February 5, 2007
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Cold Storage
I went to the storage unit today, taking my first tentative steps towards ending my relationship with the stuff contained therein.
The plan was to sort stuff. The unit is a big closet size, and it wouldn’t take long to sort it into three piles: Computer recycling, Goodwill, and dump.
But it turns out that I had already done that. There’s only the computer recycling pile. And because that’s not what I planned, I ended up not doing much of anything with it. And to make matters worse, I thought I might bring home an old Mac and a big bag of floppy disks to see if any of my old writings were on them.
Stupid. It’s all still in the van. I’ll never look through those disks. I will, however, use the old Mac as an end table. It’s a Quadra 950; a small family could live inside it.
I also have a box of broken 680×0-era PowerBooks and assorted parts, which I’m stupid enough to think I should sell on craigslist. But the computer recycling people (Re-PC) will know what they’re looking at, and won’t just put them in the trash. At least, that’s the story I’ll tell myself.
So tomorrow is Re-PC day, and if they won’t take some of this stuff, I’ll… Well, I dunno. Call dibs if you want something.
For instance, I have a SCSI-based video display for PowerBooks. Monochrome. Har.
Comments (7)
tempt me not, foul.. uh.. tempter.
good luck with it…
That’s some old school dorkery. I have a commodore 64 floating around somewhere…
Oh, this was difficult to read. Images of my junk kept bidding for attention. But I dutifully shoved it all down and now I’m going to try to forget about it.
Probably need to get some counseling as it’s always difficult to end long term relationships like this.
I love the idea of re-using “ancient” technology as furniture. I tossed a Quadra 950 just last year.
Dude. We could have put a top over the two Quadras and called it a desk.