On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:15 PM, Yersinia wrote:
I don't have the historical collection you do, hahaha!
Oh, what I listed doesn't even scratch the surface of the collection
I have, which is nothing compared to the collection I used to have. I
used to have rooms full of old computers. Alas, due to massive space
shrinkage over the last few years, almost my entire collection had to
be liquidated (read: sold off, given away, or otherwise disposed of).
My collection now consists only of machines or items that are of
specific interest to me.
The second computer was the 7200/120
I got rid of several of those in the last few weeks.
G3/233 DT Beige Rev 1, 96 MB RAM, 4 GB HD/OS 9.1
I have two of those sitting in my basement, although one of them is
sitting in a puddle of water right now (the other is on top of it
safely out of the water).
G3/400 DT Beige Rev 3, 768 MB RAM, 20 GB HD/OS 9.2.2, internal CDRW,
internal Zip, Rage 128 video card, A/V card.
I don't have any of those, but I do have a B&W G3/400 tower. My
project for the morning is to copy the drive I pulled from an iMac to
the drive in the B&W, and then scavenger some RAM from some PCs
kicking around here so I can give the B&W to a coworker.
on his "old" G4/867 Quicksilver, if I was willing to pay shipping.
Uhhh, this was rather a no-brainer, huh?
At current, my only G4 based machines are a pair of minis (one of
which my wife uses, and I forgot to list in my previous list of
machines that I "use"). Now that the prices on G4s are dropping, I'll
probably start to acquire some of them.
I do have a G4 card for a tray load iMac, but I've had major problems
with it, so it is sitting in a box right now. I also have a G4 card
for my 9600, but I never got around to installing it (it was too much
effort to drag the machine out from under my desk at work... and now
that it isn't under my desk and is instead on the floor next to me,
I'm phasing it out from use, so I don't really care about figuring
out which box I put the G4 processor upgrade for it into).
In addition to the fact that I haven't owned as many computers as you
have
Careful with the wording... I haven't "owned" as many computers as I
have "had". Until the last few years, very few of the computers that
I have had as "mine" were owned by me. They were usually owned by
employers. That took a turn a few years ago, when my primary employer
started to go bankrupt, and I was able to "acquire" computers that I
then put into service at work to upgrade machines they couldn't
afford to upgrade. Now, virtually every computer they use technically
belongs to me.
there's also the consideration that I live in a one-bedroom
apartment, so I simply don't have room for anything I have no
actual use
for, or no possible use for.
Eh, that didn't stop me when I was living in my crappy rental place.
I just stuffed things into every corner (but admittedly, I also had
use of a barn at that place, which I had packed, plus where I was
working had lots of empty rooms so I stored stuff there as well).
-chris
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