It's Past Time To Clean Out The Machine Room When...

[vakkotaur]

...you uncover almost an entire computer you didn't know was in there.

After jmaynard left for the airport yesterday, I got somewhat ambitious and started cleaning up bits of the house. It might be hard to tell, but I did make a dent in a few things. The machine room got the most treatment when I got sick of tripping over stuff. The various keyboards are all in one box now (KVM switches are nice things) and I think I've separated my stuff from Jay's stuff but won't toss anything until we've both looked through things, lest I toss something that's not junk.

The result of the machine room cleaning, so far, is that my Apple //e is once more accessible and there's nothing piled on the floor in front of it. I also found not one, but two socket-7 motherboards (one is disturbingly new looking and even has the manual with it - how come it never got used?), three small bags of memory (168, 72, and even 30 pin), a few 486s and a couple socket-7 CPUs, including a Cyrix 686 PR200+. There was also a disturbingly new looking sound card. I didn't find any socket-7 CPU heat sinks or fans, but I suspect there might be some lurking in a particular box I haven't gone through yet. I didn't swap anything out of vector as by the time I got that far I'd had enough.

We could use a tape rack for storing for 9-track mainframe tapes. Unfortunately there seems to be no good place for such a thing. I haven't really looked at the machine room ("McGee, don't open that...") closet yet. It may be best that I don't for a while.

[Addendum: Lest anyone get the wrong impression, I knew about the //e. It was the other stuff that was rather surprising.]