DVD Rom drive is used a CDRom (watched one movie on it). Web Cam is never used....lays on a bookself collecting dust. I mostly use the scanner as a copier....
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DVD Rom drive is used a CDRom (watched one movie on it). Web Cam is never used....lays on a bookself collecting dust. I mostly use the scanner as a copier....
I picked up a tv video card, used, with a pc build. I thought "what a cool idea, tv picture on my computer!" Recabled my room and everything, hooked it up and realized it was to put my computer screen into my tv, not the other way arround. That got tossed into the junk pile real quick
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I'm just trying to keep from losing my mind!
I bought a tape 350MB tape drive which I kept having problems with so I only used it two or three times. I hate tape drives.
Then I got a 100MB ZIP external ZIP which I used regularly... for about a month.
Then I got a web-cam. That was great the four times I used it.
I also have a bunch of sotware that I used for a day or two before setting it aside and forgetting about it.
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Science is cool. Watch me science little animals to death: http://oberon.spaceports.com/~4science/
Zip Drive. What was that for again?
I have a scanner that's like 2 years old, never been out of the box. When I go to the store and find a good bargen I can't pass it up. I love BestBuy! I can spend hours in that store. Just like women can spend hours at the mall or whatever they do when they go shopping.
I also have one of those LS120 drives that's just taking up space in my box. It would be usful if everyone had one. I back all my stuff up to a networked Win2K Server with a 20gig tape backup. I runs every 6 hours.
Welp have fun you silly bastards!
https://forums.windrivers.com/
bigluke, i have some moldy money i'd give you, but you need to ship the radeon to me. email me [email protected] for an offer.
stuff i've bought and not useed a lot? suprisingly, all my toys get a lot of use, mostly because I don't have a ton of money to get new ones! sux to be 17. i was gonna get a internal zip a year ago, but lack of funds stopped me. this year I got a cd rw for 100 bucks and that's the toy i don't need that i've used the most. i'd like to get a pair of those 3d goggles but i know i'd never use those. and id rather spend the money on my hankering to upgrade my K6 233 with a super 7 board
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I was going to be a procrastinator, I just never got around to it.
Let's see...useless hardware at my house...got an ImageReader ISA (used to use it every once in a while, but then I got my new system with only 1 ISA slot and every time I put something in it, something goes kaput). Got some teeny tiny hard drives...my roommates and I keep our cases off and use them like floppy disks when our network is down. Parallel ZIP drive...got it for free, used it maybe twice. Epson 600 printer...used to use it ALL the time, but let it sit too long and the print heads went to hell. FLOPPY DISKS! Got hundreds of them (most are 720K...LOL). Plus the usual miscellaneous hardware...modems, 4MB video cards, old old OLD school no-name sound cards, 72 pin SIMMs (these could be worth a fortune, since no one seems to be selling them anymore.) Oh, and a 486 system I snagged to learn Assembler on that hasn't been turned on since I reformatted it with a clean version of DOS 6.22. (Actually, it's kind of useful...got some stuff stacked on top of it and using the stack to keep the middle of my crappy computer desk from sagging...LOL)
My DVD drive that I though I would definitly need. I have used as a DVD drive only once. At least it still works as a Standard CD Drive. I thought that Data DVDs were going to be the next step in software evolution.....
yep it's got to be the artec scanner that i bought two years ago. t's a scsi so it's good and quick but only gets used 2 maybe three times a year. paid $141 CDN for it. that works out to about what %30 American these days or what? : )
I have dozens of sound/video cards and a 250MB Colorado drive sitting in my closet. BTW, does anyone need a brand new 486 DX/66???
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I wish they had Doom for OS/400...that would be some treat!
Like archangel, I too lost a Visioneer scanner due to a Win2k Upgrade. It'll prescan, but page faults on a full scan. Didn't use it much before that though, so not out much there.
I've also got a couple of phone-line network cards that have never been opened. On the plus side, they also have normal twisted pair ethernet connections besides the phoneline connections so they could be used as NICs in a pinch. I only bought them because they were $26.91 for the pair at Sam's Club and there was a $30 mail-in rebate on them, so I ended up ahead on that one!
NIC Cards... Old SCSI Hard Drives...
Oh, I won't even get into the cables!
-Larry
Archangle,
If you are, by chance, talking about the 5300usb, then they finally relented to the user complaints and posted a Win2K driver.
I do know what you mean, though. This company was making me very angry...
It's bad to like a product so much, that you put up with crap like this. I bought a new 8600usb (which is Win2K ok)... https://forums.windrivers.com/
Couldn't resist the $99 deal.
-Larry
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I bought a scanner. I did use a lot, I'm a big photography buff. But then I updated to Windows 2000. According to them, they told me that Windows 2000 should not be used at home. The scanner I have is a "personal" scanner and not a business scanner. Visioneer will not develop drivers for 2000. So I am stuck with a scanner that I can't use. It does do a good as paper wieght though.
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My work has three scanners, and a external Zip Drive. Its Still in the box and has never been used.
Hey QSECOFR,
Send me the 486, my mom is not happy that I am taking our computer (PIII 450 with 256 MB Ram and 60 Gig HD 19' Monitor, and Cable Modem) She only wants to use it to get on the Internet. I need a cheap PC. with Windows and about 2 gigs of HD space
The 2 most useless items are FM tuner card and a TV tuner card. The TV card sucked and I have never installed the FM card. I can also add a colorado 250, a 1000 and a 3000 they were a bitch to do a restore with and too damn slow. Iguess I should throw in the wireless keyboard and mouse. seems the batteries are always dead or there is a bunch of stuff in front of the receiver and in closet #2 I have no idea. We have a closet that is hard to get into that we toss all kinds of useless stuff into. We should probably have a closet sale.
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If life is a bitch then what is death? I believe I will take the bitch!
Maybe a better question (easier) is what equipment do you use frequently!?
lets see.... got a LapTop, Palm Pilot, Scanner, DigiCam, etc... etc...
At least I did not have to pay for them, but yet get mad when my budget is maxed out at work!
For me, definitely the DVD-ROM. Fortunately, only cost me $50 Cdn (I only use it to burn disk to disk with my burner). I returned my Zip drive to the store before the return period was up. But the most useless thing I have ever bought was McAfee Office.
https://forums.windrivers.com/ Definitely my DVD Rom. A regular cd rom would have been good enough.
A Zip 100 external SCSI that's now collecting dust ever since I bought a CD-RW drive.
An old Conner external parallel port tape backup drive.
A Diamond Rio PMP300. Since my MP3 collection runs close to a 1000+ files, storing only 6 or 7 tracks at a time on it just doesn't cut it for me. I still use the earphones though.
https://forums.windrivers.com/ [IMG]
hmm well it's not really equipment, but i got damn near a small cooler chest full of old memmory modules, off of xt's and 286's, along with a swack of old cache chips, and tag chips, got some bios chips in there, oh, here i see some of the clock crystals i was looking for 3 years ago, and my my my, here is an intell 386 math co-processor, ...sure glad i kept this stuff...its almost antique!!
and add in cards...sheesh, why?? i dunno, think i am part pack rat...
https://forums.windrivers.com/ Without a doubt, the most worthless thing I have is my scanner. Then my DVD drive (never had a movie in it), and then my Palm Pilot.
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WildTech
MasterMind Computers ... Bring your PC to the Master!!
my firewall/nat server (the third pc)
it has all the goods to be re-sold, but i like it being there, chugging away, running SETI.
at least now it isnt wasting clock cycles
it is made of my left over parts
it consists of...
amd k6-3/400 320mb ram, 8.4gb and 4.3gb, 52x cd, 3com 509b and 905c nic
it has been running windows 2000 pro for about 8 months now without a re-boot...
https://forums.windrivers.com/
Well lets see, I have the typical zip 100 parallel port drive, I use it once in a while for service calls, Used it lots when I had a 1.2 gig drive
I have an IBM PS1 system that I stripped just sitting there, a 486 dx4 mother board loaded with ram ( I may make a "wall" computer with it )
A386 board with cpu and math chip, hey I even have an old 8 bit mother board with the 8088 on it
Odds and ends from other computers
And I even have a copy of Windows Millenuim edition promo upgrade ( Wen't back to WIn 98 since it runs better )
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Format c:( I'm givin er all she's got cap'in !!! )
i get so much crap from people that i know i'll probably never use. a few things that come to mind are a scanner i've used once, a 3com netbuilder router, and a RAS server. Right now they're just huge paperweights but i don't wanna get rid of them....oh well!
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"You dumb bastard...it's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!"
zip drive, got like tons of disks that no body wants, and a mini disc player
For those of you that have trouble with USB since you upgraded to Windows 2000, all I can say is: Dual Boot Option !
Or, do like me: Have four OSs in the first physical drive, each optimized for a specific kind of role ( Burning, Games, Browsing, Programming, Shareware testing) https://forums.windrivers.com/
I dusted off my Parallel ZIP this week so I could bring it over to my girlfriend's, since I can download a whole lot quicker there, since I am a cheapskate and have NetZero and have to click that darn "OK" button to keep from being disconnected....well, I have NEVER paid for WWW service so far....
My Saitek X36 joystick/throttle combo will getuse this week for Mechwarrior 4, collected dust for two years...that free steering wheel from Comp USA with the throttle operated by your right thumb and makes people think you are trying to impersonate the FONZ "AYYYY....my thumb is sore...!" Superdisk https://forums.windrivers.com/
(bootable, MY FOOT! only with a floppy! https://forums.windrivers.com/
Voodoo 3 3500 TV/FM input with the big-*SS jumper-cable from heck umbilical cord that you can't get rid of https://forums.windrivers.com/
IR presentation mouse, "Natural" keyboard
( broken-in-half design ) IDE cable stretcher https://forums.windrivers.com/
Useless hardware??? hmmm, well my Asus Geforce came with those useless 3D Glasses, I installed the detonator drivers and haven't used the things since i bought it. more useless hardware? the stack of 486's i have been collecting over time. Anybody need a good paper wieght? I Don't see how ya'll are bashing DVD-Roms though, i have my pc permenently wired to my vcr/tv in my bedroom/computer room. So i can watch a DVD on either a 19" monitor or a 21" tv. take your pick
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Moved from Wisconsin to California and took all stuff with me and had to come back to Wisconsin for Medical reasons and left all in storage. Couldn't use it here the first time but now that I can I don't have it. AAAARGH!
Scanner
Used it in the first 3 month, and after it was "building up dust".
My 4 year Microsoft Sidewinder Pro Joystick is to name one, haven't had much time to play games in the last 2 years. Regarding the issue of DVD drives, most people don't want to be watching a dvd movie on a 17" or any other size of monitor or don't want to go through the hassle of connecting wires on the back of the tv to the hardware dvd mpeg decoder card or a video card on the back of the computer. They just find it cheaper to buy a dvd player for their T.V.
If anyone has any useless hardware, let me know - write to alexneuman@ that mail service run by Microsoft that starts with hot and ends in mail and then a dot com. (Sheesh, what we have to do to avoid spam!) https://forums.windrivers.com/
I'd also be willing to pay shipping for some items. I'd like to open a "tech museum" with the parts that don't work and build Linux clusters with the parts that do - and then donate them (if possible) to rural schools here in central america (Mr. Quayle, if you're reading this, remember: it's not Idaho, Kentucky or Nebraska).
Thanks in advance.
https://forums.windrivers.com/ I would have to say my stupid zip250 usb drive I carry it to work and home everyday. But I never use it. Today was the first time I used it since I bought it. and it was to transfer a file I could have used my stupid floppy drive for if I wasnt lazy to look for a floppy. I have a home network with 4 computers 3 laptops....ever since I bought a buslink usb hard drive who needs a zip drive ? (yeah I pulled out that stupid 13gb drive and put in an 80gb maxtor hard drive !! 80gb's portable !!)
@tomoverride
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981
Has to be that stupid web cam and tv card dont know why i bought it i used i once or twice in some chat rooms and got board with it perhaps we should have a 10 things to to with your spare isa slots
I have hard drives hanging around, a couple of mobo's plus an adaptec LVD card, the odd isa card. I'm sure to use them some day
Let's see first would have to be me scanner I have used it a total of 2 times in two years, Next would have to be my DVD I still have never used it. Maybe this webcam Hell it's still in the box. https://forums.windrivers.com/
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If all else fails read the directions !
I brought a scanner a year ago and its only done maybe 12 scans, all it is a paper weight, my friend is the same his is a gaint paper weight too. Dont bag the DVD's I have one and true ive only used it 6-12 times but its still a excellent purchase. My internal Zip was used heaps but not anymore. Since I got the burner.
Well, I have a 1.6/3.2 Seagate tape drive I never use, but then again, it was free. I have a second 40x CD-ROM, which I actually do use half the time. I rarely use my Mustek 600 III EP Plus scanner. And all you people saying that Palms (Pilots included) are useless, I just got one, and every day for the past week, I have used it. But then again, I am 16, so that is sort of expected. (and I don't want any flames for my age either) https://forums.windrivers.com/
Got a Compaq Aero Handheld about 2 months back, 2160, color, 24mb ram, WIN CE etc.... hardly use it, as even my phone has a calendar that I use more often. My scanner has been used about 12 times in a year, and still havn't installed my printer drivers yet. (1 year!)
Compaq was really a waste of time... oh well
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A General Protection Error has occured - Time to go home...
Payed 450 for a scanner that never gets used, unless I have to fax something, which is very rare. A zip 100 and 250 that just collect dust.
AAA!! https://forums.windrivers.com/ CueCats!! EEEEEVIL!!!Quote:
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add that to the heap with the CueCats.
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