What obscure electronic item do you collect / obsess with?

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I figured I couldn't possibly be the only person on here with a weird fixation on old computer accessories...

One of my favorite items is older external CD-RW drives, my favorite kind being the Iomega Predator drives, and the one I currently use now which is an old Yamaha CRW-F1UX. I also have 10 (last time I counted) full spindles of the good old CD-Rs with the blue coating on the bottom.

I also have a lot of old SCSI gear laying around.
 
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I didn't realize that this qualified as a fixation or hobby. I just thought I was too lazy to throw away my old computer stuff. :)

If they ever bring back Windows 3.11 with 128 megs of RAM on those computers from the 90s, I'll have the mouse and cables all set to go.
 
Not terribly obscure, but I enjoy them and I have another 2-3 in progress.

2 out of the 3 I have currently. One hand built, the other a kit. I also have a VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display) in the works that will look a lot like the top clock....then an IN17 clock. (IN17's are about 1/4 the size of the IN12's in the lower of these two clocks.)

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thunderfog said:
Pocket AM/FM radios. Can't explain it.
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I have a lot of those too, it didn't even cross my mind when I made this post. I have several old AM-only transistor radios and an assortment of Walkmans.

JustinH said:
Samsung lightscribe for your CD-RW obsession. I don't know if you can get the blanks anymore, but that was a neat technology long dead.
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I used to love making custom labels with LightScribe, I had an HP desktop that came factory with a LightScribe drive. Most if not all of those discs have long since faded and are unreadable now though.

Come to think of it - my Yamaha CRW-F1UX has the old-school "Disc T@2" technology which burns labels onto the DATA SIDE of the disc! I've yet to find the software to make it work though...
 
JustinH said:
Samsung lightscribe for your CD-RW obsession. I don't know if you can get the blanks anymore, but that was a neat technology long dead.
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I actually burned two of those CDs yesterday. Blanks are available on eBay, but the price for them is rising.
 
Growing up I was obsessed with loudspeakers. I would grab every one I could get my hands on. I loved taking the speakers out of broken sound equipment. The large pa horns were the ones I was most obsessed with. There was just something so special about them.
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I still have a bunch of Novell Netware gear. Not that I collect it, just can't make myself throw it away. Still got a pile of old C-64 disks.
 
Flash media (SSD's, flash drives, SD cards, etc). Fun to torture where I've ended up killing a few.
 
I used to have a collection of battery powered radios. Over the years I got rid of them. Then years back when hurricane Sandy hit, I didn't have one. No power, no radio except for what was in my car. So if we wanted to know what was going on in the outside world, we had to either go for a ride, or sit in the car with the radio on. Keeping the cell phone charged was a waste of time ,because nobody had service. Felt like one of those movies where the people were stranded without any outside contact.,,,
 
I remember as a kid my parents giving me their electronics they had when they were kids (circa 1950s). A vacuum tube console monaural record player hi-fi set (maybe a Magnavox? I remember it having four huge speakers along the front of it, and a giant gold metal tonearm, and it had volume, bass, and treble knobs on the turntable deck part of it ), an Aiwa transistor radio, and a Juliette portable reel to reel tape deck.

I loved those!!
 
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