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Besides large items, like entire old computers, monitors, printers, how many boxes of miscellaneous computer-related hardware to you have stashed in your house? Stuff like power cords, installation discs, adapters, roller-ball mice, memory sticks, cannibalized stuff from old computers, pin-printer ink cartridges, etc.
I'm getting better. When movie theatres were coming into the business and lasting about as long as CFL lamps, I made it a policy to buy back equipment I had sold, to refurb and resell at a discount. I'm thankful at this point that I wasn't selling 35mm projectors.
I have about six boxes (the type of boxes copy paper comes in at the office) of old computer parts. One box is all ethernet cable. Another box is HMI (Human Machine Interface) stuff like mouse, keyboads, microphones, another box is about a dozen old hard drives, another box is tons of USB stuff, another box is speakers and power supplies and cables, another box is cards and networking stuff.
A little off topic, but something showing the dangers of keeping stuff, one of the companies that I worked for in Miami had a huge warehouse (a la Indiana Jones) chock full of cigarette machines. Amazing and sobering at the same time.
Not nearly as much as I used to, and it's getting to be less everyday.
I have one drawer of extra cables, 5 or 6 old HDD's, and an old TV tuner / capture card. I also have a spare case / PSU. This is what I'm keeping for now, but I'll probably get rid of most of it next year.
I have one box sitting in my office that I'm getting rid of (old RAM, CPUs, Video Cards, Routers, extra keyboards, cables, etc). It needs a few more things added, and then it's gone
I also have 1 complete tower, a flatbed scanner, and an extra all in one printer. I'm going to use these (along with my current all in one printer) to put together a scanning station to scan in years of family photos, and then all three will go to new homes.
Everything else is either running and being used every day, or hardware that is specific to a client (usually owned by the client) that I may need to work on something for them (mostly third party hardware that we interface to, but I do have a few printers and a touchscreen based thin client station).
I just took four or five boxes of old ISA cards, floppy drives, ribbon cables and other junk to the electronics recyclers a few weeks ago. They had been sitting in a closet for years.
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Anyone still have a shoebox full of floppy disks, all carefully labeled & numbered?
One of the things in that box was the install disks for Photoshop 3. The entire install fit on 6 floppy disks.
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When movie theatres were coming into the business and lasting about as long as CFL lamps, I made it a policy to buy back equipment I had sold, to refurb and resell at a discount. I'm thankful at this point that I wasn't selling 35mm projectors.
