That is the most durable clock radio ever made. Still have mine at 54yrs old.

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Initial_Weather_9947@reddit

Got one just like it. GE knew how to make electronics back in time. Now, it’s all Made in China. Not worth a crap…

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gnortsmracr@reddit

My dad had one. I wish I still had it.

Look at you with your fancy GE clock radio. I hereby thrown the gauntlet with my humble JC Penney version.

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libmrduckz@reddit

oh, aren’t we posh with our tuner and brightness settings… two whole bands even… betcha get ‘tone’ and ‘volume’ knobs, too, ya’ lanky snob crust…

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chickens_for_fun@reddit

Mine is decades old, probably about 30 years or so. It still works but we never use the alarm.

We are retired, but on the occasional day when we need to get up early, we set our phones' alarms.

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Tempera1202@reddit

slow clap WITH hardly-perceptible shake of head

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BOHICAbeast@reddit

R.I.P. GE Digital Clock Radio (1983-2009) We miss caressing your work spongy Snooze button.

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mellbell63@reddit

How do you know the dates you've had your alarm clock???!!! I find that equally amusing and alarming!! 😆

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BOHICAbeast@reddit

It was given to me in 7th grade by my mom so I can wake up my sleepy ass all by myself. She could not do it at the time due to her having chemotherapy early in the morning.

2009 power surge fried the poor thing. I think it would still be working today if not for that. It had a good run.

(Heh... alarming. 😆)

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Had that exact model for several years then decided that life was too short to wake up to that crappy quarter sized speaker and bought myself an amazing Boston Acoustics clock radio that sounds awesome, Bose eat your heart out

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-sooox-@reddit

Assuming you live in Duluth, MN where I'm certain these are selling like hotcakes

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mjgman420@reddit

I miss that snooze button

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Fullerene000@reddit

Inheritance

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bundervar@reddit

Ah! That was my second clock and I like it because it was less loud than my 1 first one. This one went buzz buzz buzz. The previous one I had went bbbbbuiuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzzzzzz.

Just one long sound louder than the buzz buzz. The only good thing about the long buzz one was that there was a tiny click half a second before the sound. And I was able to jump fast enough to jump at the foot of my bed to click snooze and turn off the alarm before the buzz.

My heart was still pumping, but my hears were safe.

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MaximumGrip@reddit

can still feel the shrill sound coming from that machine.

RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR RAAR

Motherf**

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HoseNeighbor@reddit

I can. Just seeing these elicits a stress response.

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Silverlynel1234@reddit

Mine died a few years back. Maybe before covid. I have has two since then.

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471b32@reddit

Yeah, I have to think that using the alarm on this thing for over 50 years has caused some kind irreparable harm to OP.

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Whitey1969SC@reddit

He wakes at 3:30 from the PTSD of the sound

I'm 41, and have had this same alarm clock since I was ten.

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ConstantlyLearning57@reddit

Alexa customer sheepishly enters the chat. I dunno 🤷

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ConnectionSharp575@reddit

Every now and then, my phone alarm doesn't wake me up, so I still use that exact same alarm clock as a backup

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spidersinthesoup@reddit

had this one for almost 30 years...would probably still be with working had i not lost it in a move.

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Top_Possibility1260@reddit

Had this one as well

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LumpySconePrincess@reddit

I still have mine too!

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BigEntertainment4191@reddit

Thank you now I wonder where my grandfather's is

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Secure-Simple3051@reddit

Still have mine too. Works perfectly. I had two of them. Fellow GenX immediately grabbed the other one when I offered it up a couple of weeks ago.

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Maynard078@reddit

I this point it should go in the grave with you

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Psychic_Sphincter@reddit

My kid has it now.

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Susiejax@reddit

They don’t call it the Dream Machine for nothing

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PlusEnvironment7506@reddit

My mom still has this alarm clock!

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YouCannotBeSerius@reddit

haha i thought i was the only one. i still have my alarm clock from the 90s. it's a Philips, i can reset the time and set alarms without looking at any of the buttons, i do it in the dark, so it's just muscle memory.

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Wire_Hall_Medic@reddit

That clock radio woke me up, not to music, but to some kind of news broadcast. I was groggy, and irritated because I set it so that it should be playing music, not a commercial or news, I didn't understand why they were talking about Lord of the Rings. It went on, I realized that something was going on; the "second tower" was not talking about the Two Towers.

I went into the living room, and turned on the TV. I switched it to CNN. It was chaotic, It was obvious that information wasn't clear yet. It kept switching between pictures of the Twin Towers in New York. Then it flashed a picture of the Pentagon. That's when it sank in, and there was a hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach.

My mom came downstairs, irritated that I had the TV on; we lived on the west coast, and it was early. I looked at her, and said, "we've been attacked."

We watched for a bit. Then I got ready for school.

I threw mine against the wall one morning I had the opportunity to sleep in.

that picture smells like…

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sarcasticundertones@reddit

that picture smells like…

My alarm clock from 2004 took a crap on me. I can feel the space between the bar and edge to remind me it's set before I drift off to sleep and I don't want to learn a new alarm, plus I loathe cell phones most of the time and definitely don't want to use one for my main alarm.

So I got on eBay and found the exact same alarm that's barely ever been taken out of its box for $15. I should be good to go for another 20 years, and by that point, I'd better be long retired and not in much need of one anyway!

It's a Sony something or other.

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LiWin_@reddit

When things were well built and designed to last well past the manufacturing phase.

Yup. Still have one in the spare bedroom.

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Shalk-G@reddit

My GE clock radio lasted from 1990 to about 2010. The only reason it stopped working is because I made the mistake of cleaning it. It was never the same after that. My wife had one at one point but I'm not sure what happened to hers. We replaced our GE clock radios with another indestructible clock radio the Sony Dream Machine. We found them separately at thrift shops for $3 or less. She found a white one and I found a grey one.

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cdncntrygrl@reddit

I’ve got one somewhere lol

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Interesting_Sock9142@reddit

omg. my parents have that exact fucking alarm clock to this day.

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cocococlash@reddit

Yours is fancy compared to mine.

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EyeSawYa@reddit

Thats so awesome. Good job.

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redtesta@reddit

I have same exact one. Two of them.

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Off2Geo@reddit

I’m surprised the led numbers still look good. My dad had one of those that had the little flaps of numbers that would flip. Wish I still had that.

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BaDcHaD23@reddit

I tried removing it last week. Had to put it back. Just can’t live without it.

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puppy-nub-56@reddit

It's in the guest room

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govnah06@reddit

Mine is going strong with decades of faithful service!

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YouControlYou4822@reddit

We have one, too!

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catsdelicacy@reddit

They're so bright! That thing would light my whole room in terrifying blood light all night long!

At the end of my senior year in college I was feeling particularly annoyed with the alarm clock and being beholden to schedules generally so I threw it out the window. It landed on a manhole cover in the middle of the grass and broke into a dozen pieces. Still worked though. I might still have it, and possibly a picture of it broken on the lawn on some old hard drive.

For the most part I've been able to live my life free of such rigid scheduling.

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kathmandogdu@reddit

Back when GE made good shit.

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FlyBuy3@reddit

If it ain't broke, don't fix it

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gdtredmtn@reddit

Waking up to “I got you babe” on the clock radio, every day for a thousand years. Groundhog Day. “On your feet maggot”, same effect, different movie.

Had several of them over the years. At the time,it seemed like it was the only type of clock radio available, they were all the same shape, with the fake brown wood grain shell. It was either that or the windup folding alarm clock that would ring until you managed to find the microscopic switch to shut it off. Smashing it would usually end up with it skittering under the bed where it would inevitably run out of spring before you could reach it. Ding ding ding … ding … … diinngg …. di…….

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justsumguy@reddit

My parents have and still use this very clock.

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MissyMoo1984@reddit

My husbands is upstairs and still working.

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TheTagLady@reddit

My parents bought me this when I started kindergarten. I’m 39 now.

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TheTagLady@reddit

My parents bought me this when I started kindergarten. I’m 39 now.

You could be like the old boy who goes to his physical and the doc asks him about his bodily functions.

"Well, Doc, every day at about 5 am I have a big healthy shit"

"That's great" says the doctor

psyclembs@reddit

Trauma

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Scarpity026@reddit

The Magnavox alarm clock radio still by my bedside I got for Christmas in 1987 when I was in high school. I no longer use the alarm though. My phone has since overtaken that duty.

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vagabondoer@reddit

I still have the exact same one! I got it for opening a bank account. Works perfectly!

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sdtopensied@reddit

Still use mine…wakes me up every morning

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Affectionate-Map2583@reddit

Middle school here, too.

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twowheels@reddit

Like this?

I had OP's exact model through high school and college and then it went missing during a move. I replaced it with this model in the '90s (and it lasted 15 years):

Also, shout out to this bad boy, plus my Sears cassette player/ recorder. Before I had a 2-in-1, I played the radio and recorded the songs right next to the radio.

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WeekendAtRustys@reddit

I can’t find words to describe the PTSD caused by the alarm! lol! If the radio wasn’t tuned right, or if you hat it turned to siren, it was awful!

1971 was a great vintage!

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FalseQuestion7864@reddit

Damn! Instant time travel... I had a few iterations of these, including this one... it was my parents before I got it.

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earlthesachem@reddit

My wife has had her clock for more than 25 years; we’ve been married 28 years.

It automatically adjusts for daylight saving time, which is a handy feature.

Unfortunately, it was built when DST started and ended the first Sunday in April and the last Sunday in October.

So twice a year we wake up to the wrong time because the clock has changed, but not the time.

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Rascal_in_disguise@reddit

Dude, my sisters cross country coach gave a few girls clocks like this, so they “can get up on time to train at 5am in the dark” with him, the only “adult”.

25 years later.

Dude was arrested and convicted to prison for putting cameras in these and watching the girls in their bedrooms.

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my_dosing@reddit

I'm 68 and I still have mine. I keep telling myself I'm going to unplug it, but there it sits.

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Independent-Ask5165@reddit

I miss fixing mine

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TheCoopX@reddit

I have that exact model.

OK straight up where can I actually find one of these? I've been looking for ages and no ringtone or even cheapo alarm clocks pumped out over the last 20 years can compare to

It’s a classic.

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kennylogginswisdom@reddit

Yep. I still have one. I also have my dad’s old lamp.