do you own anything unusual in your home??

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My first usable computer was a Dragon 32 - the UK equivalent to the CoCo. I've still got a couple somewhere...

My TRS80 works just fine too. I have a slew of programs I wrote for it. They are mostly animation programs.

Do you remember the year you got your Dragon 32? I got my first TRS80 in 1982 and still have the receipt for it even.

Well we have a collection of real animal skulls and a few fake human skulls, also lots of pirate related stuff.

my sister is pretty unusual as well.

I used to have a color computer 2, which was basically a keyboard you hooked up to a tv.

Sorry, I can't remember exactly when I got it. My long term memory isn't that good. I bought the first one second hand and wore out the keyboard. The second one suffered the same fate. After that I grafted on a keyboard from a terminal which was much better quality. It involved some internal surgery and I had to write a new keyboard 'driver' to run it. The driver and a bunch of other useful utilities were kept on a home-made 16K non-volatile ram pack made out of a modified rom cartridge. The pack retained it's memory with the power turned off so I didn't need to load those programs every time at startup. Towards the end my main Dragon was a bit of a Frankenstein's monster with all sorts of bits grafted on, including a mouse. It even had a scanner, long before most people had even heard of scanners. It was only black and white but it did work.

The only animation I ever did with it was a face that moved it's mouth when it received sounds from a microphone on the tape deck input, for a school project. As you can probably tell I was more into controlling things with the computer than graphics.

IDK about owning anything unusual. Perhaps this is a bit unusual...

My grandmother owned this statue. After my grandfather died, I found it and took it home with me.

Chickens. We have 3 females (did have 4 but 1 died, unknown cause, we think she was egg bound) and 4 chicks at the moment that we won't know the gender of until they're older and either cluck around laying eggs or shout out C*CKADOODLEDOOOOO! xD

I also have a fez, because I'm a Doctor Who fan.

Hmm...

• a lot of books(like 7 roof-tall over stacked bookshelves)
• a box full of old electronic chips and wires
• a scanner that's so old I don't know where it came from or if it works
• I have a Super Nintendo(and an N64)
• about a trillion random cords
• me

I can't think of anything else

A pair of three foot tall wood paneled audio speakers meant for a movie theater.

A small log uniquely shaped because it had been chewed by a beaver. A childhood souvenir I retrieved from an actual beaver dam by the road in colorado.

A pair of trilobite fossils I bought in cape cod (they look like fist sized wood lice made of stone).

A little slip case of six Dr. Demento LP's signed by Dr.Demento.

can you tell me what brand they are?

A bottle of aftershave from the 80's. It has a thermometer on it.

like a police scanner radio? or a scanner/fax for your computer?

depends what you mean by unusual. Theres plenty of aeronautical navigation charts and medical instruments around my parents house.

I think i have a lot of unusual things in my room :o But then again i have no idea what a normal room should be like, its my room so yeah xD

I'd say my brass mini ET statue is quite unusual. I found it in an antique shop in the US more than 10 years ago. I don't know how it could have possibly been antique but I had to have it all the same.