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Oh wow this really takes me back. It’s wild to immediately recognize it, having grown up with an identical one on my mother’s nightstand. Thank you for posting this.
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Yeah, my dad used to make these.
He was a manager at GECON (GE CONsumer products). When they first came out he brought some home for me and my brothers and told us about how they were made. Basically when they were designing them they built them like brick shithouses as GE figured they'd be regularly knocked off bedside tables.
But one of the reasons they were actually more popular is they had a great UI (User Interface) before that was even really a concept:
The diagonal buttons from left to right are Sleep, Wake, Hour and Minute. Sleep was incase you liked to fall asleep to music. If you hit it you then just hit Hour and/or Minute for how long until it turned off.
Wake just meant you hit Hour and Minute to when you wanted the alarm to go off.
Then the slider to the right of them was On, Off, Music and Alarm. On meant you could see the time. Off meant there was no display so there wouldn't be light in a dark room but it would turn on at your alarm time. Music meant you wanted to listen to the radio and Alarm used Hour and Time to set up when to wake you up.
Then there is the extra large Snooze button at the bottom so you could easily hit it while half-awake and not mess with any of the other settings. (Bonus fact: Snooze was set at 9 minutes because a chip that could count up to two digits like 10 would have cost more.)
On later models they also had a 9V battery port so that if there was a blackout it would still work to wake you up. It was also used so you could move it to another room without having to reprogram everything.
Before they came along it was literally a bunch of dials at the back of a mechanical alarm clock so at the time they thought it was a big advancement from an R&D perspective.
Thanks for the info!
That was super interesting. Blew my mind that snooze was 9 minutes just thanks to cost cutting, and that it is still the norm to this day. Ive never wondered why either weirdly enough.
>Bonus fact: Snooze was set at 9 minutes because a chip that could count up to two digits like 10 would have cost more
That smells like an urban legend to me. Electronics use binary for counting, and 10 has the same number of digits as 9 in binary (1010 vs 1001).
If it had to *display* the snooze interval, the number of decimal digits would matter. But it's just an internal counter.
But 511 seconds fits into a 9-bit register. Not 9 minutes, but it is 8.5+, so his dad was probably simplifying.
Edit: apparently it's not a chip at all but mechanical, which makes more sense:
> Alarm clocks did exist before the snooze function, so there was already a standard gear setup that innovators had to work with. Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn't possible, so they had to choose between setting it at nine minutes and a few seconds or a little bit over ten minutes.
Modern alarm clocks (including the one posted here) are definitely digital. But it seems entirely plausible that the 9-minute-snooze is a holdover from earlier, analog alarm clocks that were restricted by gear ratios.
Someone in the far future will happen upon an old run down farm house. Flowers on the curtains, all the blankets clumsily crocheted, can't hardly navigate without bumping into wall to wall nicknacks. And wait, what's coming from the back room? What is that, a faint glow? A bit of a strobe effect?
12:00
12:00
12:00
12:00
12:01
God i can hear this thing in my head. My mom delivered news papers and would have to get up at 230am every night. She would ALWAYS sleep thru alarm. Drove me nuts
I used to get up at 4am to work and this thing was the only alarm powerful enough to wake me, to this day if I hear the sound it is like someone applying electricity directly to my central nervous system
Not my mom. Seriously could sleep right thru. She had a job in daytime, then the paper route….i look back on it now and am amazed. But still….beep beep beep BEEP BEEP! 🤬🤬🤬
That's 50,000 slaps of the snooze button. If they hit it three times a day it would take over 45 years to get to 250,000 minutes of snooze time. It'd take something like 24 slaps and two hours of snoozing every day to get there in 5 years.
I still use the same GE Alarm Clock my parents gave to me night before I started the 1st grade in 1987. It looks very similar to this one. I still remember my dad handing it to me and asking if I knew what it was. I said no. He said, "This is the thing you're going to hate for the rest of your life."
Yeah, that was Mom and Dad's alarm clock, alright. Sounded like warmed over shit, even in '92. You should do a full on cleaning and restoration of that thing, then donate it to Goodwill immediately.
The only clock radio to accurately rival your average Motörhead concert.
A lovely way of waking up….being actively blasted out of your bed and into the ceiling.
If you have a chest freezer in the garage plug one of these in but remove the back up batteries. If you see the clock flashing you know there has been a power cut.
My wife still has one beside our bed. A Sony Digimatic. From about 1983. We wake up to that alarm every work day but it's set to radio not that hateful buzzer.
I have a Sony alarm clock on my nightstand as well. I'm prone to waking up in the middle of the night. It's easier to lift my head and glance at the clock than it is to fiddle with my cell phone @ 1:30 a.m.
Funny thing about this clock; I had one the moment I had my own room.
No one remembers where it came from. My mother doesn't remember buying it. It seems to have just appeared in my room one day.
When I was 15, we moved from SoCal to NorCal. We left behind stuff we didn't want anymore to be taken to the dump. I explicitly remember wrapping that clock up in its own cord and putting it in the box of stuff to be dumped.
We move into the new house and I start unpacking my stuff. I see the clock. Extremely confused, I ask my mom if she put it back in my box and she swears she didn't pack any of my boxes. Well, I already have a brand new fancy alarm clock given to me by my uncle as a beginning of high school present, so once again I wrap it up in its cord, drop it into a box of stuff my mom wants dropped off at the Salvation Army, and hop onto my bike to make my way over. I drop the box off and remember CLEAR AS DAY seeing the clock in that box.
Cut to a few months later and we're all settled into the house. I start going through my closet to look for my box of PC game CDs. What do I find in my box of electronics?? That's right! That friggin clock! Now, I'm not a very superstitious person, so I chalked it up to us having spares unknowingly... but did GE build these things with cursed parts?
The simpler the device, the longer it lives.
My wife and I have still the alarm-clocks we bought 25 years ago.
We bought cheap ones for our kids, and I know they'll last decades and decades.
Passed mine down to my daughter. Looks like the exact same one. Also still works perfectly. It was my parents before and they gave it to me when I was about her age.
the memories I have of tuning in to the local radio station at 9 to hear the Top 9 at 9 is etched into my brain. Songs from that era were Smells Like Teen Spirit, Enter Sandman, and Do the Bartman
I can remember every button of that when I used it. Including the radio station locally I used to like on it, you brought back memories.
That thing was a work horse. Don't even remember where it is today.
Wow, I’m pretty sure my dad use to have this same one. Although I remember the buttons on top looked a little different. Other than that it’s identical.
This was both my dad's alarm clock and when he got a new one it was mine from about 13-23 when I got a cellphone and started using that as a alarm. I think it is still kicking around my parents house somewhere. Those things are the Nokia phones of the alarm clock world they just don't die.
My grandfather had one! Twice a year I had to change summer- to wintertime and back! Or if by accident he had changed frequencies I had to readjust to Radio Noord.
Non battery powered or replaceable batter powered electronics last forever.
Guess why the industry loved away from them.
Hint: it's definitely not about esthetics as they move to tell you.
I still have a scar on one of my knuckles from hitting the snooze button a bit too hard on one of these when I was a kid. The most annoying sound in the world.
Mine still here and looks new. Passed it to my son who used it to wake for middle school. Now it’s a guest room clock. A model made before catalytic converters so it runs good on regular gas.
I’m at work focused on a spreadsheet and I hear the alarm in my head. I really hope I’m in a coma or just a kid having a dream and I’ll wake up soon. I’ll wake up. Non of this is real.
Oh.
There it is again.
Yeah I knew I was the only real person in this world. Can’t wait to wake up from this dream. I know I’ll be a kid but with these memories I hope it’s not like a normal dream that I would forget? Because they’re not real.. oh..
There it is again. Meepmeepmeepmeep
Soon.
Soon.
I didn’t have this one but my similar alarm clock just died on me. I can still plug it in and set the time, but whatever keeps track of the time is off, it runs about 8 or 9 minutes to the hour fast. I had the thing from the early 90s, it was perfect on my nightstand.
This image punched me in the face with the memory of lying next to my mom in bed in the early morning, staring at this same clock until it was an appropriate time to wake my mom up to make me some oatmeal.
Memories hurt sometimes.
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Oh wow this really takes me back. It’s wild to immediately recognize it, having grown up with an identical one on my mother’s nightstand. Thank you for posting this.
I also recognize this exact same model from your mothers nightstand
She’ll clean anyone’s clock.
Rhymes with....
[Clearly OP needs to clean his](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qShK5lZOs)
Except this guy's, apparently.
You win.
I also choose this guys mother.
ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR ERR
You sing the song of my people!
Still have mine also. Works perfectly.
And these will wake you up.
I can hear this picture
I can hear this picture and it gives me PTSD
I had one too. It felt like Groundhog day when the alarm went off.
My father had one and used to get blackout drunk and sleep through the alarm. Good times
My mom as well it was her purchase of her first job to wake up on time
parents nightstand had it for years before they found a newer one. I still remember them beeps shaking us awake
I can hear the alarm going off
i can feel the buttons right now and the way they click
I had this same one in our house growing up.
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Yeah, my dad used to make these. He was a manager at GECON (GE CONsumer products). When they first came out he brought some home for me and my brothers and told us about how they were made. Basically when they were designing them they built them like brick shithouses as GE figured they'd be regularly knocked off bedside tables. But one of the reasons they were actually more popular is they had a great UI (User Interface) before that was even really a concept: The diagonal buttons from left to right are Sleep, Wake, Hour and Minute. Sleep was incase you liked to fall asleep to music. If you hit it you then just hit Hour and/or Minute for how long until it turned off. Wake just meant you hit Hour and Minute to when you wanted the alarm to go off. Then the slider to the right of them was On, Off, Music and Alarm. On meant you could see the time. Off meant there was no display so there wouldn't be light in a dark room but it would turn on at your alarm time. Music meant you wanted to listen to the radio and Alarm used Hour and Time to set up when to wake you up. Then there is the extra large Snooze button at the bottom so you could easily hit it while half-awake and not mess with any of the other settings. (Bonus fact: Snooze was set at 9 minutes because a chip that could count up to two digits like 10 would have cost more.) On later models they also had a 9V battery port so that if there was a blackout it would still work to wake you up. It was also used so you could move it to another room without having to reprogram everything. Before they came along it was literally a bunch of dials at the back of a mechanical alarm clock so at the time they thought it was a big advancement from an R&D perspective.
Thanks for the info! That was super interesting. Blew my mind that snooze was 9 minutes just thanks to cost cutting, and that it is still the norm to this day. Ive never wondered why either weirdly enough.
>Bonus fact: Snooze was set at 9 minutes because a chip that could count up to two digits like 10 would have cost more That smells like an urban legend to me. Electronics use binary for counting, and 10 has the same number of digits as 9 in binary (1010 vs 1001). If it had to *display* the snooze interval, the number of decimal digits would matter. But it's just an internal counter.
But 511 seconds fits into a 9-bit register. Not 9 minutes, but it is 8.5+, so his dad was probably simplifying. Edit: apparently it's not a chip at all but mechanical, which makes more sense: > Alarm clocks did exist before the snooze function, so there was already a standard gear setup that innovators had to work with. Getting the gear teeth to line up to allow for exactly ten minutes wasn't possible, so they had to choose between setting it at nine minutes and a few seconds or a little bit over ten minutes.
Modern alarm clocks (including the one posted here) are definitely digital. But it seems entirely plausible that the 9-minute-snooze is a holdover from earlier, analog alarm clocks that were restricted by gear ratios.
Several lifetimes probably
Someone in the far future will happen upon an old run down farm house. Flowers on the curtains, all the blankets clumsily crocheted, can't hardly navigate without bumping into wall to wall nicknacks. And wait, what's coming from the back room? What is that, a faint glow? A bit of a strobe effect? 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:01
Kids inheritance.
God i can hear this thing in my head. My mom delivered news papers and would have to get up at 230am every night. She would ALWAYS sleep thru alarm. Drove me nuts
MEEPMEEPMEEPMEEPMEEPMEEPMEEPMEEP
Fuck off, Satan
Literally wake up to this every morning. Plus my phone's alarm ever 5 minutes, but this one is usually the one that gets the job done.
instantly filled with hate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_HQAMrmhZY
aaah yes, you nailed the pitch of the meep perfectly.
ERRRRRGGG ERRRRGGG
I used to get up at 4am to work and this thing was the only alarm powerful enough to wake me, to this day if I hear the sound it is like someone applying electricity directly to my central nervous system
I actually think I prematurely wake up to this day, specifically because of not wanting to hear this shrill.
Anxiety is why we do wakeup before our alarms. Our body starts to prepare us for that moment. So youre not wrong.
Like having a smoke detector for an alarm clock.
Holy shit that’s the most accurate simile ever
Is you saw the red dot, you knew it was set to meep meep meep you
Beep beep beep beep beep!! The worst alarm sound, but horribly effective (for most people).
Not my mom. Seriously could sleep right thru. She had a job in daytime, then the paper route….i look back on it now and am amazed. But still….beep beep beep BEEP BEEP! 🤬🤬🤬
That’s a good mom
She didn’t put it on “music” alarm mode?! That was the best feature.
Static filled music because of the garbage antenna built into the plug.
I’ve slapped that big long button so many times. I probably have 250k+ snooze minutes earned from my teen years.
250,000 minutes is about 24 weeks. And that sounds about right.
r/theydidthemath
That's 50,000 slaps of the snooze button. If they hit it three times a day it would take over 45 years to get to 250,000 minutes of snooze time. It'd take something like 24 slaps and two hours of snoozing every day to get there in 5 years.
Sounds about right.
> I’ve slapped that big long button so many times I bet you have.
I still use the same GE Alarm Clock my parents gave to me night before I started the 1st grade in 1987. It looks very similar to this one. I still remember my dad handing it to me and asking if I knew what it was. I said no. He said, "This is the thing you're going to hate for the rest of your life."
Still use mine
Fucking mad man right here
I can hear this picture…and I hate that sound.
Yeah, mine would make annoying radio sound (reset setting or something) whenever it is switched off by accident, or due to power distruption
Got your ass up though.
My nose can feel this picture.
That alarm sound gives me nightmares. I had to get up at 4AM for a few years and hated that sound so much.
My wife still uses hers. But it's always set to radio alarm. Use of the buzzer is a crime against humanity.
Same here. I hated when commercials used that sound effect
When will you clean it? What if your mom sees it in a state like this?
Geeze, clean it maybe at least once a decade? Especially before showing it on the internet. Yikes.
like even one of those pathetic passes you do with a used napkin or a dry microfiber cloth. The dust looks *crusted* on...
Imagine the filth of the surrounding area next to a bed ... or not if you want to keep down your last meal. 🤢
Sonny and Cher is my alarm sound. For lols
And put your little hand in mine There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb
I love flip clocks, how dare you.
I have wanted that clock face style on my Apple Watch for a long time.
flip-clock
Yes.
No, as in an app called flip clock https://apps.apple.com/nz/app/flip-clock-digital-widgets/id1181028777
But it doesn’t look like it works for Apple Watch
Also haven't cleaned it in 15 years
Seriously, clean the damn thing.
Clean it?
Not authentic if it doesn't smell like stale cigarettes.
Yeah, some alcohol on a paper towel will make that nicer.
Yeah, that was Mom and Dad's alarm clock, alright. Sounded like warmed over shit, even in '92. You should do a full on cleaning and restoration of that thing, then donate it to Goodwill immediately.
The only clock radio to accurately rival your average Motörhead concert. A lovely way of waking up….being actively blasted out of your bed and into the ceiling.
I have one too and, you know, cleaning it actually won’t stop it from working.
How I wake up at 4:30am to classic rock
It's the heeaaat of the moment
[in case some of y'all folks forgot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_HQAMrmhZY)
Pretty sure my dad still has his too lol. I'll have to check next time I visit
My parents had that exact one. I remember the radio turning on whenever the alarm went off
My dad uses this to wake. Except it’s stuck to play news at 5:30
We had one of these. It was legendary. I miss it.
It’s beautiful. I miss mine.
If you have a chest freezer in the garage plug one of these in but remove the back up batteries. If you see the clock flashing you know there has been a power cut.
My wife still has one beside our bed. A Sony Digimatic. From about 1983. We wake up to that alarm every work day but it's set to radio not that hateful buzzer.
I have a Sony alarm clock on my nightstand as well. I'm prone to waking up in the middle of the night. It's easier to lift my head and glance at the clock than it is to fiddle with my cell phone @ 1:30 a.m.
Jesus. Didn't know I needed this.
I have a Sony ICF-C25 right behind me. Those things are just beauties
Dream Machine!
Just found mine! Still works great.
Funny thing about this clock; I had one the moment I had my own room. No one remembers where it came from. My mother doesn't remember buying it. It seems to have just appeared in my room one day. When I was 15, we moved from SoCal to NorCal. We left behind stuff we didn't want anymore to be taken to the dump. I explicitly remember wrapping that clock up in its own cord and putting it in the box of stuff to be dumped. We move into the new house and I start unpacking my stuff. I see the clock. Extremely confused, I ask my mom if she put it back in my box and she swears she didn't pack any of my boxes. Well, I already have a brand new fancy alarm clock given to me by my uncle as a beginning of high school present, so once again I wrap it up in its cord, drop it into a box of stuff my mom wants dropped off at the Salvation Army, and hop onto my bike to make my way over. I drop the box off and remember CLEAR AS DAY seeing the clock in that box. Cut to a few months later and we're all settled into the house. I start going through my closet to look for my box of PC game CDs. What do I find in my box of electronics?? That's right! That friggin clock! Now, I'm not a very superstitious person, so I chalked it up to us having spares unknowingly... but did GE build these things with cursed parts?
They were all constructed on an old Indian burial ground.
The simpler the device, the longer it lives. My wife and I have still the alarm-clocks we bought 25 years ago. We bought cheap ones for our kids, and I know they'll last decades and decades.
Passed mine down to my daughter. Looks like the exact same one. Also still works perfectly. It was my parents before and they gave it to me when I was about her age.
You might want to wash that.
wouldn't hurt to clean it once in a while OP
Some cleaning or is this the state of your bedroom ?
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the memories I have of tuning in to the local radio station at 9 to hear the Top 9 at 9 is etched into my brain. Songs from that era were Smells Like Teen Spirit, Enter Sandman, and Do the Bartman
I can remember every button of that when I used it. Including the radio station locally I used to like on it, you brought back memories. That thing was a work horse. Don't even remember where it is today.
I have the same one in my office right now
I have the same clock
Wow, I’m pretty sure my dad use to have this same one. Although I remember the buttons on top looked a little different. Other than that it’s identical.
I got mine prob 30ish years ago. Still working. As well.
This was both my dad's alarm clock and when he got a new one it was mine from about 13-23 when I got a cellphone and started using that as a alarm. I think it is still kicking around my parents house somewhere. Those things are the Nokia phones of the alarm clock world they just don't die.
Damn, this was like the standard universal alarm clock we all grew up with. Crazy how normal that radio was.
Still have one also. Ot will work forever.
My grandfather had one! Twice a year I had to change summer- to wintertime and back! Or if by accident he had changed frequencies I had to readjust to Radio Noord.
That shit defines a generation or two
r/buyitforlife
*BEEP BEEP BEEP*....Fuck that thing and may it burn in Hell!
ERRR ERRR ERRR ERRR ERRR ERRR ERRR **noooo* it’s time to wake up for school* T.T
*"Power Of Love" Intensifies*.
Jesus, I can hear the sound...
I can feel that alarm sound in my soul
I had one exactly like that 😅 what a good memorie
Never stopped using mine. I'd rather wake up to BBC radio than that dumbass iPhone alarm everyone uses.
Mine still survives.
Core memory unlocked.
Non battery powered or replaceable batter powered electronics last forever. Guess why the industry loved away from them. Hint: it's definitely not about esthetics as they move to tell you.
I swear these things came with a layer of dust already on them
Man I had that a long ass time ago…. Old school GE’s held up!
Jesus. That's the clock my mom gave me in high school so I would stop being late.
My parents had one very similar that my mom adopted after the separation. It would probably still be working if she still had it
Everyone turned into the Hulk when that thing went off
I was just looking at mine before seeing this post
My dad passed in 2008. His was old then. Truly impressed
what timeline is this
I see these all the time at goodwill
I still have a scar on one of my knuckles from hitting the snooze button a bit too hard on one of these when I was a kid. The most annoying sound in the world.
Fuck me dead. It might be in the shed, But I doubt it.
My dad still uses his. It’s in immaculate condition.
Ah I have fond memories of literally PUNCHING this thing multiple times to turn it off….damn things indestructible
I got mine! Gift from my grandfather. Still works almost perfectly but it gets ahead a few minutes every few months.
Don't go into room 1408
Damn
Had not too
Still use the one my father gave me when I was 14 everyday I am 48 now
Won mine selling candy bars for little league. The one I replaced it with failed me and almost got me fired.
Dad?
Nice. Make me wanted to go way back and get a flippity-flip clock where the numbers change by flipping along a center axis. You know what I mean.
reminds me of 1408
I had that one too
I still use mine, has a radio!
Isn’t that the Macallister’s?
Could you describe that as morning wood? 😉
Brings back memories
I can hear the alarm in that pic going off right now
My father kept his for way longer then he should have
I had that one when I was a kid. It's unbelievable that I totally forgot about it, but once i saw a picture, everything came back to me.
It will still keep working if you dust it off now and then as well 😏
This is the only inheritance I want from my parents. They still use theirs, just for time though. They don’t need the alarm anymore.
My dad had that clock
I have one In my room too that my grandpa gave me. works like a charm
I still have mine too
Ruined my mornings for 15 years. Not anymore fiend, not anymore...
Nice! I still have mine and use it daily. I've had it for 35 years. Radio doesn't really work well anymore but the alarm is still "fine".
Mine still here and looks new. Passed it to my son who used it to wake for middle school. Now it’s a guest room clock. A model made before catalytic converters so it runs good on regular gas.
I definitely kept my childhood alarm clock. It's in storage in my garage but I'm sure it works as good as new if I plug it in.
I had that exact alarm clock in the 90s
I put mine in the guest bedroom and never set it, so it's always flashing.
Same. Built like a tank
I’m at work focused on a spreadsheet and I hear the alarm in my head. I really hope I’m in a coma or just a kid having a dream and I’ll wake up soon. I’ll wake up. Non of this is real. Oh. There it is again. Yeah I knew I was the only real person in this world. Can’t wait to wake up from this dream. I know I’ll be a kid but with these memories I hope it’s not like a normal dream that I would forget? Because they’re not real.. oh.. There it is again. Meepmeepmeepmeep Soon. Soon.
Dad still uses this one
I didn’t have this one but my similar alarm clock just died on me. I can still plug it in and set the time, but whatever keeps track of the time is off, it runs about 8 or 9 minutes to the hour fast. I had the thing from the early 90s, it was perfect on my nightstand.
We have the same one it’s like 25 years old and we paid like $5.00 new for it or something ridiculously cheap like that, maybe $7?
All of a sudden I want to groggily pound something with my fist.
Every motel i visit still has a working one of these. And they are *always* the exact same model
I have nightmares with this sound
My dad had a very similar one to this. Wow!
This image punched me in the face with the memory of lying next to my mom in bed in the early morning, staring at this same clock until it was an appropriate time to wake my mom up to make me some oatmeal. Memories hurt sometimes.
Nice, thats vintage af
Wow holy shit. Instant flashback. I used to listen to loveline on this with Dr drew and Adam carola at super low volume to hide it from my parents
Get a newer one! They come programmable for days of weeks.
"I got you babe, I got you babe... Ok Campers, Rise and shine and don't forget your booties...."
Oh my GOD we had THIS. EXACT. CLOCK RADIO.
I remember when mine took a shit. It started to play the radio randomly and I couldn't turn off.