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

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Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
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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you must have missed my post.
 
Originally posted by: Eghck
Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
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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you must have missed my post.
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You must have hit reply about 2 seconds before I edited it in 😛
 
Old hard disk platters?

I have no idea where this came from, its been sitting in its own little plastic case for years in the back of my closet. It says 'Scotch 949/80A' on it, and was apparently manufactured by 3M. Also it's pretty big, 14'' across. Anyone know something about this thing?
 
Originally posted by: Vortex22
Old hard disk platters?

I have no idea where this came from, its been sitting in its own little plastic case for years in the back of my closet. It says 'Scotch 949/80A' on it, and was apparently manufactured by 3M. Also it's pretty big, 14'' across. Anyone know something about this thing?
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Can you possibly take a higher resoloution picture? I cant quite make out what you're trying to show us.

Thanks!
 
hmm, I don't think I have any rare hardware, although I'd like to think I would.
Originally posted by: mugs
I have some 1 MB 30-pin SIMMs... I guess those might be hard to find nowadays.
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I have a handfull of 256kb 30-pin SIMMs.

120ns!

Yes, that is one-hundred and twenty nanoseconds. Blazing sh!t.

😉
 
From the "old" days:
Akai GX-625 full size reel-to-reel tape deck with glass heads (still fully functional and sounds great with all the 70's and 80's music I recorded from vinyl)

From the "not so old" days:
An Abit Media XP pro 5.25 inch media bay with remote control (It has every media and memory interface you can imagine and looks cool too but I thought it was overkill so I replaced it with a 3.5 inch media bay. Anybody wanna buy it?)
 
Original memory boards from the Whirlwind Computer.

Edit: Atleast, I think that is what they are from. I'll have to ask my Dad.
 
Originally posted by: ninjazed
From the "old" days:
Akai GX-625 full size reel-to-reel tape deck with glass heads (still fully functional and sounds great with all the 70's and 80's music I recorded from vinyl)
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Very nice. I have a pair of Akai tower speakers. Flat down to 50hz, powered by a Sansui 8080DB. :thumbsup:
 
I have some odd videogame hardware, Neogeo pocket color, virtual boy, and a vintage 70's atari 2600 complete with 2 pong paddles and 4 of the joysticks. I even have the original coleco/nintendo donkey kong 😀, although just a month or two ago the original atari power brick finally gave out. 🙁 (If anyone has one to sell, PM me!)

 
I have a functioning 1970 Sony STR-7065A with similiar vintage pioneer bookshelf speakers and turntable.

Loud as hell, and has RCA in so I use the whole thing as my computer speakers. I love it.
 
My printer stand is currently an HP K-Class 9000 HP-UX minicomputer. 100 MHz of RISC uselesness in a case the size of a dorm refrigerator that weighs at least 85 pounds. It runs but it sounds like a table saw. Makes a good printer stand.
 
I've got a WaveMate Jupiter II. It's some kind of backplane based 6800 machine(I think) in a 4U rackmount with another 4U case with two 8 inch floppy drives. Lots of hand done wirewrap. If anybody has any real information on it, please tell.
 
There're two 20th Anniversary Macs floating around in my family. I'm a fan of my Mac SE (dual floppy, 4x1mb SIMMS, 64MB HD) that still boots. Booted first time in 7 years and it had the correct time +7 minutes. Asked me if I wanted to do a Retrospect Backup since it hadn't run in some two thousand days.

And a Hauppauge WinTV Tuner. From 1996. ISA.
 
Originally posted by: Raduque
Originally posted by: ninjazed
From the "old" days:
Akai GX-625 full size reel-to-reel tape deck with glass heads (still fully functional and sounds great with all the 70's and 80's music I recorded from vinyl)
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Very nice. I have a pair of Akai tower speakers. Flat down to 50hz, powered by a Sansui 8080DB. :thumbsup:
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If you think that's nice....I'm still using the Sansui SP-X9700 speakers that I bought in the Philippines with the rest of my "dream" system at that time. The audio was powered by a Sansui AU-919 amp with seperate tuner and graphic equalizer. The audio equipment still works but has been retired to my den while the 4-way, 7 driver X9700 behemoths still sound way too good in my home theater to retire yet. Even after 28 years!

 
I have a couple Micro Channel Token Ring network cards and a MAU.

A friend of mine has a Super EGA (not VGA) graphics card.

Dave
 
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