letting go of stuff
Took a load of computers to the local Goodwill Computer Store today... total tally was one inkjet printer, one laser printer, one DEC dual Pentium-90, one DEC dual-capable Pentium 133, one PowerMac 6500, one 17" CRT, and one Dell Pentium III (with a WinME license). Oh, plus a basket or so full of clothes. The great thing about donating to them is that they will recycle the stuff they don't try to sell - so it's better than throwing in the trash, even if they can't use it.
I still have: Sun Ultra 10, Sun E-250, Sun E-4500, Sun Sparcstation 5, Dell Latitude laptop, and Athlon XP 3000+ with WinXP Home license at home (plus misphit's laptop, my laptop, and my workstation). I'm trying to find the cooling fan for the Athlon system before I donate it, but that plus the Latitude are headed for donation soon. I was working on sending the Ultra 10 to an OpenBSD developer who needed it, but he's located in the UK - so I'm keeping an eye on the OpenBSD want list in case a need pops up here in North America.
I keep meaning to move over firewall duties to the Sparc 5, and I'd like to use the E-250 as a file server... but it needs a little bit of love to run again. I want to run the E-4500, I just don't want to pay the electric bill for doing so... so it's kind of on hiatus. Overall, the number of systems floating around my house is going down, though, and I think that's a very good thing.
On top of that, I've made a couple of runs to Half Price Books in the last week, netting me $10.50 and a fair bit of free shelf space. I've also put up a few books for sale on Amazon.com, we'll see how that goes (or not). Of course I'm still buying a lot of books, but maintaining a constant total book volume is better than going up!
I still have: Sun Ultra 10, Sun E-250, Sun E-4500, Sun Sparcstation 5, Dell Latitude laptop, and Athlon XP 3000+ with WinXP Home license at home (plus misphit's laptop, my laptop, and my workstation). I'm trying to find the cooling fan for the Athlon system before I donate it, but that plus the Latitude are headed for donation soon. I was working on sending the Ultra 10 to an OpenBSD developer who needed it, but he's located in the UK - so I'm keeping an eye on the OpenBSD want list in case a need pops up here in North America.
I keep meaning to move over firewall duties to the Sparc 5, and I'd like to use the E-250 as a file server... but it needs a little bit of love to run again. I want to run the E-4500, I just don't want to pay the electric bill for doing so... so it's kind of on hiatus. Overall, the number of systems floating around my house is going down, though, and I think that's a very good thing.
On top of that, I've made a couple of runs to Half Price Books in the last week, netting me $10.50 and a fair bit of free shelf space. I've also put up a few books for sale on Amazon.com, we'll see how that goes (or not). Of course I'm still buying a lot of books, but maintaining a constant total book volume is better than going up!