Screwdriver Therapy
Aug. 18th, 2005 12:04 amHey.
I just spent about half of this evening disassembling/salvaging the hardware of the moribund NoName PC. (In hindsight, I could have named it "Celery Green", because of the green trim on its case and the Celeron processor inside it...but I don't care for veggies much.) And so, I have a stripped-out frame, and all its components removed. This is the second time I've done this sort of thing, so I have a bunch of still somewhat viable computer hardware, including:
* two power supply units
* three CD-ROM drives, one of which is a Hewlett-Packard RW unit
* four floppy drives, 2 X 3.5 inch and 2 X 5.25 inch
* at least one modem
* a USB outlet that was hardly ever used
* at least one keyboard
* a brand-new mouse (see previous blog)
* a perfectly good monitor
* a perfectly good H-P Deskjet 695 printer
* two sets of external speakers (as well as a couple "internal" ones
* memory chips (well, these may not be good)
* motherboard-to-drive ribbon cable
* screws, fasteners, jumpers, cables, cooling fans, and a pair of clock batteries
And so, the thrifty and frugal guy I am will probably ask the salesman at the store with which I shall do business tomorrow whether the upcoming computer could use any of these things...or if trading-in will get me a discount from the bottom line. At the very least, I need BOTH types of floppy drives (NoName didn't have a 5.25 in., one was from FrankIntel's Monster--the computer NoName replaced) as my mother and I have a bunch of "legacy" content still on 5.25 format.
And if I don't get to use everything, I know an outfit that will want it for recycling.
Some good will come of this, I swear.
FP
I just spent about half of this evening disassembling/salvaging the hardware of the moribund NoName PC. (In hindsight, I could have named it "Celery Green", because of the green trim on its case and the Celeron processor inside it...but I don't care for veggies much.) And so, I have a stripped-out frame, and all its components removed. This is the second time I've done this sort of thing, so I have a bunch of still somewhat viable computer hardware, including:
* two power supply units
* three CD-ROM drives, one of which is a Hewlett-Packard RW unit
* four floppy drives, 2 X 3.5 inch and 2 X 5.25 inch
* at least one modem
* a USB outlet that was hardly ever used
* at least one keyboard
* a brand-new mouse (see previous blog)
* a perfectly good monitor
* a perfectly good H-P Deskjet 695 printer
* two sets of external speakers (as well as a couple "internal" ones
* memory chips (well, these may not be good)
* motherboard-to-drive ribbon cable
* screws, fasteners, jumpers, cables, cooling fans, and a pair of clock batteries
And so, the thrifty and frugal guy I am will probably ask the salesman at the store with which I shall do business tomorrow whether the upcoming computer could use any of these things...or if trading-in will get me a discount from the bottom line. At the very least, I need BOTH types of floppy drives (NoName didn't have a 5.25 in., one was from FrankIntel's Monster--the computer NoName replaced) as my mother and I have a bunch of "legacy" content still on 5.25 format.
And if I don't get to use everything, I know an outfit that will want it for recycling.
Some good will come of this, I swear.
FP