Random Computer Photos - Back to Home
As I've explained plenty recently, due to some issues with my house, all of my current computer projects have been put on hold. Since the basement computer setups are currently out of commission, I decided to go through some old photos on my camera & tell some old stories that never quite made it to a full article.
Back in December 2021, I had the floppy drive in my Windows Vista era Compaq appear to die rather suddenly, as every disk I inserted would cause it to claim that the disk was not formatted; if you tried to format a disk, it would also fail. Thus, I opened it up & gave it an intense cleaning.
The drive was pulled from a dumpster, and I had never cleaned it before then, so I figured that was the likely cause. But alas, even after relubricating the rails, the drive still wouldn't work. Then, after disassembling it one too many times, the drive quite literally started falling apart, and I couldn't even reassemble it.
To replace it, I stole the floppy drive from the Dimension 8300, but after a few months, I just transferred it back to the Dimension again.
Speaking of the Presario SR5152NX, this image is the last one I took of the basement before I renovated everything. The janky setups I used to make always looked like something out of a meme.
This is the poor motherboard from the forest rescued PC. It was completely dead anyways, so just out of pure boredom to get a funny image, I threw it outside in a snowstorm. Fun fact: the Cisco Wave 274 arrived in the mail during the same snowstorm, which was not fun to deal with.
This is an empty server rack case I used to own. I found it next to a dumpster back around 2018, but I never found anything to do with it. One of the stickers on it indicates that it was originally built in 2001 with a Pentium III, and was used at a grain processing facility in Kansas. Because of how much space it took up, I ended up sending it back to the dumpster in 2022.
And finally, a sneak peek at a future page for this site: my very well preserved BlackBerry phone from around 2003. It still works just fine, and sometime in the future, I'll have an article showing off some of the cool old software that it has loaded on it.
Thank you to everyone for the continued support of the site, despite the lack of new content this summer. This August, I'll finally have the house repairs handled & get things back to normal.