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Apr. 23rd, 2010 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI wish there wasn't a possibility of rain tonight. If there wasn't, I'd be able to pile the hoard of computer hardware I'm getting rid of tomorrow in the driveway before moving it to my car. Instead, I'll have to figure out where in the house it will fit.
From just my parents house, we've already assembled seventeen keyboards (dating back to ones with the old AT plugs [and not Model Ms either]) and fifteen monitors (as far back as one made in 1986 that actually has vertical and horizontal hold knobs). I forget how many computers there are. The south side eves hid six of them. I used to joke that I had the entire history of the x86 processor. The six computers there, in a two neat little stacks, helped me live up to that claim. IBM XT, IBM AT, a 286, a 386, a 486, and a Pentium Classic.
I was a hell of a packrat when I was in junior high and high school, collecting this stuff. It's scary to think I already got rid of nine monitors from the basement of my own house, as well as five or six computers and boxes and boxes of peripherals. I'm so glad I'm not doing that anymore.
On top of that, I have to help get more stuff done at my house for the move tonight, move all the big furniture with the rented truck tomorrow, and drive into Chicago to pick up a queen size loft bed on Sunday. Go go Spring cleaning!
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Speaking of old and forgotten, I haven't posted a picture lately:
New York State Pavillion Detail
© Stormdog 2009
This is part of the New York State Pavillion in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, the site of the two New York world fairs.
From just my parents house, we've already assembled seventeen keyboards (dating back to ones with the old AT plugs [and not Model Ms either]) and fifteen monitors (as far back as one made in 1986 that actually has vertical and horizontal hold knobs). I forget how many computers there are. The south side eves hid six of them. I used to joke that I had the entire history of the x86 processor. The six computers there, in a two neat little stacks, helped me live up to that claim. IBM XT, IBM AT, a 286, a 386, a 486, and a Pentium Classic.
I was a hell of a packrat when I was in junior high and high school, collecting this stuff. It's scary to think I already got rid of nine monitors from the basement of my own house, as well as five or six computers and boxes and boxes of peripherals. I'm so glad I'm not doing that anymore.
On top of that, I have to help get more stuff done at my house for the move tonight, move all the big furniture with the rented truck tomorrow, and drive into Chicago to pick up a queen size loft bed on Sunday. Go go Spring cleaning!
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Speaking of old and forgotten, I haven't posted a picture lately:
New York State Pavillion Detail
© Stormdog 2009
This is part of the New York State Pavillion in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, the site of the two New York world fairs.
