I was surrounded by all these kinds of devices and more. Still know how to use most of it I think, though years of hard knocks and bad decisions have messed with my memory a bit. Still, it was always the best thing with older equipment to feel dials turn and hear pitches and squelched audio change.
This was my first radio, given to me by my dad - it was also his first radio. A KW Atlanta, I even had the same VFO and Power Supply shown here. Those frequency dials were incredible - they were weighted so there was an inertia as you spun them, and the ridges on the dial made an interesting sensation as the dial spun in your hand. There's also, if you look close, two dials per frequency knob, one for faster scanning of frequencies, one for literally fine-tuning. There's something tangible and satisfying about having all these knobs and dials and learning how to use them that a lot of digital hardware doesn't equate.
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As someone who bought (and fixed...) a Tektronix 2225 primarily to display oscilloscope music, there are cool art possibilities! Plus, old analogy scopes (art only displays right on good old analog CRT oscilloscopes) are fun to play with. So many knobs and switches! See this Smarter Everyday ("You've seen oscilloscopes before, and you may have been intimidated. There's a lot of knobs and, like, clicky things, and it looks like something you could really mess up really easily. But they're actually pretty simple.") https://youtu.be/4gibcRfp4zA