Bye bye old kit … and thanks

Jun 23, 2013

June means the yearly hard rubbish removal for me; we don’t have a council tip. This year the focus was inside, with cleaning out the old “I’ll just keep that technical item, because one day…”. Well, that one day either never came or was 12 years ago. And here’s the main lot:

As usual some fascinating items turned up, including:

My first PDA, 2001’s Visor Edge model from Handspring. The non-phone, smart-phone As in, I stored my contacts, calendar, to-do list plus heaps of general information, arranged with ‘tags’ so you could quickly find items marked “Good Books” or “Things to Buy”.
Bye bye to the 7 year old desktop PC. The old HDD and the new SSD taken out to (hopefully soon) have any interesting content moved onto a new centralised storage thingy. Details vague, but probably a small QNAP NAS with mirroring. The SSD will be put aside and may end up as a 2nd SSD in the new PC.
My final dial up modem (just in case I have to send a fax (!) I still have an old laptop with a dial up modem inbuilt)
A Swann USB1 powered hub.
Playstation steering wheel and pedals.
Commodore Amiga Midi interface (to talk to my old Roland keyboard) and an Amiga joystick.
Two Iomega Zip drives (all old Zip drive content archived off some years ago). These babies were a marvel. They came after floppies but before CD took off. A floppy could hold 1.44 MB – the reusable Zip drive about 100MB! CDs came later and were about 600 MB.
The last film-era 35mm camera lens. This one had somehow missed the fate of it’s brethren and was found hiding in a cupboard. If glass could cry, this would be gently sobbing.