Just in case...
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I'm a hoarder as well, at least computer wise. I still have every machine that I have ever owned over the last 20 years, probably over a dozen or more. I also have a TI/99-4a in the box which was my first, from around '83 I think. Anybody need a LS-120 drive and disks? :laugh:
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
kmoorevs wrote:
I still have every machine that I have ever owned over the last 20 years
Oh, I give old computers away, to schools and what have you -- but I do so with them complete with all the upgraded hardware, so what I get to keep is the worse quality stuff and the smaller memory sticks. I get the feeling that I'm doing it wrong, somehow.
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A post like that will get me started just about every time... I've got memory sticks I don't recognize and have no idea what type of system they'll fit. I did bring a bunch of old hardware for recycling a few years ago...SCSI adapters, old NICs, AGP video cards, sound cards, lots of serial, parallel, IDE and SCSI cables...and I still have a bunch left. I must have 50 unused hard drives, although some are still recent (up to 4TB) which I really ought to turn into a big consolidated pool just for the sake of having an extra backup. I did keep one SCSI adapter (and a functional system that can use it), since I still have an expensive SCSI scanner with a significantly larger scan area than most.
SCSI to db25? Same here. I've also got a ton and a half of serial data kit & cables, but I didn't include them on my list, because they came in bloody handy during a long contract (>6 months), a while back, for a place that produces systems using standards that have to be approved by about 73,000 countries. By the time they've finally all approved the use of Ethernet, we'll all be using something else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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IOW, you control the Netherlands' strategic supply of (almost) pure silicon, and spinning rust. Way to go! :)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Not a single damned thing with gold contacts, though :mad:
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Not a single damned thing with gold contacts, though :mad:
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
A few years ago, I conducted a group of junior high-school kids around the lab at work. I showed them the embedded flash RAM chips that we produce, and told them that the ball contacts are coated with gold. You should have seen them all perk up - until I told them that (a) we were talking about quantities of well under 1 gram per device, and (b) that it would probably cost them more than the value of the gold to get it off the contacts. :(
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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... the IBM PS2 286 ever comes back into fashion, I've still got compatible memory cards for it. And for dozens of flavours of 386, 486, Pentium, and every other desktop & laptop whose memory I've upgraded (i.e. all of 'em; one of the first things I do when I buy a machine is max out the memory). I've also got "just in case" old video cards, sound cards, and every other kind of card -- sometimes multiples of each! If Token Ring ever sees a resurgence, I won't have to spend a penny on hardware -- Hell, I've got network cards for protocols I don't even remember or recognise! Same problem with cables. I must have almost every kind of cable, adapter, and converter that's ever seen the light of day, but I don't even remember what many of them were designed to connect to! Need a USB 1 card? I've got 13 (although I have used a couple of these in newer machines -- why waste precious blue ports for HIDs?) [edit] I forgot to mention the hard drives! Anyone want slow-as-molasses drives with a capacity of under a third of a gig? [/edit] The really good thing, though, is that I'm highly competent at carpentry and building, because I need to add an extension to my computer room.
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I still have my first ever hard disk - a 20MB hard card for an ISA slot that cost me £250, and my first ever USB thumbdrive - 64MB
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I still have my first ever hard disk - a 20MB hard card for an ISA slot that cost me £250, and my first ever USB thumbdrive - 64MB
========================================================= I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka. =========================================================
Ah, but those have sentimental value. Most of what I've kept only has value if you're just mental, without the senti.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, but those have sentimental value. Most of what I've kept only has value if you're just mental, without the senti.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I've also got various PC's (my oldest is an 8086 running DOS 3.1), boxes of cables, disks, soundcards and even an old Toshiba laptop with a 2 inch floppy disk drive!
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I've only got the DOS 5 manual. Do you think it's time I upgraded my manuals?
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I've got a DOS 3.3 manual here at work laying next to one of our build servers. It serves as a writing pad when labelling the DVD's we use for archival backup.
Software Zen:
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Any narrow SCSI drives? My MicroVAX could use more storage.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
MicroVAX
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SCSI to db25? Same here. I've also got a ton and a half of serial data kit & cables, but I didn't include them on my list, because they came in bloody handy during a long contract (>6 months), a while back, for a place that produces systems using standards that have to be approved by about 73,000 countries. By the time they've finally all approved the use of Ethernet, we'll all be using something else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!