These computers are not junk!

Marc Farley challenged us storage geeks to wave our junk flags and reveal just how many computers we have. Well, I’m really not sure… Let’s see – in order of usefulness…

Networked:

1. Dell XPS M1210 laptop (killer!) with 120GB internal and 500 GB Western Digital My Book backup drive
2. TiVo Series 3 with 250 GB (yeah yeah not yet upgraded)
3. TiVo Series 2 with 140 GB
4. Homebrew Celeron 4 desktop with 320 GB
5. Wife’s Compaq laptop with 100 GB
6. Sa-weet HP Photosmart all-in-one with no storage (but it’s networked!)
7. Linksys 54G running Tomato (16 MB flasher!!)
8. 2 3Com Audreys (16 MB flash bay-bee!)
9. Old junker laptop with 10 GB
10. Virgin Webplayer Internet appliance with 64 MB disk-on-chip
11. Toshiba Portege booting from a 4 GB CompactFlash disk
12. Homebrew AMD K6 system with 20 GB

So my network has up to 11 devices on it… Interesting!

Now for the rest of the machines:

1. 40 GB iPod
2. Nomad Jukebox with 20 GB
3. Atari MegaSTE with 40 MB
4. Atari 1040STFM with a floppy
5. Atari 800XL with a floppy
6. Oldest junkiest Dell 382SX-20 laptop with 20 MB
7. AT&T PC6300 with 20 MB (my first PC)
8. Broken Mac SE

There’s at least a terabyte and a half right there… Plus my collection of odd hard disks – just today I was marveling at the fact that I have 50 MB, 500 MB, 5 GB, 50 GB, and 500 GB hard disks!

Yeah, we’re nuts.