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Does anyone have any old tech or technology oddities they want to share with us? I've been looking back through my inventory of hardware, stuff I have in cupboards and boxes and thought i'd throw some of it on here. I know for a lot of you old technology will be a Pentium 4 or something not all that out of date, but i'm a die hard at this, I still have hardware from the 1970s. There's very little criteria to this thread. If it's nostalgic, interesting or brings back memories, post it up.

Of course, click any of the pictures to zoom it up.

(1) Apple PowerBook G3 FireWire (2000) - 400MHz/512MB RAM/30GB HDD - Primary (Elementary) School teacher had one of these, spent years trying to find one before this one turned up. Ordered a new processor for it today as the old one had gone bad and it no longer started up.

(2) Apple Macintosh 512K Enhanced (1985) - 8MHz/512KB RAM/800KB Floppy - Found in a farm shed, dirty, rusted internally. High School Electronics Project that I ended up restoring and keeping. Now looks and runs like it did back in 1985.

(3) Apple iMac G3 Special Edition (2001) - 600MHz/512MB/40GB HDD - Gifted to me by the IT administrator of my primary (elementary) school when I graduated. Replaced the CRT in it once, in almost brand new condition, just need to replace the plastic foot and it should be pristine.

(4) Apple iMac G4 (2002) - 700MHz/512MB/40GB HDD - Given to me by my manager as a token of appreciation, although it's very old by today's standards I wanted it purely for the looks and design (one is on display in the New York City Museum of Modern Art), these are becoming rarer and rarer as collectors pick them up.

(5) Apple II+ (1978) - 2MHz/64KB RAM/140K Floppy - One of the first Apple Computers, this one was found under a table in a dusty old box at a trash and treasure market. I since revived the machine and cleaned it up back to its factory glory. (Stock Image)

(6) Sega Mega Drive II 16-Bit (1989) - 7.6MHz/64KB RAM/Cartridge - Not a computer, but a games console. I've had this since I was only a couple of years old, many of the games were lost but i've since bought replacements. I still love playing games on this thing and don't see any reason as to why I should get rid of it, so it stays.

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oh my god, that's a pretty awesome collection, some of that stuff is soooo old, and looks sick!

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I got a : It has 58 mb of ram, and is on windows 1.

colbymsn posted: (4th Nov 2011, 06:58 pm)

I got a : It has 58 mb of ram, and is on windows 1.

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I have the original nintendo, it's at my moms house so i dont have it atm but i'll look for my picture of the sega dreamcast (if thats old enough)

EDIT: Found this!

Couldnt find the sega dreamcast, so i found my gameboy pocket!

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Sega Dreamcast ,    i still got mine and all its games. What games did you played on it ? :D

My Video Game Aresonal: 

Includes: SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System

X360 Elite w/ Kinect (Xbox 360 Elite w/ Kinect, the kinect is not in the photo, though)

Nintendo DSI 1 <--- not in photo, white in color

Nintendo DSI 2 <---- not in photo, black in color

Nintendo DS Lite (Red & Black in Photo)

Nintendo Game Cube

Playstation 2

Playstation 3 (not in photo)

Game Boy Advace (not in photo

Game Boy Color (not in photo)

And heres that bin u see in the right of the photo, that is cut off. its full of all of my NES games. my favs are ontop.

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Ahh, I wish I could take a photo of all my stuff (Though it isn't the best collection).

I might as well include newish technology too, since loldude did (Xbox 360 Elite)

Computer:

2x Window 98's

1x Windows 2000

2x Windows XP

1x Windows Vista

2x Windows 7

Console (Including portable):

PS1

PS2

PS3

PSP

Xbox

Xbox 360

Nintendo Game Cube

Nintendo DS

Nintendo Wii

First Gameboy

Gameboy Color

Gameboy Advance

Gameboy Advance SP

SNES

I think that's all of it.

hey i just remembered some stuff to add to mine:

Windows 7 Dell Inspirion 15" Laptop

Atari 2600

PS1

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back in my day, technology so advanced like the ones I see in the posts didn't exist. 

(I'm kidding)

My fave old hardware (I own them)

DEC Rainbow 100+

Sony HitBit MSX

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one of my favorite machines ever <3 <3

one of the first computers I ever used in any significant way was one of these with a 1 mb RAM upgrade and a 3 MB external HDD sitting under it

speaking of nostalgia, remember hypercard?

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Redrocco posted: (5th Nov 2011, 04:23 am)

one of my favorite machines ever <3 <3

one of the first computers I ever used in any significant way was one of these with a 1 mb RAM upgrade and a 3 MB external HDD sitting under it

speaking of nostalgia, remember hypercard?

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That is a large case for such small specs o.o how old is that thing XD?! On a side note, I still have my sega megadrive (first console I ever played), my dreamcast and my SNES. Gotta love the classics. <3

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