Friday, May 02, 2008
Oddly Depressing
I'm clearing out some old boxes and throwing stuff away instead of putting it in the loft. I'm not sure if I'm unhappy about what I'm throwing away, or what I decided to keep.
Lots of old invoices and receipts are in the "burn" box. The earliest dabs.co.uk order that I spotted was from 1999. Lots of old install floppy disks are in the bin, and instructions for X-wing vs Tie Fighter (I never got through the training levels) are in the recycle bin. There's an AGP graphics card with built in (analogue) TV tuner that has to go somewhere. I wonder if there are working drivers for it yet, maybe someone on Freecycle wants to find out?
For some reason I can't bring myself to bin the unused heatsink for a slot-1 Celeron CPU. To lessen the blow, I've designated a WEE (Waste Electronic Equipment) box, and I'll stick the heatsink and graphics card in there with the masses of old ribbon cables, and CDRom sound cables, and take it to the dump when my inner-hoarder isn't looking.
Other things to go, a Nikon Coolpix880 camera. Very expensive 9 years ago, took very nice pictures of the solar eclipse in 2000, but seems unusably slow now. Minolta A1 camera that might have a dodgy CCD in. Epson printer, probably has blocked nozzles. I think I need a bigger WEE box.
