An 8bit processor off ebay ... :/

It was a Muse badge for 50p. Just remembered that.

I have a theory that there is a bald man on every Muse album cover. O_o

Original dBase III Plus manual and disk set ...

In order:
2006: An Introduction to Electronic Computers, 1965, Gordon B. Davis (you can easily tell by the year what this book is basically like, anyway, I got it for my birthday)
February (actual purchase), March (shipment) 2008: Microsoft Windows 95 Codenamed Chicago Build 490 with the Microsoft Office for Windows 95 Pre-Release, two CD-ROM set, originally purchased on eBay and released here at Release-a-fortnight in early April 2008.
April 23rd, 2008: One of the Microsoft OS/2 1.x programming references from the entire library, Visual Basic 3.0 complete set, a series of hard disk heads, and a Digital Equipment Corporation 8 Inch floppy disk copyrighted 1975)
May 2009: IBM DOS 5.0 manual, Microsoft Windows 95 Resource Kit manual
November 2009????: Cairo Build 1314 (could also be 1304) Workstation, not leaked as far as I know, came with manuals, paperwork, original bootable CD-ROM, original Setup disks, and custom emergancy recovery disk, purchased on eBay

There's a lot more on my list, but my post would have been too long if I listed it all here, so I just listed the most special items that I purchased, received, or otherwise aquired.

I wish that shipping from US to Malaysia wasn't too expensive, since VB3.0 complete set weight cost me quite alot.

i bought grim fandango pc and wild arms for 5€.

One could have, eg Window 3.51 + resource kit here. Its mainly used for running vintage dos in vms. It comes with a lot of manuals, but ye still need your trusty 3.1 manual to see how to run apps like notepad and paintbrush (yes, they have their own chapters...)

The latest is a UNICOMP version of the ibm model m keyboard, in UK layout, so i can use the UKINT keyboard layout.

Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on 3.5" floppies in 2006.

2 things:

1. AMI Pro 1.0 on a 5 1/4" floppy disk at a book sale or
2. 2 Gb. (4x 512 Mb.) DDR 400 PC3200 ECC RAM.

Buying 10 packets of floppy disks for my DOS machine at an town that is 400km away from my house in 2010 and the cashier not knowing the price. I was charged $50 but they are the best brand ever.(EMTEC BASF)

I preordered Windows 7 with a gift card i got from my birthday, made an interesting conversation with the grandparents...

It was useless Nettop. LOL

an RFID reader, 13,25Mhz, High Frequency. Cost a pretty penny too. about $300CAD. though it's been nice to try to learn about RFID

Probably an Hard Drive on 250 GB, or an USB Flash Drive on 8 GB... Or probably a mini digital photo album-thingie (around 5x5x2 cms

The owners manuals for an IBM PC from 1893

That's an old IBM PC õ_ô

my geek purchase would have to be sins of a solar empire. Oh and no, i do NOT like that game. Waste of $30. Its a cheap game. DONT BUY IT. Even Though, I seen it 1 time at goodwill for $4.99 LOL. BARGAN BIN!!!

Either a legit Copy of Mac OS X Tiger for PPC from the Apple store, or parts to build a computer...

A still-shrinkwrapped copy of OS/2 Warp 3 (Not Connect) for $20 on eBay. It's not shrinkwrapped anymore, as I run it on my Toshiba Satellite 305!

3 MSDN Libraries (Old Editions) for only 2.97$, but the shipping cost 12.48$.
Just received them today .

All for $10 (Pays to know the right people),

Dell SE198WFPv monitor
2 KVM Switches; 1x 4 port IoGear and 1x Belkin
3 Cat 5e cross over cables
5 Cat 6 network cables
Belkin Wireless N USB adapter
and a couple of PS/2 to USB adapters for keyboards.

If your wondering, they came from a mac person who owns a 27" iMac.

I haven't really decided what my geekiest purchase was. Geekiest thing I got for free? Windows NT 3.51 Step-up (Upgrade) Edition

Probably...Veho USB microscop x400 zoom or free thing, probably Windows Server 2003 legit, got it from my tutor when doing networking course at college a few years back.

My old XeDK or when i had to ask my school receptionish to verify my dreamspark account.

Now 3 DDS Tapes for just 7$ two are 40/80GB DDS4 and one is 4/8GB