Not rare but unusual thread.

[pqhf5kd]

Post your unusual things you have.

Gravis Mac Gamepad.

Ment to be ADB but has a serial? type connector. Must be in the wrong box but looks the same as the picture.

 

[Bunsen]

Powerlink Presentor - a Duo microdock with composite (TV) video out

An IR wireless ADB keyboard with an integrated pointing device.

Set of 3 upgrades for the original tray load G3 iMac that give serial, ADB and video output

 

[Christopher]

feetie pj's

and a construction road horse blinky light.

 

[Charlieman]

Rarity is subjective. If you live in silicon valley, a Mac 128K is not rare. But everywhere else is different. A few favourites:

Dove MacSnap RAM/SCSI upgrade for the 128K/512K -- there were loads of RAM/SCSI upgrade makers, but this was one of the best.

MacCharlie box, of course. Weird and brilliant, but possibly rare.

Orange PC cards. Great fun to play with because you have to refresh both your old Mac and old DOS skills. Note: I'm looking for the Windows 95/98 and NT driver packages for the Pentium PC cards.

Mac Recorder -- sound input for 68K Macs. Interesting to use for about five minutes unless you have a project that requires it.

Accelerators that use the IIci cache slot (or via an adapter). Thank you to DayStar and others for delivering some storming fast 68K Macs.

 

[Bunsen]

MacRecorder - the serial port sound recorder? I found one of them at the local tip shop.

 

[MacMan]

None of my things are incredibly rare but they are not commonplace either:-

2 x Apple remotes for TV/video cards in 6xx, 6xxx and 5xxx machines

Dayna etherprint adaptor - I use this to hook up my LocalTalk LaserWriter Select to my home network

ALPS Glidepoint ADB trackpad

Plusware numeric ADB PowerBook keypad

 

[coius]

68-pin CD-RW Drive (8x4x20). Made by Yamaha. First one I have ever seen :-/

EDIT: oh, and I have an Apple IIgs SCSI Card

 

[shred]

The old Kingston(?) ADB trackballs for the Mac

That funny scanner add-on for the ImageWriter - the "scanner" dropped in in place of the printer ribbon and scanned the page (badly) in bands. I think it was called "Thunder Scan" or something like that. Quite ingenious and popular in the day, but I don't think there would be many left now.

 

[Maconthemove]

Macs-a-Million upgrade board for 128/512. Comes with 1 mb, but you can put up to 4 mb on it.

 

[luddite]

I have a Brainstorm 16MHz accelerator for the Mac Plus which I haven't installed since I doubt my soldering skills are up to the task.

I also have a NewerTech MicroDock, which seems to be fairly rare, though not terribly interesting.

 

[equill]

... A few favourites:
Dove MacSnap RAM/SCSI upgrade for the 128K/512K -- there were loads of RAM/SCSI upgrade makers, but this was one of the best.

Orange PC cards. Great fun to play with because you have to refresh both your old Mac and old DOS skills. Note: I'm looking for the Windows 95/98 and NT driver packages for the Pentium PC cards.

Mac Recorder -- sound input for 68K Macs. Interesting to use for about five minutes unless you have a project that requires it.

Accelerators that use the IIci cache slot (or via an adapter). Thank you to DayStar and others for delivering some storming fast 68K Macs.

Snap!

Separate Dove 2MB MacSnap and SCSI kits

Orange, Apple and Radius/Reply DOS compatibilty cards

Farallon MacRecorder 2 and SoundEdit Pro Sound Systems (same gear; different owners)

Multiple DayStar PowerCache cards. My IIci/IIcx Macs gallop!

Divers EN/SC and LT/EN bridges

Classic II PDS FPU card

Switchable serial- and ADB/video-sharing boxes

Radius Rocket 68040/33MHz cards

and other bits that don't readily spring to mind.

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[macclassic]

I still have a Paperport scanner and a QuickTake camera, from another time.

 

[pqhf5kd]

Powerlink Presentor - a Duo microdock with composite (TV) video outAn IR wireless ADB keyboard with an integrated pointing device.

Set of 3 upgrades for the original tray load G3 iMac that give serial, ADB and video output

Can you tell us some more about the G3 cards, thanks.

 

[Aoresteen]

MacEnhancer from Microsoft. Adds a paralle port & two serial ports through one of the Mac's serial ports.

Inside Macintosh, PHONEBOOK edition

Mac Rescue 6 MB & SCSI upgrade board for 128 & 512K Macs.

Through The Looking Glass original disk and box

MacBasic

Jasmine Direct Drive 20 (20mb hard drive; now holds a 2 gig SCSI!)

Charlieman, the MacCharlie is rare! I've been looking for one for years. Hang on to it!

 

[luddite]

Powerlink Presentor - a Duo microdock with composite (TV) video out

Suddenly I've got something else to add to my "must-have-but-don't-really-need" list.

 

[Quadraman]

My 37" Mitsubishi CRT. I haven't found much reference to it anywhere.

 

[conceitedjerk]

A kilometre (give or take) of RJ45 network cables. In 5ft lengths.

A similar amount of phone cables for use with the phonenet adapters I'm sure I still have here somewhere.

A slot-loading 50-pin SCSI DVDROM drive that I put into an external case and used with my Powerbook 5300 (and later on with my Sparcstations 10, 20, and IPX).

An Orange Micro Firewire Cardbus card that actually included the drivers.

An original System 7 Japanese Language Support CD.

 

[LCGuy]

Well, considering that I live in rural Queensland, EVERYTHING I have is rare!

But aaanyway....

- Greyscale Connectix QuickCam (with box and everything)

- PowerCD

- "Getting Started With Apple Computers" VHS tape for the Performas

- "Echo II" speech synth card for Apple IIs

- working AppleVision 1710AV (not sure for how long though )

- Teac 6x24 SCSI CD-R

- External SCSI HDD case that is done to look like a Q8xx/PM8x00, though much smaller, can take two 3.5" drives, made by some long-gone company called "MacPower"

- Apple Presentation System

 

[Scott Baret]

Prototype Mac SE

Boxed Lisa 2

Shrinkwrapped PaperPort

Tons of software...ask for details...a highlight is an original Shufflepuck Cafe disk, they seem very rare out there.