These computers are not junk!

June 21, 2007 by Stephen 1 Comment

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:

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

40 GB iPod
Nomad Jukebox with 20 GB
Atari MegaSTE with 40 MB
Atari 1040STFM with a floppy
Atari 800XL with a floppy
Oldest junkiest Dell 382SX-20 laptop with 20 MB
AT&T PC6300 with 20 MB (my first PC)
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.

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