CNET From Old School To Tech Cool Winner

CNET's From Old School to Tech Cool Contest asked our Facebook fans to share photos of old tech, with the ten most popular qualifying for a chance to win the Panasonic TC-PST60. This plasma TV is a 2013 Editors' Choice and the only TV to ever receive a 5-star rating from CNET.

Congratulations to Garret W, whose photo of an old-school portable computer won the contest. TV reviewer David Katzmaier selected the winner from among the top ten vote-getting entries.

"There was a lot of great old tech among the final photos," said David, "but I liked the 'portable' TRS-80 computer from 1979 best. With a monochrome monitor, separate keyboard, archaic peripherals and even a three-ring binder, all encased in a massive wood trunk complete with handles, it shows just how far computing and portable tech have come."

Here's winner Garret W's own description of the photo:

"Inspired by the Osborne 1, this a 'portable' 1979 Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I with an Exatron Stringy Floppy mass storage device and a 5 megabyte RAM drive. It was about as portable as a sofa."

Thank you to everyone who participated and a special congratulations to the ten finalists with the most user votes. Check out their submissions in the following slides.

"This comes From NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center it's a Tektronix RM561a Oscilloscope, that was surplus from nasa. it was a top of the line model during the start of development of the Apollo Program. It has a date stamp of calibration on apr 22 1965 @ NASA's msfc calibration facility.. Apollo 1, failed on January 27, 1967. This Item still works today after cleaning the switch contacts after its restoration." - Amanda E.

Congratulations to Amanda E. for receiving the most user votes!

The Polaroid Red Stripe One Step Flash was first released in the early 1990s. I bought this gem for $5 in a sunday flea-market. The Red Stripe One Step Flash has a single-element 116mm plastic lens, fixed focus with a standard minimum focal length of 4 feet, electronic shutter, programmed auto-exposure system and a built-in flash. The mechanics are so unbelievably simple and perfectly engineered that even after decade long usage it continues to deliver stunning vintage images when coupled with the right film."- Gautam G.

"The Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and Sega Dreamcast laid out in front of a Magnavox Floor Model CX9716 TV with rabbit ears." -Tom R.

"Working original Pong Console from 1976. This was my mothers first game console. It's got 4 game modes and works on battery power. All 4 'paddles' work perfectly." - Kevin T.

"Mamiya C33 Professional is an interchangeable lens TLR camera manufactured by Mamiya and produced between 1965-69"- Kanupriya K.

"Philco. Model No. 46-480, circa 1946."- Kevin K.

"The Olivetti Co. was a major maker of typewriters throughout the 20th century. Even though the company began shifting its focus toward computers in the 1950s -- eventually going bankrupt in 1999 -- it continued to make manual, then electric typewriters until people started to abandon the devices for computers. Olivetti Lettera 35, a portable manual manufactured in the mid-'60s, is antique by modern standards." - Kanupriya K.

"RCA Studio 2 Home Programmer gaming console from 1976 including original tennis game." - Jon H.

"The Polaroid Model J66 was a simplified Electric Eye camera marketed from April 1961-1963; it is a larger, heavier version of the J33, which debuted in the fall of 1961. Polaroid made nearly 1,000,000 units of this camera, which retailed for $89.99, a lot of money in 1961"- Kanupriya K.