A digital attic full of good stuff
Old technology deserves better than a landfill.
Obsolete Pete is a growing collection of vintage telephones, televisions, radios, toys, and oddball electronics from the days when buttons clicked, bells actually rang, and nothing needed an app.
The good junk
Browse the collection
These are starter categories for the first Pages test. We can turn each one into its own gallery page next.
Telephones
Rotary sets, Trimlines, oddball handsets, PBX gear, and phones built like furniture.
Open drawer →TVs & Radios
CRTs, portable televisions, tabletop radios, and glorious knobs by the dozen.
Open drawer →Toys & Robots
Tin toys, electronic toys, robots, and plastic wonders from better toy aisles.
Open drawer →Oddball Electronics
Things with cords, switches, meters, mystery ports, and absolutely no Bluetooth.
Open drawer →Featured relic
Pick one weird thing and tell its story.
This section is meant for one standout item at a time — a strange telephone, a promotional TV, an old robot, or anything with a story worth telling.
- Era
- 1970s-ish
- Status
- Still kicking
- Best feature
- Way too many knobs
Meet the curator
Who is Obsolete Pete?
Pete is the imaginary patron saint of obsolete gadgets — the guy who sees a yellowed rotary phone at a yard sale and thinks, “Well, somebody has to save it.”
This site is part collection, part museum, and part excuse to photograph old stuff that was engineered before “software update required” became a sentence.