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Posted February 27, 2015
Show off your (old) gear, win shiny new (ROCCAT) gear!

As you know, the GOG.com catalog spans many titles dating back as far as 1980 (, we're looking at you!), in times when computers kind of looked like modern-day [url=http://prepare.icttrends.com/images/2012/06/IBM_PC.jpg]microwaves sat on top of a console, and the first portable computer, the Osborne I, was put on the market in all the glory of its 24 pounds of weight and a steep $1,795 price tag.

We don't expect you to have gear that's quite as old, but we are curious as to what treasures you might be keeping in a box stored away in the basement or deep in an attic drawer. So show us your oldest gear and be greatly rewarded with the some of the newest on the market, courtesy of gaming gear creator and producer ROCCAT!

THE RULES:

- Your entry should consist of 1 or 2 pictures of your old gear and a description of up to 100 words telling us what it is, where you got it, what you used it for or any other fond memories you have with it. Maybe it was your first joystick? Maybe an old Atari controller you kept as a memento? We want to hear about it!
- You can only post one entry per person. If you post more, only the first one will be counted.
- You may not edit your post.
- Use your own photos of your own gear - we do know how to do a reverse image search!

Post your entry in the comments below before the deadline - you have a week, until March 6th, at 1:59 PM GMT. We aim to judge your entries and pick winners by Thursday, March 12th - we'll announce them in the contest forum thread and via PM to the winners themselves.

THE PRIZES:

1st place prize: a ROCCAT Isku, gaming keyboard with blue-tinted illumination, secondary programmable Shift function, and Thumbster Macro Keys below the spacebar to maximise gaming effectiveness

2nd place prize: a ROCCAT Savu, mid-size hybrid gaming mouse with an adjustable, 400-4000 DPI optical sensor, secondary programmable function, customizable illumination, and a powerful driver suite

3rd place prize: a ROCCAT Sense, mousepad with friction-reducing microcrystalline coating for greater mouse speed and precision

All winners will also get GOG.com gift codes to use on games of their choice to test out their new gear!

Honorable mentions: We expect there to be many great-quality entries, so we're reserving the right to give out honorable mentions to all those we find did a brilliant job, but didn't quite make the podium cut. They'll get GOG.com gift codes to use on titles available in our catalog.

Should you be one of our top three winners, we will need some mailing data (name, address, phone number) to ship your prize to you. If the ROCCAT Marketing Team ends up sending the prizes directly to you, we will need to share your mailing information with them. We will not share it with anyone that doesn't need it!

Please note that this contest is also being held on the French and German GOG.com forum - winners will be chosen, regardless of language, from across all three contest topics. :)
Posted March 01, 2015
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Shmacky-McNuts: No friday weekend deals? Pisser =(
http://www.gog.com/promo/weekend_promo_herzlich_willkommen_260215
Posted March 01, 2015
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jackster79: That got me thinking... wonder how many people jumped onto the Zip drive craze? Or even recall what a Zip drive is? :-D
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Maighstir: I did, I even have two of them (should still have, at least, as well as 7 or 8 disks), my first Zip drive was a parallel-port one that thus didn't work with my Mac (it, of course, had a SCSI port that looked exactly the same as a parallel port), but I later got a SCSI drive that worked. They are 100MB drives/disks, and I never acquired any 250MB or 750MB drives though I did want them (the prices of CD-R/RW discs and recorders were sinking so I eventually saved up to get one of those instead).
I did not know that the drive came in two varieties, since I had someone else install it for me. As for the disks, I am sure I only have the 100MB variety (somewhere between 5 and 8 or so). I did not know that other sizes existed until you just mentioned them! Sadly the drive gave out long ago. I still have disks, but they are totally worthless now without a drive that can read them, and finding a working drive, let alone a working machine to attach such a drive to nowadays? A quest for the ages!


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Maighstir: I did, I even have two of them (should still have, at least, as well as 7 or 8 disks), my first Zip drive was a parallel-port one that thus didn't work with my Mac (it, of course, had a SCSI port that looked exactly the same as a parallel port), but I later got a SCSI drive that worked. They are 100MB drives/disks, and I never acquired any 250MB or 750MB drives though I did want them (the prices of CD-R/RW discs and recorders were sinking so I eventually saved up to get one of those instead).
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ServantsOfTwilight: I had an external parallel port Zip drive and an internal ATA Zip drive. The recent Godzila movie had the Zip drives and media (in the beginning set in 1999 and later on in 2014 when Dr. Serizawa was going over Joe Brody's research materials). I was like, "OMGWTFBBQ, Zip disks!" xD

I never had anything above 100 MB either due to the storage tech changing so fast.
Really? I saw that movie, but somehow missed that. Guessing that I did not notice, or took them for some kind of floppy or tape drive. Will have to pay attention next time I see that.

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SteelValor: Here's some of my oldest gear.

Wasteland for C-64
The cloth map from Ultima V
The Silver Anniversary Archives for Dungeons & Dragons
Atari Joysick, MS 3D Sidewinder, Thrustmaster Tacicalboard and THE CLAW!

Enjoy the nostalgia!
I actually considered a couple times trying to acquire that Silver Anniversary pack somehow. Good games there!

I am curious as to what game that map to the right of the Ultima V map goes with.
Post edited March 01, 2015 by jackster79
Posted March 01, 2015
No pics unfortunately, but I once put together an Athlon machine with completely fanless CPU and GPU cooling. You could hardly ask for a quieter box, and with a Geforce 6800 it was aces for all kinds of games up to 2006 (playing in 1024x768).
Posted March 01, 2015
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KoreaBeat: No pics unfortunately, but I once put together an Athlon machine with completely fanless CPU and GPU cooling. You could hardly ask for a quieter box, and with a Geforce 6800 it was aces for all kinds of games up to 2006 (playing in 1024x768).
You won`t believe it, but in the 90s the fan of my 66 Mhz 486 prozessor was broke. So I put a folded toilet paper on the cooler and put a piece of ice on it every fifteen or twenty minutes. This way I was able to play a whole weekend through untill the stores opened on monday, so I could buy a new fan.
Posted March 01, 2015
In my house, we use it until it breaks. As you can see, this old keyboard is still going strong! I still use it on my gaming PC every day. I didn't even think it was a big deal until I had an electrician come out of my office with a huge smile on his face saying he was a huge fan of old mechanical keyboards (having never owned a non-mechanical keyboard, I had to look it up afterward), and that there are lots of people who love and collect them.

After all these years, I appreciate my dirty old keyboard more and more.
Posted March 01, 2015
Zip Drive

These pictures are of my zip drive from 1994. It was amazing storage when it came out originally; came in 100mb size disks, later expanded to 250mb and 750mb. I have kept this because every now and then i get a customer who wants data off zip disks or zip passwords removed.
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Post edited March 01, 2015 by krudy30
Posted March 01, 2015
My oldest gaming gear has to be my TI-99/4A computer. The original model (the TI-99/4) debuted in the late 70s, with this advanced model premiering not too long after. The computer itself played games with 12K RAM of free memory, but was able to do a lot more because the RAM also contained registers for programmable pixel character data using hexadecimal numbers. The TI-99/4A holds the distinction of being the first ever microcomputer to feature a 16-bit processor, although at the time I don't think that TI did enough to utilize all that power.

Many of the games on the TI-99/4A are pretty unique. A good number are learning games, but there also was a horizontal shooter (TI's Parsec), a maze game (Munch Man), a mountain-climbing game (Alpiner), even a dungeon adventure RPG (Tunnels of Doom). Some of these games were enhanced by TI's own Speech Synthesizer add-on, utilizing the same technology that powers their Speak 'n Spell line-up to give games (and programs) distinctive voices.

It was our family's first home computer at the time (early 1980s), and since that time my appreciation for it never waned. Although my TI gaming now consists solely of DreamCodex's Tunnels of Doom Reboot, I still wouldn't mind hooking my TI up to play Parsec again sometime. ^_^
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Post edited March 02, 2015 by GloryQuestor
Posted March 01, 2015
Hi from spain!

There are here my firsts two computers, I bought arrount in 1987-1988, and still woking. I have games in disket and casstte, and still working.Tthe orignal josticks are dead, but i have two six buttons sega-genesis(Megadrive) game-pad, and you can use with them.

I have another old pc a pentium MX 200 Mhz with a voodo-banshe 16Mb, 98Mb RAM but this is another history.
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Posted March 01, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: You won`t believe it, but in the 90s the fan of my 66 Mhz 486 prozessor was broke. So I put a folded toilet paper on the cooler and put a piece of ice on it every fifteen or twenty minutes.
Yikes. That's certainly a step further than I ever would have risked taking for the sake of a weekend's gaming :)

Back when I was playing the enhanced co-processor version of Elite on my BBC, the 65c102 would over-heat slightly. Taking the lid off wasn't quite enough so, in addition, as a make-shift heat-sink, I would just sit an up-ended row of staples on top of the chip whenever I was playing that game.

Remarkably, it was enough. The game would crash reliably without the staples, but was absolutely fine with them in place.
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Posted March 01, 2015
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Sertineitor: The first picture is, if I remember correctly, my first keyboard. Is mechanical keyboard!!
Excuse the dirt but has used very much besides me.
The keyboard is the Acer brand and has metal structure. And it works smoothly.

The second photo is an inkjet printer Epson Stylus 400, this printer has printed many documents and photos, in fact still works. Although recently the injectors are much obstructed, we have to clean them.

Despite its age these two gears work as I have said.

In store room of my house I have much older computer equipment, but I find it very difficult to find. Although if you ask me to find it then I will find in my store room.

Regards
I have the same Keyboard, now and still use.
Posted March 01, 2015
This was my first ever gaming pc. If you could call it that. I got it as a hand me down from my sister in 1998 or 1999. All i remember was that it was an Acer and it had a Pentium 233 or 333 in it. I remember adding a Geforce 2 to it and was able to "play" pc games finally! I played A LOT of The Sims. Yes my desk was a horrid mess, and no I don't remember why there was a wooden checkerboard between the pc and monitor.....
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Posted March 01, 2015
My old Atari 2600 gaming deck purchased somewhere between 1977 and 1978 which had six switches as opposed to only four for later versions, complete with joysticks and Pong paddle controllers. And yes, that is a copy of the infamous E.T. adventure game, so sue me. The second pic is a small selection of game cartridges for the 2600 that I still own and played to the death.
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Post edited March 01, 2015 by Anubis1980
Posted March 01, 2015
A Toshiba T5200 laptop form the early 90's, with plasma display, showing Quest for Glory three.

My dad (that unworthy asshole) said it cost 5 million Italian Lires in the early 90s. It would be 2500 euros today, but the ISTAT (the main statistics institute in Italy) states that it equates almost 4700 euros, counting inflation.

The 8" disks and the card tapes are there just for show (nowadays it's hard to see bits with the naked eye - I just thougth it was cool...) .

Specs: [url=]http://www.datasalen.se/Utstallning/Data/Toshiba/toshibat5200eng.htm[/url]
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Posted March 01, 2015
Well got into an accident and picked these thingies up, I am so bad explaining things :'(
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Posted March 01, 2015
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GloryQuestor: but there also was a vertical shooter (TI's Parsec)
Vertical? Wasn't it horizontal? And didn't you need to refuel every now and then?
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