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

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Kaido

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I had a G4 Cube. It was pretty neat. Recently sold it though :(
 

Cristatus

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Originally posted by: Tegeril
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.

I have something similar to that. It's a shame that I have to ask at such a late time, but did you manage to find XP drivers for that thing?

It's in a PIII machine with not a lot of RAM...which reminds me: I need some ram for that machine :(
 

AMCRambler

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Jan 23, 2001
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Got an old ATI Rage Fury Maxx vid card with dual processors on it. They stopped support for it when 2000 and XP came out because supposedly they couldn't deal with a dual proc vid card. Now we have SLI though, so I think ATI was blowing smoke up my butt.
 

GuitarDaddy

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Originally posted by: mugs
I have some 1 MB 30-pin SIMMs... I guess those might be hard to find nowadays.

I've got 8 of those that I paid over $400 for:( in the early nineties
 

theknight571

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I have a Vectrex game system with 4-5 games and "screens".

Probably the most "exotic" item I can think of at the moment.
 

Scarpozzi

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I have a box of Commodore Vic 20s somewhere at my parent's house. I also have a timex sinclair (non-working), and a bunch of random systems C64, Amiga 500, some TIs, etc...
 

shortylickens

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A fancy HP monitor.
http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2467

Not just because its expensive, but despite getting excellent reviews, I dont know of anybody that has one besides myself.

Also have a Silverstone Temjin Case and I dont know of anybody else with one.
Had an HP LaserJet 1000 and (up until the movers broke it) the thing worked great for many years.
Despite the effieciency and quality of low-end lasers, I dont know anybody else that has one. At work we use mid range lasers and at home it seems most folks try to outdo each other with more and more expensive inkjets.
 

Cristatus

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Originally posted by: shortylickens
A fancy HP monitor.
http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2467

Not just because its expensive, but despite getting excellent reviews, I dont know of anybody that has one besides myself.

Also have a Silverstone Temjin Case and I dont know of anybody else with one.
Had an HP LaserJet 1000 and (up until the movers broke it) the thing worked great for many years.
Despite the effieciency and quality of low-end lasers, I dont know anybody else that has one. At work we use mid range lasers and at home it seems most folks try to outdo each other with more and more expensive inkjets.

On the note of displays that many people don't have: I have a Nokia display (CRT) and a Philips touchscreen (with the touchscreen interface by elo).
 

AnyMal

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Nov 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: acemcmac
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.

I dont have the box but I have the palyer and the cords! Any chance you still have the drivers?

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...

It uses Smart Media card. Remember those? lol
 

mrSHEiK124

Lifer
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Sega Nomad, bought it in horrible condition for $20 with about 10 Genesis games, now it's as good as new :)
 

SonnyDaze

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Jul 31, 2004
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Iomega 100MB Parallel Port External Zip Drive w/3 disks. :)

DOS 6.22 Setup disks....

 

Horus

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Well, two relitively rare items.

1) Compaq Portable II. Lugabout, one of the first "Laptops". No battery, orange/black plasma display, 2 5 1/4 floppy drives, no HD. Still boots. And the case is awesome for lanparty usage.

2) Logitech iTouch Mouseman. Force feedback mouse. It was AWESOME. But then I fell in love with the MX700/1000.
 

BooGiMaN

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Jul 5, 2001
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i have an original atari 2600, commodore vic 20, commodore 128 with both tape and floppy drives

i also have a colecovision with the robot and the adam computer add on...
 

JImmyK

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Oct 9, 1999
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I've got to win this
I have an original Apple II c with the monochrome screen and breaker the game.

Also have the first 3d card I believe, Edge 3D from Diamond Multi Media