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Izo said:

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Darth Vader’s lightsaber, used in Star Wars movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, sells for nearly $5m

Used in the famous ‘I am your father’ scene, the on-screen prop was originally expected to sell for a fraction of the price

www.theguardian.com

Which one of you nerds bought it?

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Only the replica

lurkingdirk said:

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I had a NEXTEL when they were still a thing, $5 for a ringtone, about that much for a wallpaper. Reading on a forum thread one day about how to hack them. You needed a special cable and a list of software. I knew nothing about it but that's never stopped me before! Bought the cable, - had to install apache server, make the phone think your PC was the server , had to be on the C drive ( this was HDD days and I kept Windows isolated on a C partition and everything else on another physical drive. Spent most of the day getting it to work - mostly because I didn't know what I was doing and you couldn't just ---google it. Finally get it to work.
I'm supposed to meet my brother to see a movie but I'm trying to get him to come to my house first so I could show him. He wouldn't so I met him at the place and showed him what I'd done to my phone. He looked at me like I just discovered alien life. Then wanted me to do his phone.

Also - man NEXTEL's sucked. I cannot tell you how many I went through smashing them because the call would not stay connected. Work wanted them for the Push to talk which was cool - could talk to the office in Charlotte NC from my office in Myrtle Beach SC but as a phone they were shit.

Pic very much related.