what was the coolest peripheral you ever had, that you wish you didn't hafta get rid of?

[wj]

Floppy drive, don't never used it that much so want never die I don't think.



wj

 

[Zenmervolt]

My ViewSonic V75F monitor, my IBM keyboard, and my Kensington "Mouse In A Box" that I got for $7 after my fancy infa-red cordless mouse got too annoying. Unless is dies, my HP DeskJet 560C will probably be around as well. Oh, almost forgot the 3.5 floppy, I still have a lot of old stuff on floppy, probably never get rid of it.

Aaron Meyer

 

[piku]

My Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad. It rules! (actually I have 2 of them, so they rule )

 

[Sir Fredrick]

Ok, here goes:

APC Back-UPS 500VA

Inwin Q500 case

Ultraplex 40Max (at least until Plextor comes out with a DVD drive)

Plexwriter 820

Logitech Marble FX+

Viewsonic Optiquest V75

I would include my Microsoft Natural keyboard, but it's getting old and crusty, it's bound to need replacing within the next couple years.

 

[AMB]

I guess that I will keeping my FDD, and also my Sony G400,

I do not know what else though, maybe my Keyboard, but not my mouse though

 

[Bling Bling]

NIC/modem. the others might all be gone

 

[ndee]

Microsoft Intellieye Optical Mouse, Microsoft Internet Keyboard, Microsoft Game Voice(it roooooooocks). As you can see, Microsoft makes sweet Hardware, but not software......

 

[ArkAoss]

good cool keep this live, i was gonna keep my 17 in monitor for the nest few years, it'll make a nice secondary, but some dumb looser nocked it off its stand, and now its dying!!!

 

[ArkAoss]

bumpage

 

[HaVoC]

My two remaining pieces of hardware that are original to my frankenstein computer:

1. The trusty but old USR Sportster 56K hardware ISA modem. Doesn't have the best connect rates in adverse line conditions, but I think 56K is joke so once disabled, it connects at 33.6 rates like a champ. I still need it for faxes and *GASP* should my broadband connection ever crap out.
   The Palo Alto Micron case that is the only other original piece of equipment from my old Micron PII-266. What can I say? It's a cramped case with an old ATX 2.0 powersupply that has the fan blowing in. I flipped the PS fan out which barely works but I love the 92MM fan cage in which resides the oh-so quiet and trust Panaflo 92MM unit. The plastic case with easy take off side panel is a great piece of engineering. Drives are quirky to get to but the whole case is so quiet. To me, quietness is more important that marginal cooling effectives. I only have a 488Mhz Celeron in it with a Goldenorb on it. Heat really isn't an issue now but later when I will likely upgrade to a Thunderbird the beloved case will probably have to go.

 

[Spoooon]

My IBM keyboard. It's 8-9 years old and the best keyboard I've ever used. I still use it on one of my other machines. It's a little dirty, but it's got a great feel to it when you type.

 

[ArkAoss]

parts i cant seem to get rid of even if i try, a nameless p 133 mobo with the cpu hard wired to the board, no upgrading that, its never even been mine, yet i end up working on it every six months or so

 

[jaywallen]

110 baud acoustic coupler, phone patch kit, tone generator -- text all the way -- for dire emergencies

 

[ArkAoss]

bump keep this cool thread live

 

[superbaby]

I have no floppy

The only remaining part from my original computer were my Altec Lansing 490 speakers, lasted me a good 6 years. I recently replaced them with Midiland S4 8200's.

And there it is!

 

[Elbryn]

my 3.5 inch floppy drive that originally came from a 386 waay back in time. Also my ps/2 keyboard which has traceable origins to that same 386 system(i think, maybe a 486 a few years later)

 

[BoberFett]

The 3.5" floppy drive out of a 486.

 

[ArkAoss]

bumpage!!

 

[Whitedog]

Wife!








j/k

 

[Redwingsguy]

case fan

 

[AndrewR]

I'm still plugging away on my 6 1/2 year old HP IVP Laserjet. It's only 4ppm, but the text is typeset quality and just as good as the newer ones like the 4000TN I use here at work. I upgraded the memory to 5MB (from 1MB) a couple years ago because it was choking on some Mapquest pages I was trying to print -- cost around $20 to do that. I've supplemented it with a new HP 930C through the eStamp rebate deal awhile back for color printing, but I haven't used that much as I really have enough paper floating around the apartment and need more like I need a hole in the head.

Other than that, everything is at or under 1 year old on my main system with exception of my Advansys UltraSCSI card which runs my Plextor burner and reader (2-3 years old, can't remember). The only part that keeps changing with regularity is my video card as I've gone from a Matrox G200 to a V770 Ultra to a GeForce to a Radeon to a Radeon AIW in the last two years (probably shorter timeframe than that actually).

 

[ArkAoss]

andrewr, you have to apply any special cooling to the chipsets to get that to over clock stabley?

 

[thebestMAX]

Logitech Bus Mouse
Soundblaster Pro card.
Cartridge Tape BU Drive
14.4 external Viva Modem
20 m seagate hdd
386 & 486 MBs with ram
Got an acoustic coupler type modem someplace, arround 120-300bps

 

[ArkAoss]

im lame, the only reason this thread has as amny posts as it does is because i bump it to the top so here's the bump

 

[ArkaossWRK]

i've got a 1x scsi burner i've had for years, cant get rid of it, still good for a burn in a bind