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  1. 08-30-2002 07:56 PM #1
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    What's the weirdest contraption connected to your computer?

    What's the weirdest, strangest contraption you have connected to your comp? This is probably my weirdest: , which I posted in http://www.sysopt.com/forum/showthre...hreadid=114587

    What is it? Well, it is a parallel to usb connector, designed to allow your parallel printer to connect through usb. It uses a 36-pin centronics adapter to connect to your printer. Unfortunately, my HP Laserjet 1100 uses a mini-centronics adapter, making it useless.

    Well, I didn't give up and bought up a number of adapters and hooked it up through a parallel cable. Works like a charm. Did all this last year.
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    Entrega 7-port USB hub with 4 USB ports, 2 serial ports and 1 parallel port - none of which are supported in WinXP because Xircon bought Entrega and Intel bought Xircom and Intel don't give a hoot.
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  3. 08-30-2002 10:07 PM #3
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    Nothing really put of the blue for me.
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    Compaq fingerprint reader, for secure logon
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    MaxTheRabbit- were do you get a fingerprint reader?

    I want.
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    Auto shutdown relay (shuts off monitor,speakers, scanner,and computer room overhead light). Built it myself.
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    My parallel port mp3 player docking station. Sorry, that's all the weirdness I've got here.
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  8. 08-31-2002 02:49 AM #8
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    To my Win2K box I have a Mac 3 port usb hub with parallel, and 2 geo ports, granted I can't get drivers for the Mac Parallel and Geo ports, but the usb works just fine.
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    What's the weirdest contraption connected to your computer?

    My girlfriends iMac

    That and some cardboard thats holding the CPU fan on. Oh yeah, we doin it ghetto style *facepalm*
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  10. 08-31-2002 09:39 AM #10
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    I almost forgot a strip of metal goes accrose the top of my case(inside the cover) which holds on a 80mm FAn to blow directly down on the CPU.
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  11. 08-31-2002 10:56 AM #11
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    I have the same thing as wallijonn plugged into my computer. It's pretty wierd.
    This is where my signature would go if I wasn't so lazy.
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    We all qualify for that being the weirdest.
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    I have a VHS VCR plugged in to my computer so I can record movies to my hard drive
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    Originally posted by gibsinep
    MaxTheRabbit- were do you get a fingerprint reader?

    I want.
    Well, a certain high level office had one on a trail basis and didn't like it . . .
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    I once saw a machine for the design and manufacturing industry where they could make a plastic model of a part to see how it would look. The machine squirted plastic in layers into water so it would cool quickly, kind of like a 3d printer.
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