I modded an IBM PC to be the PSU, Hard drive and Floppy for my AMIGA.
It looked like this render.
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These things have sky rocketed in price due to demand which isnât just from collectors, they are still being used to this day in industry.
Poor bastards having to drag legacy hardware aroundâŚarchitecture/software dependency resulting in decades long obligations and care. I had my share of IBM AS/400 at work. Can cripple a lot of IT budget. But at least the Tezro/Indy/O2 are pretty to look at 
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Oh God that brings me back
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/als-technological-findings/65242/17?u=big_al_tech
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I used to love the SGI and SUN machines. (Some days This forum is buggier than a bug house.)
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Yeah man. Back in the Beige Land Days these machines were mean!
I did too. Until I had to work on one.
I was at Univ for Engineering. Mostly I wanted to learn 3D CAD.
At that time we used PTC Corp Pro/Engineer which morphed into Creo and again into OnShape.
The problem was the school was cheap. Most people used basic Dellâs, but us engineers got to use Sun Unix workstations. Too bad they were so old and slow, they were obsolete. I think it was a 1998 -100MHz CPU in 2006.
Many of us bought student license copies of Pro/E = $200 for a $3,000 program. I split the $200 with a friend and we shared our license. Then we ran it on our home PCâs which were 100 times faster. Most guys just pirated SolidWorks.
My gamertag at the time was Kamikaze. This was my college PC.
My friend gave me a mug that said Kamikaze in Kanji characters (lower left).
He got it from his GF because Kamikaze means âDivine Windâ in Japanese.
She was referring to his constant farting.
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Most places are cheap and outdated but back when the Purple/Blue SGI/SUN machines were new they were slick. That said this is a looks game so outdated only matters in style. 
Or as I listed the all Blue or the Blue and Red BeBoxen whoo lawdy!
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I never really liked the âgamerâ blue and black or red and black aesthetic back in the day, so the EVGA GTX 700 series really stood out to me. Those might still be the best looking GPUs design-wise Iâve seen so far.
I also really like the Nvidia FE designs starting with the RTX 3000 series (sans 12V HPWR connector).
I think those will be iconic in 10+ years.
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I love that EVGA kept that cleaner [2 slot] design aesthetic, for soo long
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Man I almost forgot! The ORIGINAL Acer Predator case http://hardzone.es/app/uploads/2009/03/predator-case4.jpg Half Life 2 + Sport Bike == All Smexy.
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Theyâre asking $200USD for this? The amount of time it took me to teach my mom how to use it as a hand-me-down wasnât worth $200USD.
Iâve got a few unusual items in my office.
I guess the antiquated CrossFire, but in QuadFire.
Also the âReaperâ DIMM modules from OCZ.
OCZ also made Intel, Nvidia and AMD exclusive DIMMs, not that it mattered in the slightest.
As pointed out by @GoldenAngel1997 when Nvidia started making power hungry GPUâs that people wanted in SLi but no single PSU could handle them, youâd get a 5.25" bay add in PSU just for the 2nd GPU. This was new, guy cleared out his storage unit, along with 2 NIB GTX 580âs. I got this for like $50.
OCZ tried some unusual products, like the Nural Interface Adapter or whatever. Using facial movements (pressure sensors on headgear) to control your mouse. I got this 2nd hand dirt cheap.
AMD was shortly in the SSD and DDR3 market. Yes, the one SSD is NIB and unopened. I have a few items around my office like this.
I rarely see these around, but I got this legit for $1 and $9 shipping. These were faster than SSDâs, but had to use a PCIe adapter and what looks like a mini sas style cable.
Iâm just going to stop posting images, else Iâll be here for a bit.
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This post brings back memories. I had 7900GX2 back in the day that I kinda wish I still had. Also I was a sucker for those Mac G5 cases.
Isnât this model the crappy Itanium version?
Also 3DFX voodoo boxes:
Those were for the first party 3DFX cards. Donât believe the third party vendors that used the chipset had such flamboyant boxes.
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My Voodoo2 box was this one:
Yeah I couldnât afford the 12MB VRAM card back then. I later used two of them to be able to run 1024x768 resolution.
And the box didnât lie. It was both magic and speed and the slogan was actually an understatement. It was the true origin of the word gamechanging.
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That actually aged very well. It was ridiculous when it came out, and now itâs kind of cool.
I think this beats it though:
But thereâs probably no point in trying to rank these, Apple made a lot of cool stuff. Their 20 year old laptops still look sexy as hell.
There were no 3rd party vendors for voodoo3 and later, which was part of their downfall. They wanted to make everything themselves.
I finally got this one at the end of last year, the 12MB version. This is the box I remember gawking at on store selves and magazines at the time, so definitely the most iconic voodoo 2 box for me as well.
The IBM Thinkpad, or Thinkpads in general. Image is from wikipedia.
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