Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Pondering the Imponderable -- 9:48 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I spent some time this weekend cleaning out the closet in my office. I recycled some old friends--a bunch of old Turbo C++ books I bought many moons ago. Most of them refer to old DOS versions of Turbo C++ and/or ancient versions of C++. I was never going to use them again, but it was still hard to part with them. I also finally tossed my 2400 baud modem. I probably paid a small fortune for that at one time. It's amazing how much room you can have if you just ditch some stuff you never use.

I also rearranged all of my spare computer parts. One tip: when you get a device with a DC adaptor, make sure to write on it what it is for. I've got a couple of adaptors of indeterminate origin. Some of them are kind enough to at least put the brand name on them. Some say nothing. I also seem to be accumulating the world's largest collection of IDE cables, CD-ROM-to-sound-card cables, and phone cords. Heaven only knows why.

J.t.Qbe comments: A few weeks ago I unpacked a box and found my Turbo C 1.0 floppies--I bought Turbo C the week of its release. It was SO COOL to have a C compiler on my PC!

As far as collections go, I have accumulated the world's largest collection of hard drives between 200MB and 500MB in size, as well as RAM SIMMs below 8MB.

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