So I thought i'd ask this for fun. What do you consider the geekiest thing you've ever purchased, computing or not?

I would consider my geekiest purchase to date to be my Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber and my Jedi Robe, which I am currently wearing as I type this So what about you? And be honest! We're all friends here!

When I bought an iPhone for $10. No, it's not a typo.

Can you sell it to me for $20 then? My geekiest purchase are all kind of old MS programming suites. I got loads of them at home. Considering some kind of museum in the future.

A book on Windows 2000 Active Directory. The school library gave it to me for free. It's a bit big and boring, but I do know a bit more about AD now.

Hmmm......
Visual Studio 2008

Just bought an espresso machine

I think I've bought at least 3 releases of Jaws, one of them I bought just because it was a rather old VHS from when it was still rated PG

Umm... lets see, It would either be Chicago 484 off ebay or that time i went to a swap meet to get a xeon mother board while my mates where all out shoe shopping at Nike

A Silicon Graphics/Nintendo IMPACT promo pack including 2 T-shirts and a promotional video. Probably my most expensive geeky purchase.

Borland Pascal 7 documentation (13 books) from 1992 just because it was the first IDE I ever used.

And why espresso machine a geeky purchase?

books for my school
which i ever hardly read at all
but kapitalistic [censored] always force it upon students

Either Windows NT 4.0 a year ago or Nokia N900 a week ago.

Shrinkwrapped copy of Windows NT 4.0 Workstation.

Updating, now my geekiest purchase ever (for now) is the Microsoft Employee Manuals & Documents from 90s. Me want me Windows Phone 7!

Macintosh Portable for $20 last year. Great condition with full manuals, case, and surprisingly, battery still holds a charge. Had to supply my own power cord and OS though. I later realized that I just purchased something likely worth a few hundred dollars on eBay.

...It sat in the attic for 18 years since it's owner upgraded to a PowerBook 100 to save his back...

Also bought a "Legally Blonde" (Orange) style iBook G3 the day after, not in as good condition. (Someone upgraded it to Panther)

Well, considering buying some Muse albums, I am a Muse geek

Cuz geeks drink a lot of coffee, I guess

a $20 copy of OS/2 2.0

An (artificial, of course) white wolf tail for my fursona

Either my Xbox 360 XeDK, or my PSX Debugging Station.

Would you mind sharing scans of that, if not here then in the VIP forum?

the large amount of moneys I spent obtaining the PDC 03 DVD1 through this forum. Crazy, but I just *had* to have it

If you mean computer "geek(y)" then it's probably a few Xeon processors.
Otherwise, it'd be the 250 packs of Jelly Belly Jelly Beans I ordered

I will, depending on my free times. Right now I'm quite busy and waiting for the MSDN binder (with discs obviously) to get shipped today.



Lucky you. Even though my crazy level is as high as you, I didn't have money to spend on it.