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[big_z]

built like a tank and had the click wheel. that was the last gen of high quality apple products now their stuff is built like garbage. click wheel is far better for songs than touch screens to boot. wish i never sold mine.

9800gtx, still using mine since most games run alright on it and it's dead quiet during 2D mode unlike any video card since. even returned my 460gtx due to noise and went back to the 9800gtx.

 

[mandiller]

28 years old. Still love them:

 

[Shaneus]

Not only did I manage to fluke finding my Karma, I also managed to arse finding the original wall charger, a US->AU power adapter (I bought the Karma while I was in Manhattan many, many moons ago) and the 3rd party software that let me use it in Windows Explorer (along with the ridiculously old login and password). Absolutely fucking stoked.

If any of you have any MP3 players that you haven't fired up for ages... find them and recharge them! The trip down memory lane is totally fucking worth it.

 

[Caesar III]

Voodoo 2

Hand mine in my hands a few days ago and was thinking about trying if it works with my pcie card under Win7x86. Assumed it wouldn't and put it back in the box again. :lol

 

[MadmanUK]

Life was better when there was no Playstation or cellphones. [/spoiler]*removes rose-tinted glasses[/spoiler]

I really loved my Super Famicom. I paid £350 to get it on release week with Final Fight and Pilotwings.

Great days.

Final Fight wasn't launch was it??

Anyway the Big Trak were re-launched recently. My mate's got one for his lad's xmas, i think it's for him though. I always wanted one.

http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/14398006/Big-Trak/Product.html

 

[Gilby]

This is my boy:

He is living a brilliant second youth.

If Nintendo released a remake of these that had a few gigs of memory and the ability to play downloadable GB/GBC/GBA games I think it would sell a few billion. I still love how meaty they feel.

 

[Anasui Kishibe]

the definitive.

 

[Shaneus]

Hand mine in my hands a few days ago and was thinking about trying if it works with my pcie card under Win7x86. Assumed it wouldn't and put it back in the box again. :lol

You know that requires an ISA slot, right? I haven't seen one of those slots on a motherboard for years!

FWIW, I had 2x 8mb Voodoo2 cards (Creative 3D Blaster, nonetheless!) with a Tseng Labs ET6000 card (w/ 4mb expansion). Holy shit some of the games looked amazing then! G-Police was a favourite :lol

 

[345triangle]

not exactly electronic because it doesn't even use a battery, but it fits anyway.

my current favourite camera is this:

a cute version of an old vivitar camera (ultra wide and slim) that is so much fun to use - the lens is 22mm (which is WIDE on 35mm film) and the colours are really beautiful. i've never been into the lomography thing, i just like this camera for what it is on non-postmodern grounds.

plus it makes a really great street photography camera because it's tiny, silent, fast and the least intimidating thing in the world.

 

[Fireblend]

It wasn't in german though.

and

:lol I wish I still had these, but the GBC sure looks awful.

 

[valkillmore]

The first MP3 player.

Wow I had one of those! 32MB. I remember the first thing I uploaded to it was the soundtrack to The New Tetris for N64! :lol :lol

 

[megashock5]

I also miss this even though it was crap..

Man, I still have mine. It's in the storage room of the basement, I should see if it still works.

 

[1GabUp]

GAF never disappoints!

 

[DonMigs85]

 

[sikkinixx]

I liked Apple's "white" phase. While the designs they have now look slick, the white emac or G5 iMac or old iPods make me smile.

 

[BGBW]

http://images.macworld.com/images/legacy/2005/06/images/content/emac_g4.jpg

I liked Apple's "white" phase. While the designs they have now look slick, the white emac or G5 iMac or old iPods make me smile.

I'm sad that my iPod is silver rather than white. Bought the standard MacBook simply because it was the white option. Not looking forward to having to replace my iMac G5 now.

I like my ol' Hi-Fi. One of the first expensive things I bought with my own money that I earned. It can play CDs, cassette tapes and Mini Discs, which was pretty hard to come across.

 

[gblues]

You know that requires an ISA slot, right? I haven't seen one of those slots on a motherboard for years!

FWIW, I had 2x 8mb Voodoo2 cards (Creative 3D Blaster, nonetheless!) with a Tseng Labs ET6000 card (w/ 4mb expansion). Holy shit some of the games looked amazing then! G-Police was a favourite :lol

No, that's a PCI card. It also looks like it has more silicon than Pamela Anderson.

I remember my first Voodoo 1. Tomb Raider 3d-accelerated was awe inspiring.

Spoiler

Epic T-Rex battle!!

 

[gokieks]

It wasn't in german though.

and

:lol I wish I still had these, but the GBC sure looks awful.

The iPod Mini is still my favorite form factor of any iPod Apple has ever made. The size is fantastic, and the brushed metal casing is probably the most scratch resistant of any iDevice. I held onto mine for years, replacing both the battery and the tiny HDD with a large CF card until I lost it... was a very sad day.

 

[oracrest]

This is my boy:

He is living a brilliant second youth.

Mine as well. I dusted off my brick, and had a nice backlight installed. I also switched out the d-pad and buttons for a NES controller buttons.

I'm currently playing through Link's Awakening for the first time.

 

[flyover]

This Radio Shack electronics kit was my favorite thing in the world when I was a kid:

My wife found one for me a couple of years ago, and it's still pretty cool.

 

[Jayayess1190]

Dell XPS M1210, M1330, and the Sony Vaio SZ. Back when I had a chunky Dell Inspiron 9100 I looked at those laptops to move up to. Ended up getting a new laptop after they had been succeeded and ended up with an Acer 3810T and now an Acer 1830T. I still love all three.

 

[SolsticeZero]

I got that for my birthday as soon as it came out. My favorite Gameboy classic game

 

[spindashing]

You will now be stricken with the fact of not being able to unsee the goatse on the N-Gage.

 

[Ferrio]

I rocked out to Queen on this thing when I was a kid.

 

[bolbronx]

Good times

 

[Mohonky]

Tomy Omnibot. Got it downstairs, was my late Aunties. Needed a little love but it now works flawlessly, made in Japan, things are worth a bit now too.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Final Fight wasn't launch was it??

You're quite right, I'm getting on a bit you know. It was F-Zero and Super Mario World. The others came later!

The slow down on Super R-Type was atrocious, but I still loved it!

I think I can count this as it had electronic sounds:

And the times I had with these...

I played my Mini Munchman so much I got the highest score you could get: HHH (the display only could show up to 999, if you got more points-HHH)

 

[MightyKAC]

As soon as I saw this....

I immediately thought of this...

And then remembered fact that I used to own it AND loved watching that awful show as well...

Ahh good times.....

 

[twinturbo2]

Can I say my Sega Saturn?

 

[Fabiollo]

If Nintendo released a remake of these that had a few gigs of memory and the ability to play downloadable GB/GBC/GBA games I think it would sell a few billion. I still love how meaty they feel.

I agree. It still is one of the most comfortable piece of hardware I own. I just feels good in your hands. Also, I would love to see a modern portable with a similar layout.

Mine as well. I dusted off my brick, and had a nice backlight installed. I also switched out the d-pad and buttons for a NES controller buttons.

Fistbump! I'm using a NES dpad as well, but I'm using green snes buttons.

And Link's Awakening is the best portable zelda ever. Btw, if you enjoy 8 bit music, check out Little Sound DJ.

 

[devildog820]

I rocked out to Queen on this thing when I was a kid.

I loved this thing. Listened to "Frog and Toad are Friends" about 6,000 times. Recorded myself being a jackass and listened to just about everything on it. RIP, little tank.

My grandma had this at her house for when the grandkids came. I never knew what it came from, but I played with all the freaking time. Loved the detachable cockpit section.

 

[tedtropy]

Perhaps it's just my laden homosexuality talking, but all I see is a dude grabbing a big robot dick...

 

[besada]

The first is the TRS-80 Model 100. I own two of them both in working order, one of which I still use sometimes. They had amazing keyboards and were years ahead of their time. (And yes, that one's running Apache.)

The second is the Microvision, which is, as far as I know, the first handheld portable game with switchable cartridges. I got mine in 1979 when they came out, and I took it everywhere and played it constantly.

 

[Arjen]

Not that old, and i still have it.
But my favorite piece of electronics ever.

I used to drive my neigbours and parents insane with it :lol

 

[bafflewaffle]

i still use my VCR all the time

for some titles vhs makes a lot of sense, rather do that than pay $30 for a burn on demand dvdr warners archive crap

 

[Scrow]

Mine as well. I dusted off my brick, and had a nice backlight installed. I also switched out the d-pad and buttons for a NES controller buttons.

I'm currently playing through Link's Awakening for the first time.

bad ass

 

[Tashi]

My black 30GB Zune is still my main MP3 player. <3

 

[dejay]

I'll give a shout out to my first mobile (cell) phone...

The mighty Nokia 101. With a stunning non-dot matrix LCD, it had an amazing talk time of maybe 40 minutes and was feather light at 475g (just over a pound). It did come with two batteries and a desktop charger that would also charge the spare battery.

I felt so connected when I wore this on my waist. Unfortunately low pants weren't in so I found myself constantly pulling my pants up.

 

[mclem]

If this thread lasts to the weekend - and if I can borrow a camera - I'll put in a photograph of the shelves in my garage. Suffice to say, there's quite a bit of vintage computer tech there.

 

[BaronLundi]

Behold its mighty 48k of RAM !

Still have it on display, with lots of games (software on cassette tapes ftw). Haven't hooked it up in a while though.

 

[Kentpaul]

The OP fails, i was reading this thread the other night when i was a tad drunk and stoned.

i was expecting him to post some old ass 60s TV or something along they lines but he posted a modern MP3 player :lol

 

[dejay]

Behold its mighty 48k of RAM !

Still have it on display, with lots of games (software on cassette tapes ftw). Haven't hooked it up in a while though.

Nice - here's my childhood computer - the amazing VZ-200, with 8K of RAM!

I wrote a BASIC hangman program on it once, copied from a book, but decided to add some more of my own words. I ran out of RAM just by adding string variables :lol That was until dad bought me the 16K expansion, which stuck out the back about 8 inches. I never ran out of room with 24K!

It had 8 colours, but you could only display 4 at a time from 2 banks. It was from this humble machine that I started my journey down the road to very bad programming technique.

 

[Rei_Toei]

This is where gaming really took off for me.

 

[Government-man]

Playing Tetris, Castle, Leisure suit Larry. Rocking 512 k ram and ~5mHZ CPU. Played on this + an old IBM when I was a kid even though they really were dated even back when I started.

 

[BaronLundi]

Nice - here's my childhood computer - the amazing VZ-200, with 8K of RAM!

http://imgur.com/Ea96d.jpg[/IM]
I wrote a BASIC hangman program on it once, copied from a book, but decided to add some more of my own words. I ran out of RAM just by adding string variables :lol That was until dad bought me the 16K expansion, which stuck out the back about 8 inches. I never ran out of room with 24K!

It had 8 colours, but you could only display 4 at a time from 2 banks. It was from this humble machine that I started my journey down the road to very bad programming technique.[/QUOTE]

Mwahaha. Mine was next-gen fore sure : it could display 8 colors in the foreground AND 8 IN THE BACKGROUND. Awesome.

Of course a few years later a friend got an Amstrad CPC 464 (or was it 6128?) and poor Oric was no longer the star...

I've never programmed but I wish I could find the ones my father made for me at the time. It'd be such a nostalgia rush. Gonna find a way to hook this baby up.

 

[Myke Greywolf]

The ZX Spectrum home computer:

The Hewlett Packard 48G graphic calculator:

And, of course, the Nokia 3310/3330. Built like a tank:

 

[Shaneus]

Just remembered, I'll always be fond of this particular piece of hardware:

PC1640, 8MHz 8086, 640Kb RAM, ECD screen and an AdLib soundcard. Obviously dated now, but back in the day it was the absolute shit. So many good games, most in high(er) res... I remember holidaying when I was a kid, begging to go home with my parents (when they made a trip back to the city) just so I could play the computer while they did washing or whatever. Musty house smell, closed curtains, parents busy and me playing away on Duke Nukem, Dangerous Dave 2 or any of the multitude of Sierra AGI games I had (Space Quest 2 was a favourite).

Seriously fucking loved that machine... even when it was well and truly outdated by things like extended memory, math coprocessors and MMX, I still loved it. It was a foray into geekdom that I'm still trying to weasel my way out of (and failing miserably :lol ).

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

Headset FM Radio (Fuck your AM!)

Can't find my exact model but I used to love these things and their 8 hours on 2 AAA batteries. I still have one stowed in my mothers van for when I go home and she wants to drive and listen to her shitty AM/FM stations. It's probably older than some posters here.

And when I went to New York, for some reason I thought I was 'fly' because i rocked these things out in public. I know how wrong I was in retrospect.

 

[ResidentDante]

That brings back memories!

When I was little I thought the "DOT MATRIX WITH STEREO SOUND" text was a warning. I thought dot=don't and to matrix with something was to mess around with it. So for me it meant: Don't mess around with the stereo sound :lol

 

[DonMigs85]

I want my PS3 to say Cell Broadband Engine™ Inside like the GB had the Dot Matrix thing and Genesis had the big 16-BIT.