What's your most underused peripheral?

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dolph

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scanner is sitting in my closet, 12 feet away. memory card reader is tied with my pos digital camera (i really need a new one... that slim minolta's damn pretty), and floppy comes in at a close 3rd.
 

XCLAN

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I have a razer boomslang 2000 mouse.....never use it........maybe i will sell it?
I have a scanner...that isnt even hooked up....
have a lexmark 3200 printer....havent used in over 1 year....ink emptied and i was too cheap to buy new ink.
microsoft gamevoice...still in box.
intel wireless mouse and gamepad.......unopened....
cordless logitech mouse.......never use ....
cordless keyboard......havent used in 1 year and a half......{was in a clan match running the flag in Unreal Tournament...batterires died....6 feet from the flag....luckily my guyz boosted me to the flag so i scored....lol}....this was against WW who was ranked in the top 10 we were ranked 12th....on ProvinGrounds.com.
 

Squisher

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My computer DVD player. I think I did one screen capture from it in the three years I've had it.


I use my scanner a lot and between myself and the wife we have probably gone through 10K sheets of paper on our two printers this year(can't say enough about refilling ink carts.).

 

Kadarin

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I have a Zip 100 (parallel) that I bought like 4 years ago that I think I've used once or twice when I first got it. I also have a joystick that I got from a former employer that I think I've never used. Oh, and a Hauppage TV tuner card (which is kind of cool, but I have no cable in that room).
 

sharkeeper

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Jan 13, 2001
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Quantum DLT4000 HVD SCSI Tape drive. Damn thing was already too small when I got it. Makes a nice doorstop though! :eek:

Cheers!
 

Darein

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Nov 14, 2000
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My scanner which is stuck in a box somewhere at home. Or maybe my joystick. I don't even know if it works anymore.
 

CJZ

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Jan 24, 2001
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My logitech gamepad. It's had less use than my floppy drive.
 

aux

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Mar 16, 2002
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Originally posted by: grasshopper26
I noticed that not one person said:

FLOPPY DRIVE!!!

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Grasshopper

I used my floppy drive earlier today to boot in dos and create an image file of one of my disk's partitions using norton (symantec) ghost.

My most underused peripheral is a Kensington WebRacer (because I don't have a scanner).

Edited (actually added):
Several days ago I tried to uninstall something and install newer version of the same product. The result was that there were two almost identical entries for two versions of the same product in the Programs list and of course I didn't like that. Windows refused to delete one of them (being nonexistant, although clearly visible in Start -> Programs). Booting in dos did the trick :)

Dos and floppies rule :)
 

LOLyourFace

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Jun 1, 2002
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my HP Deskjet printer.

I never use it.. maybe because I'm Jr in business now and I never write paper anymore.
 

nomatic

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I actually use my scanner quite a bit, too. BTW, if anyone is looking to unload a 250mb zip drive, send a PM my way.
 

Fritzo

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Yep, tie between the scanner and the webcam. Ironically, they were also my cheapest peripherals.