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

[acemcmac]

I got this gem from ebay for $20 a few years back. It's been very useful in some of my more exotic projects.

1, 2

it's an Intel 10/100 Tulip Card

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Probably a $1000< Radius video card for my G3 Mac.

 

[MrPickins]

I have 2 athlon 64's that are Newcastle core socket 939 3700+
ADA3700DEP4AW
RABSC 0401WPBW

Never released to the public.

 

[mugs]

I have some 1 MB 30-pin SIMMs... I guess those might be hard to find nowadays.

 

[imported_goku]

A SCSI II card made by buslogic, Circa 1996? That apparently either went for $2000 or $4000 (can't remember where I found this information and the validity is unknown)

 

[ForumMaster]

nothing that i can think of. almost no-one has the same DVD burner that i have but it's not rare. nothing really.

 

[newParadigm]

2 VoodooII's in SLI on a 6mb S3 Virge.

 

[imported_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

 

[mondobyte]

hmmm ... these come to mind ...

Dual 3.5"/5.25" Floppy Drive (working x 3)

IBM PS2/35 Computer complete with original setup diskette, 3COM EISA Ethernet, Sound Card, 127mb HD. I acquired it New In The Box in 1999 and it has seen very, very few hours of use since then ... works great but is too painfully slow.

DOS 2.0 on 180K 5.25" diskettes (with original labels) in the binder.

Windows NT Beta 2 CD's (before it was Windows NT)

Visual Basic (before it had any version numbers) ...

CPM DOS (on 5.25 Floppy)

Do any of these come close ????

 

[mondobyte]

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

I've got a box of them ...

 

[mondobyte]

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

I've got an Athlon Mobile XP3200 and and Athlon Mobile 2500 that are unlocked ... they can be overclocked ... a whole bunch ...

 

[mondobyte]

Originally posted by: acemcmac
I got this gem from ebay for $20 a few years back. It's been very useful in some of my more exotic projects.

1, 2

it's an Intel 10/100 Tulip Card

I have several of these running right now ... along with a lot of dual NICs

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: mondobyte

Originally posted by: acemcmac
I got this gem from ebay for $20 a few years back. It's been very useful in some of my more exotic projects.

1, 2

it's an Intel 10/100 Tulip Card

I have several of these running right now ... along with a lot of dual NICs

where did they come from? what's the history?

 

[dbk]

MONDOBYTE WINS

 

[pennylane]

Koss KSC-35's...
or Grado HF-1... or whatever it's called. The special "Head-Fi" edition of the Grado SR-225's.

Those are both headphones.

 

[dbk]

I used to have a NES system rebadged as a Hyundai...I think my parents threw it out few years ago.

 

[everman]

I have the head and magnets from a 1gb drive around here somewhere, maybe even a platter.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: mondobyte

Originally posted by: acemcmac
I got this gem from ebay for $20 a few years back. It's been very useful in some of my more exotic projects.

1, 2

it's an Intel 10/100 Tulip Card

I have several of these running right now ... along with a lot of dual NICs

I've got one of those gathering dust too.

 

[So]

I have a handful of nixie tubes in my desk waiting for me to finish the circuit to drive them.

 

[skyking]

I purchased a piece of cdc6600 core memory as a present for my brother-in-law.
pic

 

[ForumMaster]

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

i have the 2400+ but i didn't consider that "rare" or "exotic." all the mobile's had unlocked multipliers which made them excellent overclockers.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: fanerman91
Koss KSC-35's...
or Grado HF-1... or whatever it's called. The special "Head-Fi" edition of the Grado SR-225's.

Those are both headphones.

If we count audio equipment we use with our computers, I'm probably the only person on AT with a matching Boston Acoustics AVP7 and A7200 since Boston discontinued their electronics line just after introducing their stuff after they were bought be Denon.

 

[daveymark]

got a p3 tualitin laying around here somewhere..

 

[Locut0s]

I lived for 4 years in China and Taiwan when I was young, mother chinese father caucasian. Currently we live in Canada and my father teaches Chinese at a local college. Anyway many years back, in the days of the 286, my father got a hold of an expensive chinese word processor called Tianma. Because of memory limitations and other hardware limitions all the fonts for the program were stored on a hardware ISA card. The program had a very large number of fonts and the card they were on was HUGE, like 14 inches long or so. I think the card is still kicking around somewhere.

 

[ed21x]

hmm... Benwin EX4A 2.1 speakers, an iomega Jazz drive :Q