Thoughts 13 Apr 2008 11:59 am
House Cleaning
I haven’t turned my game machine on in what feels like forever.
I bought a power supply to replace the one that failed. I as soon as I got home I unboxed it and set it on top of the case, where it sits to this day.
Games require a great deal of time and concentration. I find I’m lacking both.
Instead of putting this beast back together, I have been house cleaning.
From my office alone I have filled two large garbage bags with shredded paper. I find that I never throw any receipt, bill or statement away.
I discovered paperwork from a machine shop I owned back in ‘80 something.
I have old car registration and insurance for almost every vehicle I’ve ever owned.
I have power and water bills from places I haven’t even seen in years.
And on and on.
I found a receipt for a 286 with a 10meg hd, 2 5 1/4 floppies, and 1 meg of ram. We won’t discuss what I paid for it.
Under a drawer full of paper I found a couple of cpus, an Intel 386 and an AMD 486 DX4 100.
I found a single speed (yes that’s 1x) cd burner with controller card.
I found 2 9gig scsi drives I used to run in raid under Windows NT and a failed Adaptec card to go with them.
I found 2 200meg Western Digital hds
I found half a dozen cases sitting in the corner of a closet. - I kept one just to see if I can mod the ps and m/b to make the big red switch work.
If you’re a computer geek, take a look around. I’m sure you’ll find an amazing amount of obsolete and broken equipment.
You need to ask yourself, just how many old IDE ribbons you need?
What do you do with a 10 or 20 meg mfm or rll hd?
Or how about an old xt case?
My house cleaning has resulted in more room in my office, which results in more places to store all the “good junk” that I might need or fix some day.