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Oct. 20th, 2006 10:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThe floor of one of the storage rooms at work is being epoxied; never being one to pass up the opportunity to explore my cathartidaen tendencies, I checked with the person who manages that area to see if there might be any toys on their way out of the building. Score!
I ended up with two 802.11b access points, two wireless token ring access points (I didn't know there was ever wireless token ring; nifty!), and a nice bar code scanner by Symbol with a keyboard wedge connector like the Q Cat had. Most interesting of all though were the five wall-mountable Datalux peripheral boxes. They have a fold-out mini keyboard and a touch-sensitive LCD display panel. There are cables for the peripherals that can be plugged into a computer, and a very small (mini-itx maybe) computer can even be mounted inside the wall box. I was hoping that these were the ones that already had a computer in them like some of the others that have been sitting on a shelf here at work for years, but they may have already been stripped. They should still be lots of fun. I can either attach them to a nearby computer, build a computer into them, or remove the LCD touchscreen and mount it somewhere like inside a car as part of a car computer. (Yes, Posi is rubbing off on me. I'm already thinking about how to build one in to my truck.)
As well as supernumerary stuff from storage, I brought home a couple of Lexmark Laserjets with minor problems. One of them is networkable too! I'm going to swap parts to make one good one, hopefully, and set up on the network in my computer room so![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wooisme's computer isn't bogged down by the overhead of being a print server for my little HP laserjet.
Beyond that, I'm going to bringing home a good number, like six or eight, 15" and 17" monitors. I'm acquiring enough hardware that I'm thinking very seriously about throwing up a little web page with some hardware and system specs and prices, posting a link in my LJ, and offering inexpensive computers and parts to friends. In fact, I'm looking at selling some 500Mhz Dell laptops for about $50 and some P4 Compaq machines at 1.8 to 2Ghz for about $100 with legal OEM copies of Windows XP Pro. If anyone's interested, let me know and we'll talk. Maybe I'll be able to finance something like this.butterscotchvix is taking the first of the Dells; I hope it'll be just the thing for a traveling vixen. I know that Posi had someone who was interested in one of the Compaq's too.
I've got the rest of my vacation this year booked and approved. I have the whole week between Windycon and MFF, plus the Friday before. On top of that, I have December the 29th off too. I can't wait to have some time to myself. We will have to clean up before then though; we have carpet cleaners coming to the house this coming Thursday. I think we're just having them do the downstairs rooms and the stairs right now, but we'll have to get everything picked up for them.
My truck rolled over to 375,000 miles on the way home yesterday. Next year it's going to hit 400,000! I have to make sure I'm ready with a camera. I'm pretty sure my Olds got up that high too, but the odometer had gone long enough without working at one point that I couldn't tell. Not to mention the fact that it only had a five digit odometer, unlike the truck's six figure readout, so it wouldn't have made for that impressive a picture anyway.
More later; back to work.
I ended up with two 802.11b access points, two wireless token ring access points (I didn't know there was ever wireless token ring; nifty!), and a nice bar code scanner by Symbol with a keyboard wedge connector like the Q Cat had. Most interesting of all though were the five wall-mountable Datalux peripheral boxes. They have a fold-out mini keyboard and a touch-sensitive LCD display panel. There are cables for the peripherals that can be plugged into a computer, and a very small (mini-itx maybe) computer can even be mounted inside the wall box. I was hoping that these were the ones that already had a computer in them like some of the others that have been sitting on a shelf here at work for years, but they may have already been stripped. They should still be lots of fun. I can either attach them to a nearby computer, build a computer into them, or remove the LCD touchscreen and mount it somewhere like inside a car as part of a car computer. (Yes, Posi is rubbing off on me. I'm already thinking about how to build one in to my truck.)
As well as supernumerary stuff from storage, I brought home a couple of Lexmark Laserjets with minor problems. One of them is networkable too! I'm going to swap parts to make one good one, hopefully, and set up on the network in my computer room so
wooisme's computer isn't bogged down by the overhead of being a print server for my little HP laserjet.Beyond that, I'm going to bringing home a good number, like six or eight, 15" and 17" monitors. I'm acquiring enough hardware that I'm thinking very seriously about throwing up a little web page with some hardware and system specs and prices, posting a link in my LJ, and offering inexpensive computers and parts to friends. In fact, I'm looking at selling some 500Mhz Dell laptops for about $50 and some P4 Compaq machines at 1.8 to 2Ghz for about $100 with legal OEM copies of Windows XP Pro. If anyone's interested, let me know and we'll talk. Maybe I'll be able to finance something like this.
butterscotchvix is taking the first of the Dells; I hope it'll be just the thing for a traveling vixen. I know that Posi had someone who was interested in one of the Compaq's too. I've got the rest of my vacation this year booked and approved. I have the whole week between Windycon and MFF, plus the Friday before. On top of that, I have December the 29th off too. I can't wait to have some time to myself. We will have to clean up before then though; we have carpet cleaners coming to the house this coming Thursday. I think we're just having them do the downstairs rooms and the stairs right now, but we'll have to get everything picked up for them.
My truck rolled over to 375,000 miles on the way home yesterday. Next year it's going to hit 400,000! I have to make sure I'm ready with a camera. I'm pretty sure my Olds got up that high too, but the odometer had gone long enough without working at one point that I couldn't tell. Not to mention the fact that it only had a five digit odometer, unlike the truck's six figure readout, so it wouldn't have made for that impressive a picture anyway.
More later; back to work.
