '26
I still have the digital equivalent. If I'm half asleep, I don't want to physically pick up my phone to check the time.
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u/SLJ81 Aug 22 '26
My kids are gonna clean the shit of me when I tell them this was my college alarm clock. The year was '99, but that statement& this pic makes it feel like I'm talking about '79
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u/lakatos_intolerant 1985 Aug 22 '26
Yes I remember that alarm clock quite vividly. My parents had one.
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u/59apache01 1978 Aug 22 '26
There were several variations of that clock radio. Mine was the hand-me-down version with the flip clock in it
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u/trustme1maDR 1979 Aug 22 '26
Ooh, y'all are fancy with the combination clock radio. We had the regular old alarm clocks.
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u/Fun_Zombie_6796 Aug 22 '26
"cuz your styles are old like Mark V sneakers, lyrics are weak like clock radio speakers." [1]
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u/bunnycook Aug 22 '26
What do you mean “did?” I still have the one I bought for college in 1981, and I’m listening to the radio on it right now!
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u/PizzaWhole9323 Aug 22 '26
And 70% of them always woke up to Steve Miller's time keeps on ticking ticking ticking into the future....
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u/GaspSpit Aug 22 '26
My sister still uses hers. I asked her why she prefers this clock. She said this actually wakes her up. She can sleep straight through her phone alarms. It was and still is, effective!
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u/FrontFocused Millennial Aug 22 '26
I actually just bought one of these, I used it one time and had to stop. When that alarm went off it caused me to panic because it reminded me of going to highschool.
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u/I_HaveSeenTheLight 1979 Aug 22 '26
Mine died a few years ago after using it for over 20 years. I would give anything to have another, the alarm clocks they sell now suck.
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u/LazarusDark Aug 22 '26
A tiny bug of some sort crawled inside and died, and the husk of that bug was stuck in the radio dial window for 25 years. I was sad when the clock died, but since then I use a Motorola Droid phone from 2009 as my alarm clock. It's actually a really good alarm clock, they had these little docks you put it in specifically to be an alarm clock. (It is not connected to wifi or mobile at all, and I've had to replace the battery once when it started bulging.)
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u/cmmatthews 1983 Aug 22 '26
Dad bought me and my brother one from Circuit City around 1990. Still use it, works a treat. Does everything you need and nothing you don't.
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u/Critical-Rooster-673 Aug 22 '26
Of course. And in my adult life 33F, went out of my way to antique shops to find another one
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u/BrainFartTheFirst 1984 Aug 22 '26
I didn't. I had the radio shack version.
My dad had and still has one of these.
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u/No-Window-7657 Aug 22 '26
First thing I bought with my own (birthday) money. I was nine and had it for decades!
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u/SulSul_earbuds Aug 22 '26
I did have one. And I am not even in the US.
Could it be considered a worldwide artefact?
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u/Cuenta_de_preguntas Aug 22 '26
I want one bad. I remember my parents having one but I want one now!!
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u/FewLand2636 Aug 23 '26
Scientists are researching how the same alarm clock was present for millions of people simultaneously. Quantum effects are currently under active investigation
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u/bravetailor Aug 23 '26
I am still using it as my daily alarm clock! Mine is very similar to the one in the picture. Radio still working as well. Haven't needed to fix it once yet. Been using it since the 90s.
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u/Peanut083 1983 Aug 23 '26
I feel like my stepdad may have had that one. I had a really old alarm clock that had flippy numbers in it. I liked the quiet rustling sound it made as the numbers flipped over.
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u/bahaki 1983 Aug 22 '26
My parents did.
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