An electronic learning aid for ages 9 and above. Contains a dot matrix LCD screen and a standard-size keyboard. It features several activities, including trivia on science, history, and general knowledge.

Processor: 333 MHz AMD K6-2
RAM: 32MB On-board (expandable to 160MB)
Storage: 3.0 GB
Screen: 12.1" LCD

The ThinkPad was developed to compete with Toshiba and Compaq, who had created the first two portable notebooks, with an emphasis on sales to the Harvard Business School. The task of creating a notebook was given to a Japanese engineer and product designer Arimasa Naitoh, who had joined IBM in the 1970s, now known as the “Father of ThinkPad”.

Processor: Intel Pentium I 150MHz
Screen: 12.1″ DSTN SVGA
CD-ROM 48Mb RAM
Hard disk 773 MB

Vintage computer for old-school gaming.

Motherboard ASUS TX97E
RAM 32 RAM (2x16)
HDD 3 GB Quantum Fireball ST, Japan
Video card ASUS PCI-264GT/PLUS ATI 3D RAGE II+DVD 4 MB
DVD ROM SAMSUNG DVD Master 16E SD-616
KEYBOARD FCC ID : E5XKBM104M1OUC
Audio speakers SVEN 210
Monitor 15"" SAMSUNG SyncMaster 550s

Motherboard ASUS P2B
RAM 128 RAM (2x64)
HDD 8 GB FUJITSU MPD3084AT
Video card S3 Trio3D/2X 2 MB
DVD ROM LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N
KEYBOARD SVEN Comfort 3235
Audio speakers Typhoon STEREO
Monitor 15"" SAMSUNG SyncMaster 550s

Portable Computer by the American company Compaq Computer Corporation. In the late 90s they were a new generation of multimedia portable computers with an innovative and integrated design, outstanding audio and video, advanced core features, and attractive styling. Allows full desktop functionality.

Processor: 333 MHz AMD K6-2
RAM: 32MB On-board (expandable to 160MB)
Storage: 3.0 GB
Screen: 12.1" LCD

The Satellite was a line of laptops manufactured by Toshiba’s computer subsidiary now known as Dynabook Inc. The earliest models in the series, introduced in the early 1990s, were one of the first to directly compete against IBM’s ThinkPad line. The consumer Satellite series later competed against Acer’s Aspire, Dell’s Inspiron and XPS laptops, HP’s Pavilion, and Lenovo’s IdeaPad.

Screen Size 13"
CPU Intel Celeron 650 MHz
RAM 64 MB

The Versa was a line of laptop computers sold by the Japanese electronics conglomerate NEC Corporation from 1993 to 2009. It comprised many form factors of laptops, from conventional clamshell notebooks to pen-enabled convertibles featuring detachable displays, before the line was effectively discontinued in 2009 after NEC pulled out of the global market for personal computers.

Produced by Compaq Computer Corporation. Considered to be one of the most notable units in laptop history due to its battery life (up to 3-hours minimum) and superior performance compared to competing models.

The price started at $5,399.

Laptop series created by Hyundai Technology, part of Hyundai Group.

Slc 425
RAM 2 MB
Hard drive 120 MB
Video 256 KB
Monochrome matrix 10

Personal (home) computer. Was produced in Ukraine for educational needs from 1989 to 1994.

220V
50Hz
20VA

A personal computer produced by the Dnipro Machine-Building Plant. It is a clone of the ZX Spectrum computer of the British company Sinclair Research.

Central processor UA880A, with a clock frequency of 3.5 MHz
RAM 64 KB is implemented on 8 microcircuits of the KR565RU5B type

Canon Navigator is a rare and such a cool machine, and boy it really was “all-in-one” with a built-in printer, scanner, phone, answering machine, fax and touchscreen too!

Produced over 30 years ago.
Built-in thermal printer and fax modem 2x CPUs; A NEC V30 running at close to 14mhz, and a NEC V50, used to handle the Navigator background tasks (sending/receiving faxes, answer, etc.). 640KB RAM for the main system, and 128K used along with the V50 and the Navigator tasks. 9 ~ 10″ grayscale EGA (640×350, 16 shades of gray) touchscreen display Built-in high-density 1.44MB floppy drive 40MB HDD.

Are you intrigued? Well, we confessed we were too:-) Gulipin computers are not widely known and are considered as a rarity, although they were produced in cooperation with IBM. The company that made these computers was called «Soft-tronik» and initially located in Germany, although in 1992 it also opened a factory for computers assembling in Warsaw.

The Personal System/2 or PS/2 wasIBM’s second generation of personal computers. Many of the PS/2’s innovations, such as the 16550 UART (serial port), 1440 KB 3.5-inch floppy disk format, 72-pin SIMMs, the PS/2 port, and the VGA video standard, went on to become standards in the broader PC market. Also PS/2 systems introduced a new specification for the keyboard and mouse interfaces, which are still in use today (though increasingly supplanted by USB devices) and are thus called “PS/2” interfaces.

IBM’s initial PS/2 computers were popular with target market corporate buyers, and by September 1988, IBM reported that it had sold 3 million PS/2 machines. This was only 18 months after the new range had been introduced.

The iMac G4 is an all-in-one personal computer that replaced the iMac G3. The iMac G4 was the first iMac to have an LCD display built in.

Apple advertised the iMac G4 as having the adjustability of a desk lamp. One of the advertisements for the machine featured it sitting in a store window “reacting” to every move made by a passer-by on the street. At the end, when the man sticks out his tongue, the iMac responds by opening its optical drive. It definitely was a dreamboat for many back in the 2000s.

This chess computer allows you to play both against humans and against computers that have several programs and levels of complexity.

Its sensory chess board can directly read moves and allows key entry. LED lights positioned at the edge of the chessboard inform of the moves.

After the huge success of the original Bondi Blue iMac G3 233 MHz, Apple’s new head of the design team Jony Ive, with Steve Jobs behind his shoulder, of course, introduced the series 5 Flavors. The new iMac was not revolutionary or better than the original first iMac, but the colors gave Apple a cool competitive advantage and an ad campaign idea — your computer doesn’t have to look and feel boring.

A lot of people then, and now, asked “here is the computer block?”. They thought that they saw only a monitor, and someone hid the main system block somewhere under the table.

Processor IBM/Motorola PowerPC G3 RISK 266 MHz
Display 15’’ CRT
Graphic card ATI Rage Pro 6Mb
RAM 256Mb
CD-ROM trey-loading
HDD 6Gb
Built-in Ethernet 10/100
Modem 56Kb

The DS, an initialism for “Dual Screen”, introduced distinctive new features to handheld games: two LCD screens working in tandem, a built-in microphone and support for wireless connectivity.

CPU 67 MHz ARM9 and 33 MHz ARM7
Memory 4 MB RAM

Vintage brick game Apollo from the 90s. “Talking” device, 100 games in one.

Tetris was initially created in 1985 and is still popular. Built on simple rules, Tetris established itself as one of the greatest video games ever made. By December 2011, it had sold 202 million copies – approximately 70 million physical units and 132 million paid mobile game downloads – making it one of the best-selling video game franchises. Tetris is available on over 65 platforms, setting a Guinness world record for the most ported video game.

Tamagotchi (“Egg Watch” from Japanese) was created in Japan in 1996, quickly becoming one of the biggest toy fads of the late 1990s and the early 2000s. As of March 2021, over 83 million units have been sold worldwide. Most Tamagotchi are housed in a small egg-shaped handheld video game with an interface consisting of three to five buttons.

16-bit fourth-generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was released in 1988 in Japan as the Mega Drive, and in 1989 in North America as the Genesis. In Japan, the Mega Drive fared poorly against its two main competitors, Nintendo’s Super Famicom and NEC’s PC Engine, but it achieved considerable success in North America, Brazil, and Europe. 30.75 million first-party Genesis units were sold worldwide.

The first Siemens mobile phones were released in 1985. Before being sold to the Taiwan-based BenQ in 2005, they released about 140 models of mobile phones.

Siemens A55 was very popular among Ukrainians in the early 2000s. The phone was released in monochrome.

GSM 900 / GSM 1800
no GPRS
no USB
no IrDA or Bluetooth

Discontinued GSM mobile phone, it replaced the popular Nokia 3210. It sold very well, being one of the most successful phones, with 126 million units sold worldwide, and being one of Nokia’s most iconic devices. The phone is still widely acclaimed and has gained a cult status due to its reputation for durability.

The Motorola RAZR V3, popularly called simply the Razr, was released in November 2004, and was the first device using the RAZR moniker. With its unique and then-thin aluminium body, and affordable price it soon became extremely successful. Over the Razr’s four-year run, it sold more than 130 million units, becoming the best-selling clamshell phone in the world.

The Razr became identified as a “fashion” product and an iconic cell phone in the mid-2000s. It appeared in a lot of TV series, shows, and movies, like Criminal Minds, Lost, Entourage, The Sopranos, Prison Break, The Devil Wears Prada, Oprah Winfrey Show, and many others.

If you had one, you definitely can have your beer in a bar by now:-) The predecessor of SMS, it once was a symbol of prosperity and advancement in tech.

By the way, did you know that the first pagers were invented back in 1949? Wow!

Did you know that Polaroid was an American company, which was founded in the USA in 1937? We know it best as a producer of Polaroid instant cameras, and that magic opportunity they gave to get your pictures right away. That`s how Instagram would look like if it was originally from the 90s, don’t` you think?:-) 

Scientific or programmable calculators were a real hammer in times when Excel was not something everybody has. This guy is from the late 80-s. It can do trigonometrics, exponentials, hyperbolics, standard deviation, continuous memory, unit conversions, constants, but his memory keeps only three numbers. Not very impressive. 

Nevertheless some people still buy these calculators, and Citizen even still produces them.

The Canon BJ-10 is a black and white portable inkjet printer manufactured by Canon since 1990. 

This one is produced in Japan (not in China!). Really small and elegant, but did his job well. 

The only minus was that the cartridge was really small.