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What is the most exotic piece of computer/electronic hardware you own?

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a duke ipod. just a regular 20gig ipod but on the back it says duke university class of 08, shouldn't be many more than 1600 of those.
 
Far from rare, but most definitely not common, Microsoft DSS80 USB speakers. Also Logitech Bluetooth MX900 mouse and Plextor SATA DVD burner.
 
I have a head mounted display. It's the headset thingie on the left:
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Nice for when you want to lay down and relax, but not stop computing, heh.
 
I have a 486 motherboard with ISA, PCI and VLB slots. It was a delight as my AMD-DX4-133 ran beautifully at 160mhz. The only real downside was the onboard cache chips are fakes. There's a slot to add a cache module, which I did get, but it was unstable at any speed with that cache inserted.

Front page of manual
 
Originally posted by: AnyMal
I have the original Diamond Rio PMP300 in mint condition wih all the accessories and original box.
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I dont have the box but I have the palyer and the cords! Any chance you still have the drivers?
 
I used to have a Psion wavefinder USB radio. Ludicrously expensive - like £350 ($500) when it came out - I impulse bought one at a mega-sale for £100.

It was pretty rare, and loads of people were amused by the trippy colour changing LEDs. However, that didn't stop it from being absolute crap. I recently rediscovered mine which had been hiding in a cardboard box. I laughed a bit then tossed it.

 
Originally posted by: elwood
I have two AMD XP 2500's with factory unlocked multipliers.

One is a mobile CPU, i think all the mobiles are factory unlocked.


I doubt it's pretty exotic or anything, but whatever, i wanted to post it 😛
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I have two of these too, but both are desktop procs :thumbsup:

I also have a SLI V2 8mb, or is it 16mb? Pair of 4mb cards, or pair of 8mb cards? man I can't remember anymore.

Also have a V5 5500, but i don't know if that counts as "rare". Possibly exotic. Hmmm, how about a 939 Sempron64?

I also have one of those weird, hybrid Socket7 mobos with SDR and old-school 72-pin SIMMs, and an AGP slot.
 
I had a power mac 6100 with a built in Dos card that was basically a 486sx. Both processors would run at the same time and you could switch between dos and os 7 or 8 by pressing apple control and enter.
 
Not really exotic, but nice:

Triple 20" LCD's on an Ergotron stand.
Dual Raptors mirroed for OS and a Terabyte of SATA HD.
 
IBM PS/2 Model 77, MCA bus architecture, with two Tolken Ring LAN cards, SCSI, an IBM XGA2 graphics card, and a DAT tape backup drive. It runs OS/2 Warp 3.0.

Oh yeah, a 2.88 MB floppy drive on that one too.

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NAD AV316 Pro Logic Amplifier. Still using it for home theater. One day I'm going to upgrade to something modern. 😱
 
Originally posted by: Jawo
Originally posted by: AnyMal
I have the original Diamond Rio PMP300 in mint condition wih all the accessories and original box.
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I dont have the box but I have the palyer and the cords! Any chance you still have the drivers?
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You should just be able to fill a CF card with the mp3's you want to watch (usb card reader?) and be good to go without drivers if I remember correctly...
 
I have an old Powermac, I want to say it was a 740 or 7400, but it's been a while since I pulled it out and looked at it. That in itself isn't the exotic part, the add-in card that is still plugged in is though, when you hit apple-enter it flips over to a fully functional 486/66 mobo/processor/16MB RAM system, all contained on this board. This was bought at the time that 486's were still in style and the pentium was just coming to market, so it was fairly powerful for it's time to be just an extra card. I have yet to meet anyone else who has even heard of this card, since I assume it was taken out of production shortly after going in.

That card was the single reason I learned so much about dos, windows, and actual system configuration. More than just "click the icon to bring up the wordprocessor."

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Originally posted by: Eghck
I had a power mac 6100 with a built in Dos card that was basically a 486sx. Both processors would run at the same time and you could switch between dos and os 7 or 8 by pressing apple control and enter.
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Nice! I finally meet someone else who had one. I think I have the model after yours, I specifically remember mine being a DX2/66 processor.
 
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