Blast from the Past - Mini Celebration Contest!

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.

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Posted this one over here previously, but always close to my heart as my first smartphone and of course it still works.

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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.

Sony Floppy disks.

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EDIT : Forgot to add my Windows ME install CD, yes I actually paid like Rs 3500 for that.
 
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