239 CDs
We’re moving! The wife has been talking about a bigger house for 3+ years now, so with the housing prices at rock bottom and interest rates really great (for buyers, at least) we finally got off our butts and bought a new home on the other side of Louisville.
This weekend is packing packing packing. As a full-time software developer telecommuter, I have accumulated oodles of random IT equipment over the years (hey, you never know when you’re going to need spare parts!). I was packing up my office today — including The Parts Closet. It was like a trip into the past. Here’s a fun partial list of things that I found in TPC:
- A surprising number of Palm Products:
- 7 palm styluses
- A full pack (minus 1) of palm m100 protector stickers
- Palm m100
- Palm Treo
- Palm Clie
- Palm 1MB RAM (yes, megabyte) upgrade
- 239 CDs (yes way!!):
- Many Windows XP
- Many Microsoft Works
- Many Dell reinstall CDs
- 1 copy of Windows Millenium
- 4 AOL CDs (some as old as AOL 5.0)
- Oodles of drivers and “you just bought some IT equipment, so we feel compelled to give you a CD with other random stuff on it” CDs
- A USB smartcard reader (circa 2001)
- A 10mb nic with a BNC connector
- 3 laptop floppy drives
- 13 floppy disks
- A microtape answering machine
- 3 different DSL modems
- 15 IDE hard drives that I haven’t yet erased and am therefore too paranoid to throw away:
- The smallest was 9.2GB
- The largest was 60GB
- 5 were unmarked; I don’t know what size they were
- 3 analog phones
- 5 parallel printer cables (one extra long)
- 3 PS2 keyboards
- 14 conference/trade show bags (an I distinctly remember throwing/giving away at least a dozen or so a few years ago — man, those things just creep up on you!)
Ah… good times.
(Oh, and I found a whole box of pictures from undergrad/grad school. Some of you should be afraid. Be very afraid.)