I had an early '70s Sony Digimatic radio flipclock model TFM-C380W flipclockfans.com/forum… .  It ran out in the barn at my folks' place for years, and I recently brought it in, cleaned it up and oiled the flip mechanism, and it still works great.

In the early '80s, I then upgraded to a GE 4885 radiomuseum.org/r/gener… , which is still running today, albeit with a few sticky keys.  It really has amazing sound.

My younger sister always had a plain old alarm clock, until she bought herself the classic GE Digital Clock Radio with the red LED display (the GE 7-4612A radiomuseum.org/r/gener… ) that's the subject of this discussion.  It was actually made in Malaysia by Thomson-CSF (a French company) that had licensed the GE name.  They sold for around $10 ($30-40 in today's money).  She took that with her when she went to college, and it's still around today.

I had a Bose Wave Radio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L… for years that actually made its way over to Germany with me and ran on a voltage converter for a few years.  This thread inspired me to see if it still worked, and it does, but it's back up in the attic.

Years ago, after I raved about the sound of the Roberts Revival iStream robertsradiotechnical.c… table radios at the London hipster hotels I frequent, my wife bought me one for home, which I've used on a daily basis since.

I hooked a short-range FM transmitter to the audio line out so I can listen to it in the bathroom in the morning on a Sony shower radio I've had for decades, independent of the speaker volume. The Roberts is FM, DAB+, and internet radio-capable (it came with a built-in mode for "last.fm" subscription radio, which was clearly the wrong bet at the time on Roberts' part en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki… … anyone remember "scrobbles”? youtu.be/ZR8az1UMOiQ).

However, it was also before they offered built-in Bluetooth functionality, and after Apple removed their audio out plugs, I found myself having to schlepp an iPhone or iPad into the bathroom and perch it perilously on the side of the sink to listen to podcasts or my music collection.  I thought of upgrading to a new radio, but that seemed like a complete waste, so I found a USB-powered Bluetooth stick for the princely sum of €10 on amazon.de, which I can patch into the aux plug (or switch to transmit mode should I ever want to use another Bluetooth speaker by simply pressing a button and switching to the headphone jack or line out).  Suddenly, I'm all set with the functional equivalent of the newest models.