It's all about the ol' school modem, which you had to physically plug the phone into.
Another thing that I wish I had was a minidisc drive, it's only on japanese vaio's I think.
How about stereo equipment controlled by rs-232.
Or how about the robotic arm I've been using.
Of course the coolest ever was a guy who used a gps card, compass, and accelerometer with his laptop to figure out the direction it was facing and it's position, he wrote a program to show the stars and landscape features visible in the direction the laptop was facing.
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