According to this (http://web.archive.org/web/20020108220913/http://www.glowingplate.com/antiquetv/antiquity.html) they are but I consider them quite a valuable piece to have!!

I always heard 25 years a classic and 50 years antique.

I thought traditionally any antique had to be 100 years old. But more likely the definition may evolve with region and generation. Electronics probably evolves at a faster pace than say transportation. :D

According to some Fleabay sellers a pushbutton set from the 90's is antique.

ANTIQUE

RARE

WOW

L@@K @T

That article was written in 2002. What is considered vintage now was not even being accepted as thrift store donations at that time because there was so many, such as 1970's floor model TV's. I remember the local thrift shops selling them off for $3 to $5 each. Same price for color portables. Black and white solid state sets were even less. Now you look online and they are selling for $100.

the definition may evolve
My grandmother may have told me the "100 years old" definition when I was a child. But I have no problem with adapting that to different timelines. I have an "antique" calculator that is from the early 1970s, I think. And, one of my first-model RCA HDTV tuners may have been made in the 20th century, so it is an "antique", too. :D

I guess they call it artificial intelligence...