Post the most retro PC item you can find

emmaning

Hiya simmers
So today I ask you to post an image of the most retro PC item (can be anything to do with a PC hardware/mouse/computer/keyboard etc etc) you can find. It can be anything of your choice.

I'll start with this:

It can be anything and it's fine to repeat an item.
^^ I said the most retro you can find, I just meant the one that is retro and stands out most to you and it doesn't have to be the oldest item you can find, this thread is just for fun after all ^^

HausOfSuper

Oh my God I had one of these!

Sue_D_Nim

"Pshaw", I say. And "Bah, Humbug" too. You youngsters don't know from "retro".

This is more or less what my first modem looked like. It transmitted at 300 baud, which does not necessarily mean 300 bps. The really old modems transmitted 1 bit per baud, so this one was likely 300, but could have been as high as 1,200 bps!

icmnfrsh

I took this picture last year while cleaning out my drawers. The GPU is from my Sims 2 days, so circa 2005. The floppy is anyone's guess.

AngelEb95

haha, you should have seen my first computer.

DragonAge_300905

This link has pictures of the first computers, starting from 1822 up to 1983.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm

Colton147147

http://www.amazon.com/Datamancer-The-Sojourner-Keyboard/dp/B00MJ3M91E/ref=sr_1_33?ie=UTF8&qid=1440901439&sr=8-33&keywords=gaming+keyboard

DragonAge_300905

Colton147147 wrote: »

http://www.amazon.com/Datamancer-The-Sojourner-Keyboard/dp/B00MJ3M91E/ref=sr_1_33?ie=UTF8&qid=1440901439&sr=8-33&keywords=gaming+keyboard

LOL at the first review.

GabbyGirlJ

Here's a good one for computer history buffs:



My father told me that he remembers working with computers like that.

Skyscraperfan

this thing be way older then anything else

AMofOz

A few years ago I still had stashed my Windows 3.1 PC = I got rid of when moving house and downsizing.

Looked pretty much like this:

Mightydan

I liked to play with this little ball when I was a kid

Ping Yo

Mmmm.. found this in my closet..

Sue_D_Nim

AMofOz wrote: »

A few years ago I still had stashed my Windows 3.1 PC = I got rid of when moving house and downsizing.

Looked pretty much like this:

You'd be surprised how normal that looks to me.

PHOEBESMOM601

How about keypunch cards? The key punch operators in my office were in a glass room that was climate controlled and only certain people were allowed into the room to keep down dust.

For those of you who don't remember.....you provided the key punch operators with information, they transferred it to the cards, they gave you the cards and you gave them to the computer department who would run them through the computer and then they would give you a print out that might be the size of an library. This whole process only took a few days.