Didn’t know that I still had some of this stuff till I opened a storage box today.
The tape recorder was my grandfather’s, perhaps one of the earliest bits of tech I used, which was to bootleg songs from the TV speaker.
The customary Walkman (men?) from the 90s. The tape one was gifted by my uncle to my elder brother, and I had received the FM radio one as the younger sibling.
The Grundig one came from the time my father visited Germany in the 90s, and somehow it still worked when I tried it out a couple of years back, though the Sony one is dead.
The game cartridges are from my first “console” which was made by Mega and played Nintendo titles while having Genesis-like controllers.
The Sony Ericsson MW600 is the latest retro tech over here from just over a decade ago when I finally decided to go wireless.
My first build, circa 2001. Bills in pic.
AMD Duron 800, Rs 4500. The equivalent Intel Pentium 3 was selling for like Rs 14000.
Soltek SL-75MAV mobo, Rs 6154.
IBM IDE HDD 30GB, Rs 8400 (yikes!).
A Microsoft* serial ball* mouse I won in a competition (Bombay Times I think, LOL), circa 2000.
As I had originally mentioned, it is the early posts and mostly those on the first page that have most votes, and it will stay that way. Not much point in expecting new entries getting as much attention.
Maybe put in a condition that for your entry to be considered, you need to upvote all the other entries (or that upvotes by participants are not considered).
Usually on some discord servers and some contests they host for various different entries on different topics (pc builds, fashion outfits etc) what they usually do is they completely disable voting. Only submissions are taken in by the admins until a certain deadline. Once the deadline is over, the admins themselves post it on the discord channel one by one mentioning each user’s id that has submitted it. After that, voting is opened.
I think if we want to keep it fair for all participants (hell even I myself haven’t checked any entries after the first page). Let everyone put in their submissions here. Once that is done, @@Renegade can create a new thread, locking this one or closing it and asking people to vote on the new one. Not by using the poll system but by maybe restricting the reactions to only being a thumbs up.
That is how any contest has worked for time immemorial, to be honest. You submit entries up to a date, then there is time provided for the entries to be judged and the winners revealed on a certain date.
Two weeks back I took these photos as I was disposing of dozens of amazon box. Only getting time to post this now. Used irfanview to merge the photos as all these items were in different places in the house.
Mice: Samsung one I used back in 2004 if I recall correctly. This was my first optical after using a ball mouse the previous year in 2003. The G9 was bought around 2007. And it has been used/abused and whatnot. Those were the peak gaming days for me.
So I sell all the Sonys and Nokias but I see that these bloody CDs are still here to haunt me. The 1600 and whatever Samsung phone that is are the only ones I have from past. This is the SADDEST part for me not the computer stuffs.
This is not PC or mobile but our landline telephones starting with the BPL in 1995 to 2014 when we finally disconnected the line ending with the panasonic one. The white beetel one was my most favourite due its excellent switches. Our first phone, a rotary one from 1991-92 is not here. It’s in a mezzanine floor probably surrounded by dead lizards.
Gosh forgot about that too. Another old item, bought decades ago. The dark floor didn’t bring out the items photos, hence as an instant measure. The house didn’t have any empty tables on that date.
Some teaser trailer - I need to dig up my old ZX Spectrum 128k+ , my Sony MiniDisc OG model MZ-1 , a Nintendo SNES gaming console , a Casio PB2000C handheld mini computer , some old Nintendo clamshell handheld gaming units - I’ve got so much old shite - will try to post here ASAP but as usual too lazy to include handwritten note - dont mind it being excluded for any competition but hopefully the posts wont be deleted from this thread hehe. Stay tuned!
I took some pics last week of some good old nostalgic stuff when I visited my home but forgot to put my Te id page tag while clicking the snaps, can I still post the pics?
