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Freeway super socket 7 mobo
P5a 1.04
3 tyan s1564d motherboards
Amd k6-3+ 550
Cyrix 400gp
Gigabyte Iram
Fic 503+
Ga-5aa

I probably have more stuff but it doesn’t come to mind, I have like 100 different socket 5/7 cpus. Oddly that’s not even 1/3 of how many there are 🤣

Backfire_67 wrote on 2022-01-22, 08:45:

3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 Rev.3700

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Just wondering, this is hardware, but it's a bit PC adjacent. Original 1st generation Creative Nomads..
https://www.anandtech.com/show/297/3
How rare are they? Can't find any eBay listings.

Have one with parallel port cradle, was working last time I had it out.

I would say that these days, the most rare I own. Is the ATX64 board that I soldered/build from scratch. Not many in the world.

2x 512mb Quantum3d AAlchemy 8264 (separate bricks with their own power supply)

probably my Atari Falcon 030

The big Momma of the ST series...

cue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4

You'd think of these as being equivalent* all round to the Amiga 1200, but while that sold into the millions the Falcon only got into 10s of thousands I think.

BitWrangler wrote on 2022-01-27, 20:16:

The big Momma of the ST series...

cue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4

You'd think of these as being equivalent* all round to the Amiga 1200, but while that sold into the millions the Falcon only got into 10s of thousands I think.

Reason being that Atari discontinued it and because it was kind of too late to the game. At that time, people began to migrate heavy towards IBM and clones.

DaveJustDave wrote on 2022-01-27, 19:35:

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probably my Atari Falcon 030

Nice machine.... Really nice.

A few items..

Components:
- Various Sound Cards (Gravis Ultrasound rev 3.4 and the PnP rev 1.0, SB Pro, SB Pro 2, SB AWE32 CT3999, SB AWE64 CT4520)
- Various Nvidia Cards (Diamond Edge 3D 2120 (Nvidia NV1), GeForce256 SDR and DDR, Ti500, Ti4600, FX5950 Ultra)
- Various Voodoo Cards (Voodoo II SLI 12MB, Voodoo 3 3000 PCI and AGP, Voodoo 5 5500 AGP)
- Diamond Stealth 24VLB, ATI Mach64 VLB
- ATI Mach64 ISA
- Upgradware Slot-T adapters
- SMC LCS-6641 Floppy/IDE 16-bit ISA Cache Controller
- Shuttle HOT-613 Dual Pentium Pro

Desktop Computers:
- Amiga 500, 2000, 4000/040
- Swan XT Turbo 8088-10MHz
- Dash OPS-1000 486 with built-in 5" Amber CRT
- Iwill ZMAX-DP Dual Opteron Shuttle
- Falcon Northwest Fragbox
- Sony Vaio PCV-MXS20 w/ Minidisk Drive
- 2x Compaq Alpha DS10

Handhelds / Laptops:
- Digital (DEC) HiNote Ultra CT475
- Sony Clie UX50
- Sony Picturebook PCG-C1VPK
- Sony Vaio VGN-UX280P
- Toshiba Libretto 110CT

Monitors:
- Bridgeview VS-10S 10" SVGA CRT
- Commodore "Amiga" 1080 CRT
- Commodore 1084S-D2 CRT
- Commodore 1902A CRT
- Samsung SamTRON SC-431E EGA CRT

Probably missed some stuff. I have too much crap.

But if I had to pick the one that was hardest to find and I rarely if ever see any for sale, it would be the Iwill ZMAX or the Vaio MX. Ironically, both are more modern than I normally collect.

.. probably my Alaris / NexGen Nx586-90 desktop, I've seen the Nexgen mainboards and processors in the wild, but this is the first complete example of a desktop PC in a case that was manufactured by Alaris I've come across. In addition to the Alaris VLB mainboard it came with a matching Alaris"Skyeagle" VLB video card.

An Appian Rendition II/XE, I've found very little resources for it online so I figure it must be at least a little rare right? Has the Renaissance RVGA daughter board and memory upgrade too

Just noticed I have a super rare USB floppy drive, it's one of only 10 with serial numbers between 45800 and 45810 😉

Just kidding, it's more making fun of the car guys when it starts with, it's one of only 1832 in Red... and it gets down to It's one of 3 in red with the taupe upholstery, 357 engine, 3.84 positrack rear end, factory 8 track AND a passenger rear cigar lighter.

Ah, interesting thread 😀

For me this would be (in no particular order):

GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
Quantum3D Obsidian2 200SBi
Athlon 64 FX-51
ES Opteron 83xx (RB-C0 stepping)

Your FX-51 made me wonder if my FX-60 might be considered rare. There’s nothing on ebay right now so maybe it is 🤔

Athlon 64 FX-57 is where it's at.

I see your FX-57 and raise you an Opteron 190 or *gasp an Opty 156 😀

Disclaimer: I own neither

Not hardware, but retro: a complete boxed copy of WordPerfect 5.1 for UNIX (SPARC) on QIC tape. I've never seen another copy either in person, on Ebay, or on any abandonware site.

Now that the opportunity occurs to think about it, I guess I would have suspected that some commercial flavors of UNIX came on official distribution tapes, but I never actually heard of mass market application software getting an official digital tape copy. I wonder if say a university ordered 200 copies, whether they would have got 200 tapes or just 200 licenses and just that one install package to the admin?

I think I have a complete Danmere Backer (backup to VHS tape solution) somewhere . I also remembered I have a Xircom PE3 .

Not sure how rare either of these is .