Your alarm clock! How old is it?
I have had this old Spartus since my junior year in High School. It's 1984 vintage!

I am hearing impaired to some degree and this thing goes off like there's a nuclear meltdown happening next to your pillow!
I've lived in 19-20 different places (not counting military duty) since this was bought and I can't bring myself to get rid of it. My wife hates it but knows that when a man has loyally kept something for almost 30 years it's best not to mess with it.
Seems I've upgraded everything else in my electronic life but the Spartus remains!!!

Mine is 1990 vintage or so. It looks similar and is also annoyingly loud.

I didn't know that they even made electronics 30 years ago.

Are ya late for work often?

Man my 2000 model is new fancy stuff compared to that!

mine is new to me about 10 years ago, I found it, a new toaster, a oscillating fan, and two floor lamps in a dumpster behind my apartment in collage, and i still use it all.

I've gone through several alarms in the past 50 years (before then, my mom woke me up). My current alarm is about 15 years old and is simple to operate. No mistakes, unless I forget to set it.

I had the most annoying alarm clock and I used it to get my roommate in collage several times. The alarm was, "bleep bleep bleep, the time is six fifteen am", "bleep bleep bleep, the time is six fifteen am", "bleep bleep bleep, the time is six fifteen am" until you turned it off.
I left him with his girlfriend in the dorm room several times, I gave him 30 mikes to get her pants off and "bleep bleep bleep, the time is six fifteen am", "bleep bleep bleep, the time is six fifteen am", "bleep bleep bleep, the time is six fifteen am"

Before the latest one (Green LED) my last one was like this one.



I think it lasted 30 years before it quit flipping away the minutes.

As long as this thread is starting to wander,

We gave youngest daughter a "Funky Chicken" alarm clock when she was still at home. She absolutely HATED that thing, but SWMBO and I laughed our butts off every time it went off. Been too long now and I can't remember it's whole spiel.

Myron

My wife got one of those new ones that resets itself automatically after power outages and displays the time on the ceiling so you don't have to roll around to see what time it is. Wakes you to the sound of birds chirping or other nice sounds.
SAAAAAAAAWWWWEEEEET!

Mine still has a cassette player on it. Late 80's model..

I just use my phone

It was probably made in my hometown of Louisville, MS before they went to Mexico. Had roommate in gunsmith school that had at the least 3 alarm clocks necessary to wake him up. He put one of the old style with the bells on top on a metal pieplate placed upside down on his dresser. It DID make a racket.

pup

Hadn't had one in years since I've been using my cell phones as alarm clocks for a very long time. I did buy one about a year ago, however, but even at the loudest setting, the buzzer wasn't always loud enough to wake me. Currently, I'm using my iPhone alarm clock feature to wake up. Seems to be loud enough to wake me every time. I have it set to sound like an old-fashioned phone ringing.

I had the exact same one! That's hilarious.

Loud as fugg. By far the loudest alarm clock I have ever owned. Lol!

Don't have one any more.

The alarms on all the electric ones were just electronic cricket chirps that fell within the range of tones that I couldn't hear no matter how loud they were.

And with the power going off so frequently, they were never right on the time of day. Not even close.


Have bought several very-hard-to-find mechanical clocks with bells on 'em, but ne'er a one of 'em could be set to keep anywhere near accurate time. And the bells on the last one didn't ring � they just clattered quietly with a series of mild clunk-clunk-clunks that wouldn't even wake-up a mouse sleeping on top of it. I could barely hear the dang thing when I was sitting right next to it, wide awake, with the TV off.

A family member has one like that. Not sure if it still works but I'm gonna grab it none of theses days and give it to my 3 year old daughter when she gets bigger.

I bought mine in January 1972 at the PX, Memphis NAS, where I went to "A" school. Its one of those that flips the numbers when the time changes. My girl calls me an eccentric geezer, but if it works why mess with it.
George

About 45 years old.

Did go something like this: "Hey.... Wow.... come on baby....wake up and dance with me!". My neice had one of those darn things. I laughed so hard I still hurt.

I don't know how old our oldest one is. The oldest we did have got a load of 7 1/2s from my 12ga the day I retired.

Mine is wrinkled, and its over 50, and works.

Bought it in March when I moved down here, same with nearly everything electric I have, 240v/50Hz...

I do not own an alarm clock and haven't for about 15 years.

I have one that's pretty old - - -
But so am I, and I can't even hear it going off anymore.

Guess I'm dating myself....but I have a wind-up Big Bend that just clangs loud enough to wake the dead. Usually use it only when camping as my "real" alarm clock I'm married to (gets up at 5 AM no matter what).

Never could stand those electric clocks or phone alarms that try to be "sensitive". I need a clock that almost knocks you out of bed with it's alarm.

+1

Here's one that I still have.



My 1980's vintage flip/fold camping alarm clock is as big as cell phone.

This inability to hear alarm clocks is serious enough but I can't hear smoke detectors.

I use my cell phone, under the pillow, as my alarm. The only problem I have with that is the fact that I also have one of those vibrating smoke detectors under the pillow too. The smoke detector is wirelessly connected to the actual detector which is in the hall. So when using my cell alarm the first thing I have to do when it wakes me is to determine whether there is a fire or can I calmly get up from the bed, maybe even hit the snooze.

Dumped mine and every other clock in the house tht was`t tied to something else - microwave, stove, etc when I retired 7 yrs ago.
I know when it`s time to eat and time to hit the sack. I lived by the clock for 40 years, everything can wait until I feel like getting to it now.

Got hit the first time in '88, remember sending Mom to town to buy me a new clock radio while I was laid up recovering.

Still got it to this day, sad many new products aren't built to last, with some even specifically manufactured to fail after the warranty expires.

Gunner

haven't used an alarm to wake me up in almost 20 years now. Body does just fine for that.

Mine is going on 17 months...




Gets me up every morning!

Threw mine away when I retired.

Doesn't matter what time I go to bed, what time zone I wake up between 05:30 and 06:00.
Don't need an alarm clock.

jim

What are those things, anyway? I barely remember-

Neither me nor my wife have to get up to the sound of an alarm anymore, unless it is to catch a plane to somewhere fun, or to go hunting.
Then, we just use our iphones.

My dog rarely gets up before me and most of the time he'll take a nap on the couch while I'm having coffee.

He sleeps good so he can wind up his ultra hyperactive motor that runs form mid morning to late evening.

Mine was 54 years old in march.