The HandsOff Hardware Museum

[HandsOff]

I have found many old peices of computer junk that probably belong in a museum. It's bad enough that i have one or two old parallel port zip drives with maybe 30 zip disks. conceivably i could find a use for them someday (instead of CD-R/RW?)

i have a parallel port "snappy" video capture card, though i doubt i will ever have a compatable operating system

but for the all time useless piece of parallel port junk:

an external parallel port drive from CMS that supposedly was compatable with ancient macintosh or ibm pc's with...are you ready...a 43 megabyte hard drive! the think looks like a minerature computer, must weigh 20 pounds. And it just has that look and feel that screams, "I was cutting edge technology"

i think maybe it's time to part with some things!

-HandsOff

[Pigman]

My comp has a zip drive.

[big ed]

-{ Quote: "I have found many old peices of computer junk that probably belong in a museum. It's bad enough that i have one or two old parallel port zip drives with maybe 30 zip disks. conceivably i could find a use for them someday (instead of CD-R/RW?)

i have a parallel port "snappy" video capture card, though i doubt i will ever have a compatable operating system

but for the all time useless piece of parallel port junk:

an external parallel port drive from CMS that supposedly was compatable with ancient macintosh or ibm pc's with...are you ready...a 43 megabyte hard drive! the think looks like a minerature computer, must weigh 20 pounds. And it just has that look and feel that screams, "I was cutting edge technology"

i think maybe it's time to part with some things!

-HandsOff" }-
Uh, I have a Jaquard 500 sitting out in the barn somewhere. At one time it was a "State Of the Art" desktop. Has 2 - 8" floppy drives and a humongous 128k of ram(total). Used to be hooked up to a Pertec hard drive that was the size of a small pony. The 500 alone used to sell for about 25k bare bones. The manuals stacked about as high as Shaq O'neil.

I am driven to tears just thinking about it!

big ed

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "Uh, I have a Jaquard 500 sitting out in the barn somewhere. At one time it was a "State Of the Art" desktop. Has 2 - 8" floppy drives and a humongous 128k of ram(total). Used to be hooked up to a Pertec hard drive that was the size of a small pony. The 500 alone used to sell for about 25k bare bones. The manuals stacked about as high as Shaq O'neil.

I am driven to tears just thinking about it!

big ed" }-

Since DSL and the latest processors and video cards have come along, I don't feel the need to upgrade as often as I used to.

I keep one win 98 computer as a backup to my xp machine.

I got rid of the other three! :D

[Cochise]

Well I've still got my first Computer....it takes up 3/4 of our 20'x20' spare bed-room, floor to ceiling in our Tepee Condominium....AND I've still got the Coal-fired boiler that provided the Steam needed to run it.......beat that..... ;D

Cochise, 8)