What the most exotic piece of hardware you own?
An original open source buttplug signed by RMS.
>>109920364Spectrum Next. It brings me /g/joy. Pleasing in every way.
>>109920409Is it liberated from proprietary butts?
Wildly misunderstood piece of hardware
>>109920364Actually probably more exotic an original working romantic robot multiface 3 plugged into an original working sinclair spectrum +3 all fully working compleet with working 3 inch Amstrad floppy drive.It's so exotic the center for computing nhistory does not have it only the 1 and 2https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/pages/49753/site-search/?q=multiface&x=0&y=0
Acorn Archimedes A4000 (not my image)
>>109920364nothing crazy but its somewhat exotic since it got EOL'd a while back
>>109920364a p4 and geforce mx2 i guess. all that build. i think i also have like a pci modem that i never used bc i got it from some random broken computeroh and a analog pci tv card
>>109920557Based, very niceMy zx81 16K RAM pack says hallo and my sinclair interface 2 says hi
>>109920624LUV IT SIMPLE AS
>>109920436had the original. that clone along with you are very cringe
>>109920364I have two chromebooks
>>109920730I have the original 48K but I love the next and it's not a close, you don't seem to have a clue. Case was designed by the original 48K case designer and it's my favorite way to put machine cores on FPGA.
>>109920479What's a good use?>>109920588I always heard good things about Optane.Crazy how the market works.
>>109920364in 2023, i bought an old dual-processor 1U server made by a russian company, based on an IBM QS22 blade serverit has two PowerXCell 8i CPUs, and there's very little information about this particular server on the webi have no idea how many of them were ever produced, and even less of an idea how one of them ended up on the used marketattached pic was the listing for it. the description says:> 1U server manufactured by T-Platforms.> Inside: an IBM Blade QS22 with 2 x IBM PowerXCell 8i 3.2 GHz processors, no top cover, plus an IBM IMM board and additional components from T-Platforms.> Specifications:> 2 x IBM PowerXCell 8i 3.2 GHz processors, 8 x 4 GB PC6400 P memory modules, an IBM IMM board, 2 Ethernet interfaces, and 2 bays for 2.5" hard drives.> No hard drives are included. The server passes the self-test (during the process it reports an issue with one memory module, but the test still completes successfully). The power supply and cooling system are in good working order.> I can bring it for testing in Kyiv. There is no possibility to test it in a rack on site.> Not sold for parts: only as a complete unit, as-is.
>>109920479Neat >>109921095Neat
>>109920364what is that anon? and how did you got it?
I just disposed of my asus 1005ha eee pc at the e-recyclers. Time to declutter although I will miss it once every few years
I have a Matrox m3D somewhere
i have an Intel i9 12900K with working hardware AVX512. You can access it bu disabling the cuck cores. One of the early bins before they disabled it on-die.
A Compaq laptop owned by an argentine business lady. Series 10xx something. Has IDE port HDD & 2 sticks of 800 MB of ram.
>>109923879FPGA accelerator network card, packs good punch for the price. You can find it on ebay, Alibaba Cloud AS02MC04
>>109920364this tv tuner card. i could insert the coax tv cable in it and watch tv. I think it can be done on windows media center but not sure. it still works but i wasnt able to find drivers. i found some obscure stuff but it didnt work. maybe one day
I had a bunch of daughterboards from a Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000 or 3000. I probably still have them, but lost track of which box-within-a-box has them during a move.The most exotic thing I have readily on hand is one of these: >>109920479
>>109924544>Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000 or 3000Meant to say "3000 or 4000".
Canon Ion RC-251, a still video camera. Uses small disks to store the pics.
a gizmondo probablyI dunno where it is, I wanted a psp but couldn't afford one
>>109924231Too bad it doesn't have any memory
Pentium pro
>>109925005Pentium
>>109921095>IBM QS22We had one of these in a rack in the lab when I was doing my PhD relating to medical imaging technology back in the early 2000s.
>>109924056>cuckno such thing
>>109920479Wow, you watched The Sopranos, too?
>>109920364Prototype of a game system. Less than 10 of this first batch were made.I suspect the CPU is an internal pre-production revision (from a major company, undocumented other than mentioning its existence), but haven't ID'd it yet.It's not particularly valuable, the production version isn't much different, but it was fun to have early access to unreleased hardware.Unusually, we were granted full ownership and the NDA was lifted, so it's truly mine to do whatever I want with.
>>109920364That looks like garbage.
>>109920436Oooh whats dis?
>>109920364My Hatsune miku 5080
>>109920479He was a piece of shit then and he is a piece of shit now and he was a good friend.
>>109920364nokia 2630
An OLPC XO-1. The OG Stallman laptop. Pictured, not mine. Each colored logo was unique(ish).
>>109921968i would kill for an SE/30. ive got a classic II but it doesnt boot anymore. i might have damaged the board trying to recap it. Probably the rarest thing I got are the G3 upgrades for my 6100 and 9600.
colorful gtx 560ti kudan
>>109920364I have an dell dimension 2300 with an early celeron d overclocked 21x it can hit nearly 5Ghz, and could broil a steak at the same time.
>>109924446windows media center and its DVR feature were fucking amazing back in the day. >recording an entire season to your hard driveI need to find the old family VAIO
Coolermaster nova touch tkl
>>109920364I own an intel DG1 that's not hardware locked and can work with ant pc.I also own an 8GB RTX T1000
>>109925731everybody watched the sopranos, anon
>>109925870being the original owner of a prototype console is more interesting than the console
>>109924446these are hardly exoticsad you just can't do the same today unbelievable how much we lost
>>109927754why can you do it today? last i checked where i live the standards haven't changed since i last used a pc tv tuner, though i haven't watched tv in a long time (basically no need once my internet connection got fast enough to download rips of anything i wanted to watch)
>>109926221>560 ti>3x 6 pinBut why
>>109927765>why can you do it today?channels encrypted on cablehardware barely exists, software even less so
>>109925870Hold up faggot, you don't even tell what it is?
probably this piece of shit
OG MtGox Yubikey >>109927780You can tell it's a girl from the blatant bait for attention
>>109927776>encrypted tvit's like they WANT us to just pirate shows instead
Earlier this year I found a businesses entire server rack (minus the rack) discarded on the side of the road. It was 2x macally arena 16 bay scsi jbods, 1x pelco dssrv nvr and I think 6x dell poweredge 2950s and 2x 2850s. Surprising despite likely just being hucked off the back of a truck judging by the damage, everything still worked. I got rid of the dells since they were effectively just extremely loud space heaters and used the nvr (just a q67+i7 2700k pc) and jbods for a while for truenas until I got some better hardware.None of this is particularly exotic (except probably the jbods), but finding a literal entire rack on the side of the road sure was a novelty.
I have an original AMD AM2901DC somewhere.
>>109920364A prototype card with PowerPC cpu and optic network. Found in trash on local meetup for spare parts. One chip is running immediatelly, the rest need non-existent drivers.
>>109928635Table photo
Tape
>>109927826I can see a use case for this but why would the lenses be arranged like that?
>>109927826>>109928993Biblically accurate camera
I have two of these
I have a BB Passport, kinda lame I guess.
>>109926107>Vivitarhavent heard that name in several decades
Tyan OpenPOWER TN71-BP012 SUN/Oracle Sparc T3-1 IBM RISCWatch
>>109927780We were publicly credited. I don't want to dox myself or get other developers pestered about it.
>>109920364tv with built in NES
>>109930225> Tyan OpenPOWER TN71-BP012that's super cool, wanna be friends? i wanted one too, but i got an S822L and an S822 instead.t. >>109921095
eMachine ER1402. Probably going to sell it off eventually.
Wtf is erotic hardware
>>109931148
>>109920364>What the most exotic piece of hardware you own?i've had picrel for about a decade now, it runs windows CE 5.0At the time the only way i managed to figure out how to "install" things (aka not actually install but it at least looks like it) was to modify the registry to run a batch script on boot that copied programs and folders over from an SD card since when you power the thing on it loads into RAM or somethingI'm sure there is a much better way to do this, but me a decade ago decided to go with that method and i havent touched it since
>>109931935it's normal for windows ce devices to load software into ram, ram is shared between work ram and storage, probably because back then external storage like sd cards were very slow.also typically you're supposed to copy stuff to/from them using activesync
>>109932082>probably because back then external storage like sd cards were very slow.well that and probably also to make external storage optional and able to swap cards without losing access to programs.as you can imagine, having ram for internal storage means you'll lose anything not saved elsewhere if your battery runs out completely, which is why the intended method of transferring files was syncing with a pc, so you always have a copy of everything on a pc as well. not to mention that made sense anyway back when portable devices had limited internet access, if you want to read/write emails on the go you would typically only have whatever was cached from a pc on the last sync, and newly written ones would be synced to the pc to actually send them at a later time
>>109931147Those specs look about as bad as I expected. But I guess it's probably 15+ years old now.
>>109920364I got an emachines Eone (not my picture)
>>109933365I bought it in 2011, good guess. I've zero use cases for it but hopeful I can sell it to some collectorfag since it's boxed with everything.
>>109920364A samsung watch 9
>>109931147good old nettops, that time they attempted to sell thin clients as normal consumer pc's since they were starting to become arguably powerful enough to run windows on their own.unless there's something special about that one they aren't exactly exotic. you can still get nettops in the form of minipc's today, only they're a lot more powerful as laptop hardware got small enough that minipc's are closer to laptop hardware than thin client hardware
>>109927767its a triple slot, triple fan, 1gb 560ti with an overclock buttonit has a slotted VRM expansion card on the back, the backplate is a 1/4" thick aluminum heatsinkoriginally it came with attachable extra heatsinks, the "air kit" it was packaged like a mall katana (literally, the same type of packaging) and included paints so you could paint it yourselfthough i painted mine with acrylic pensbut its still a 1gb 560ticolorful always makes some kind of cracked out absurdly overkill high end card, check the kudan 3090 and its quick disconnect hybrid cooling and hard travel suitcase it comes with for referencebut nobody really liked the 580/590 and everyone and their mother owned a 560ti, so they went the route of the more popular card and just put all their high end stuff on the more popular cardso they made the absolute most cracked out 560ti there could ever bewe will never have a product like this ever again
>>109936524this is hilariousi expect them to try something like this with a 5050 or something soon, as even 5060s become overpriced
