Blast from the Past - Mini Celebration Contest!

[t3chg33k]

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.



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

 

[PoBoy]

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.

 

[nitin_g3]

My first build, circa 2001. Bills in pic.

I wonder if these shops are still in business.

 

[PoBoy]

I wonder if these shops are still in business.

Don't think so. But Zeta posted here a few years back - I told him/them about my purchase in 2001.

 

[Renegade]

Pour in more entries and likes as votes to choose the winners.

1st Place – ₹1,000 Amazon voucher + ₹500 TE store credit
2nd Place – ₹500 TE store credit

 

[t3chg33k]

Pour in more entries and likes as votes to choose the winners.

1st Place – ₹1,000 Amazon voucher + ₹500 TE store credit
2nd Place – ₹500 TE store credit

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.

 

[rsaeon]

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).

 

[Rezep]

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.

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.

 

[Renegade]

Good Idea, maybe when the contest ends we can cleanup the thread and allow voting for a week.

 

[t3chg33k]

Good Idea, maybe when the contest ends we can cleanup the thread and allow voting for a week.

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.

 

[sauravghosh]

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.



Motherboard of my second system the core 2 duo e6600 if I recall correctly. Bought around 2005-06.



Explanation not required.



CD RW from my first system. 6500 for that in 2003. Lmao. I pretty much guarantee it still works.



Soundcard, don't exactly remember when I bought this. Perhaps around 2008 or something.



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.




Respectfully, I do not bother at all with the likes and award stuff. Just posted this as I am extrememly nostalgic and sentimental.

 

[thetechguy]

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.

Nice to see these oldies !!!

 

[thetechguy]

Let me begin the festivities!
Was free this new year, taking care of my elderly people in my family while the rest enjoys the break. Here we go.
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PC Transformation:
About This:
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Made and assembled by Wipro. This machine had 15in CRT Monitor, Pentium Processor II MMX, 2GB HDD and Unknown RAM. We later upgraded to 10GB HDD. Remember it came with a game CD POD and DK Interative Human Anatomy
I remember my father bringing home this setup in 1997-98. This one had all the markings for proper gaming setup. we used to play that game POD all the time and our annual test scores tanked by 3 ranks which made my mother break that CD to pieces. Anyway remember using it to learn Word, Excel and Lotus software. This one was the one which started it all for me.
I bought my father this i3 8th Gen NUC before Covid. SOrt of coming a full circle.

Mobile Transformation:
Many of you remember the CDMA phone from Reliance for INR 500.
Well my father was one of the early adopters of this Mobile. He had got stuck for INR 20k. I still remember his anger over the company. Years later on I got my first mobile Nokia Brick and Airtel and later moved on. I got him S23 2 years back.

TV Internet Transformation:
I am pretty sure no one would have heard of this device from Samsung. It was used to connect our old CRT, Flatron TV and transform it as a computer. Nevertheless it was a flop. My father had bought it in '99. The biggest drawback was it was meant to connect TV, operate it from far off No Wifi, Just old 56kb Landline Modem, No Mouse, Lovely KB but that is all. It came bundled with IE and we were supposed to browse using the above. No way. We promptly bundled it back and tucked it in the loft.
Years pass I got my family Zidoo X10 and we watch it connected to TV.

Updated the post as per rules.

@?dOuBtFiRe? - Awesome pic bro, the jamakalam is icing on the cake !!!