Post an image link to the goofiest gadget you ever bought...

[lxskllr]

Disco mouse...

http://www.perpetualkid.com/in...n=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2343

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: 2canSAM
Loved the Moto StarTAC but was pimpin when I added this sucker to it StarTAC goodness

Even more goodness for the StarTac.
I carried one of these in my truck for as long as I had my StarTac. It had a detachable headlight that may it even more better.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

stroke-o-matic flashlight

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.

This. It got the infamous "click of death". Customer support wouldn't do anything for me.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.

This. It got the infamous "click of death". Customer support wouldn't do anything for me.

I still have an external 100Mb Zip drive. My employer standardized on zip drives as the means for spreading viruses around the office prior to the rise of thumb drives. Employees still have old files sitting on zip disks so it is good to keep a drive around in order to recover crap people forgot all about until we need it.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.

This. It got the infamous "click of death". Customer support wouldn't do anything for me.

I still have an external 100Mb Zip drive. My employer standardized on zip drives as the means for spreading viruses around the office prior to the rise of thumb drives. Employees still have old files sitting on zip disks so it is good to keep a drive around in order to recover crap people forgot all about until we need it.

It's funny because it's true.

MotionMan

 

[ebaycj]

Originally posted by: Possessed Freak

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: Possessed Freak
ALR 6x6

What a money sink. You have to click through the links to fully understand how geeky this sucker was.

What made you build this?

Dude, 1.2 ghz of pentium pro goodness. I wish that site was mine, but picture a more ghetto solution to get mine up and running.

You should have pin-modified them to run at 233. Then you would have had 1.4 GHz of Pentium Pro Goodness.

And potentially up to 6mb of cache.

And a lot of cache coherency traffic on the bus.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.

This. It got the infamous "click of death". Customer support wouldn't do anything for me.

I still have an external 100Mb Zip drive. My employer standardized on zip drives as the means for spreading viruses around the office prior to the rise of thumb drives. Employees still have old files sitting on zip disks so it is good to keep a drive around in order to recover crap people forgot all about until we need it.

I have an external one AND there's an internal one around here somewhere. Zip drives were junk even when they were new.

 

[MotionMan]

Originally posted by: Raduque

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.

This. It got the infamous "click of death". Customer support wouldn't do anything for me.

I still have an external 100Mb Zip drive. My employer standardized on zip drives as the means for spreading viruses around the office prior to the rise of thumb drives. Employees still have old files sitting on zip disks so it is good to keep a drive around in order to recover crap people forgot all about until we need it.

I have an external one AND there's an internal one around here somewhere. Zip drives were junk even when they were new.

I forgot about the 2 or 3 internal ones I had at various times. I guess I was a bit of a Zip Drive Fanboy at one time. 😉

MotionMan

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: MotionMan

Originally posted by: Raduque

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: Locut0s

Originally posted by: xSauronx
http://www.recycledgoods.com/zoom_s_p_10744_1.jpg.ashx

iomega Zip external pata drive with 100MB disks.

what a fucking waste, it was $100 for the drive with a disk, and another $12 per disk. it was painfully slow. added to that, drivers were a bitch. i lost the original driver floppy, and the replacement drivers you could download were bigger than a floppy...and this was well before writable CDs were around.

grrr.

This. It got the infamous "click of death". Customer support wouldn't do anything for me.

I still have an external 100Mb Zip drive. My employer standardized on zip drives as the means for spreading viruses around the office prior to the rise of thumb drives. Employees still have old files sitting on zip disks so it is good to keep a drive around in order to recover crap people forgot all about until we need it.

I have an external one AND there's an internal one around here somewhere. Zip drives were junk even when they were new.

I forgot about the 2 or 3 internal ones I had at various times. I guess I was a bit of a Zip Drive Fanboy at one time. 😉

MotionMan

Zip disks were a bit of a comedown from the elegance that was the Bernoulli Box. When I was in grad school I was able to store the entire GIS system I had developed on one Bernoulli disk. The noises made by the Bernoulli drive was very satisfying in a high tech, geeky way.

 

[Rubycon]

Syquest > iomega! Their 1.5GB SCSI syjets were amazing but too fragile. After all they were HDD technology.