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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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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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jackster79: 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!
Three varieties even, or generations, depending on how you see it.

I'm not sure about the 250MB drives, but by the time 750MB drives rolled out they were available in USB versions. Perhaps USB drives were starting to arrive with the 250MB generation and parallel port ones were completely gone with 750MB. Wikipedia should know, but I'm not bothering to check. Drives should also be available on ebay and whatnot. And USB-to-parallel converters/adapters do exist, so it should be possible to connect even ancient drives to a modern machine (and I think even Windows 7 includes drivers).

On the other hand, if I remember correctly, the 750MB drives couldn't use 100MB disks, 250MB drives should be able to use them though (and 750MB drives should be able to use 250MB disks). 250 and 750MB ones weren't as popular though, since CD-R and CD-RW media were becoming cheaper.
Posted March 01, 2015
I'd be more interested in seeing what old games people still keep (game boxes, cassettes/diskettes/cartridges).

I might post some piece of gear later, but probably won't spend too much time digging for it, because I'm not interested in winning.
Posted March 01, 2015
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ET3D: I'd be more interested in seeing what old games people still keep (game boxes, cassettes/diskettes/cartridges).

I might post some piece of gear later, but probably won't spend too much time digging for it, because I'm not interested in winning.
Pretty much every game I ever acquired I still have the box for (bit of a pack-rat in that regard, really).

The oldest game boxes I have are from the NES games.

If we are talking only PC, then it would have to be the X-COM series when there were still on floppies. I had by then already acquired the jewel CD-ROM edition of the original as well as Collector's Edition which included all three games but did not like having PDFs for manuals, so when I found the local EB/Babbage's had the originals in the discount section I pounced.

That being said, two of my first 3 PC games I ever bought when I finally got my very first PC was a bundle of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour. I *think* (not going to check) those are older than X-COM despite using more advanced media.
Posted March 01, 2015
Hi GOG.com Team :)
I dont have any old PC in my House but i found sth. better :)
I Found a old typewriter in a very old Box!
For now im using very old gear and it would be very cool if I win sth.! ;)
I am with something rather unlucky bird....
Best regards from Germany - Funz

PS: The Files was to big so here are the Pictures :)
(http://imgur[dot]com/Xl6Zbhg,K2aAXJP)
Posted March 01, 2015
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jackster79: 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: Three varieties even, or generations, depending on how you see it.

I'm not sure about the 250MB drives, but by the time 750MB drives rolled out they were available in USB versions. Perhaps USB drives were starting to arrive with the 250MB generation and parallel port ones were completely gone with 750MB. Wikipedia should know, but I'm not bothering to check. Drives should also be available on ebay and whatnot. And USB-to-parallel converters/adapters do exist, so it should be possible to connect even ancient drives to a modern machine (and I think even Windows 7 includes drivers).

On the other hand, if I remember correctly, the 750MB drives couldn't use 100MB disks, 250MB drives should be able to use them though (and 750MB drives should be able to use 250MB disks). 250 and 750MB ones weren't as popular though, since CD-R and CD-RW media were becoming cheaper.
Hmmm... interesting. I did not think to check for something like that. A USB Zip drive that can read 100MB disks would give them some more life. Not much purpose to doing so really, since only the machine that has the drive could read them (but that could be used as a "security" feature, since if I lost the disk very few people would just be able to read the contents).
Posted March 01, 2015
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Posted March 01, 2015
This PS1 gave us our grandpa. He was bought it in Netherlands as a Xmas gift for us. We played sooo many games with our friends. It was amazing :) I was very happy when i start it today and it works :)
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Posted March 01, 2015
Here is my entry into the GOG contest, please see both photos as one has a message from my Amiga as to why they are entering this contest.

Picture 1 - The Amiga 500...

Picture 2 - The Message (From the Amiga 500)

Dedicated to the Commodore Amiga 500, a wonderful machine which is never forgotten.

PSS:

This user still loves his Amiga and recently upgraded the memory to 1 Megabyte and added an external drive. Now we are really going places!

-Hillsy_-
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Posted March 01, 2015
This is my keyboard. IBM Model M. The one and only :-)
Yes, its the keyboard I am CURRENTLY USING on my computer :-) I bought it at a garage sale for ~1,50 Euros back in the 90s (20 Schilling back then for anyone who remembers ;-) )
It has a production date of 1987 and is still working like a charm! Modern stuff - in your face!
Actually, the same kind of microswitch-keys is now built into modern gaming keyboards by different companies!
The only problem: my next PC will probably lack the PS/2-port neccessary for my beloved Model M :-(
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Posted March 01, 2015
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Fonzman: This is my keyboard. IBM Model M. The one and only :-)
Yes, its the keyboard I am CURRENTLY USING on my computer :-) I bought it at a garage sale for ~1,50 Euros back in the 90s (20 Schilling back then for anyone who remembers ;-) )
It has a production date of 1987 and is still working like a charm! Modern stuff - in your face!
Actually, the same kind of microswitch-keys is now built into modern gaming keyboards by different companies!
The only problem: my next PC will probably lack the PS/2-port neccessary for my beloved Model M :-(
Actually, as far as I know, those are all Cherry, Alps, or Topre switches, which aren't the same thing. IBM patented the torsion-snap (buckling spring on a rocker plate) actuators used in the Model M and Unicomp bought the patent.

I'm using a Rosewill RK-9000I that I got on sale because I'm too hooked on my custom WinKey-based keybinds (no Linux apps use it by default) to use a real Model M and I didn't buy a Unicomp board before they switched to a design which reorders the right-side modifier keys in the name of providing a Model M-sized spacebar in a 104-key layout.

* Mechanical Keyboard Guide (Everyone should see this)
* clickykeyboards.com (Has an illustration from the IBM patent)

As for the lack of a PS/2 port, try one of these $1.25 USB-PS2 adapters off eBay. For most gaming, they work perfectly well.

If you find that you're one of those people who are hitting the limitations of the chinese chips, you can get something more hardcore gaming-grade for $20 or less if you do your research.
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Posted March 01, 2015
This is my old (probably not the oldest) gear around 1997. It had a 133mhz CPU. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the memory size.
I remember a funny story about my S2 VGA so let me tell you that. It didn't had 3D acceleration but I really wanted to play 3D games. A friend of mine told me, if I install the driver of the new Voodoo 3 graphics card, then I can play with the new games. I believed it, bought a Gamestar (I was a PCGuru reader), installed the drivers... and you know what happened: nothing at all. :)
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Posted March 01, 2015
The oldest hardware i have lying around is an Interton 2000 Pong console and of course my Atari 2600 and Commodore 64 collections. But i'm too lazy to take pics. :D
Posted March 01, 2015
Hey,
Here's my mouse, he has about 5-6 years old and it's the most bravely daemon destroyer in the Earth. He love's GNU/Linux, hack and slash games, coffee and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
But unfortunately seems pretty exhausted, the paint on his body is disappearing and can't follow the rhythm of his brother, a Roccat RYos MK GLow.
He would like to retire to the laptop case where it says could lead an easier life and travel around the world in a peaceful retirement.
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Posted March 01, 2015
Hm. Trying to upload a photo from my phone, but apparently it is too big. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to take a photo with a smaller file size?
Posted March 01, 2015
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Jonesy89: Hm. Trying to upload a photo from my phone, but apparently it is too big. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to take a photo with a smaller file size?
Take photo, copy over to PC then use a paint program to save it as a JPG and just lower the quality of the image. 500K is the maximum size per photo upload.
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