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the nice mechanical keytronics keyboard i use on my living room music PC is acting wiggy. ctrl+whatever won't work. then i'll unplug, replug, and spacebar won't work. i have like, five keyboards somewhere, including an old AT-plug Gateway 2000 vintage classic. even if i don't have another USB, i must at least have a PS/2.... ...but, i cannot find my keyboards. they are fucking buried in loads and loads of stuff. i've been picking at it here and there, but it's such a massive tangle that nibbling around the edges has ceased being effective. so, i begin to drag everything out: most of it is sorting. like, i just took every cassette player i had and put them in a single plastic tub, so now they're not scattered in three different locations. do i need a bucket of old walkmen? probably not and this gets us to the point: i have lots of stuff that is too nice to throw out, but for which i don't really have much immediate use, and i'm sort of hung up on what to do. for example: i have a fairly large, well-curated collection of 486-era PC parts. you need a GSI-21 IDE controller? i got you covered. a serial/parallel ISA card? boom, i have multiple. IDE cables, floppy drive cables, serial cables, parallel cables? i have way too many, and i already threw some out i really do not need this stuff. i doubt i will ever use it.... but, i've carefully maintained it almost my whole life, and so it's rather hard for me to just chuck it all out. trying to figure out what to do instead. maybe someone here wants some of it? also have a massive collection of SCSI cables if anyone's 90s mac/mpc setup needs a replacement half figure i should just photo stuff and then ship it to whoever asks |
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quite orderly actually, a structured mind, |
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oh, sure, on some levels. dad and i would always have fun spending about three times longer than necessary to load up the car for moving and such, we called it "tetris-ing" and i definitely have a fundamental urge to sort the books on the shelf in neat lines and ensure that all this freaking crap i have takes up as little space as possible but, then, this backfires. i've stacked things so densely that whatever i need, in the middle, somewhere, may as well be in switzerland so, yes, my collection of vintage 90s PC parts is actually very neat, orderly, i have manuals, driver floppies, even original boxes in some cases. anything that was established to be knackered was promptly thrown out; aside from the whiles of time everything is likely working. meanwhile, the keyboards are somewhere behind something behind box 1/5 of old computer parts |
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cables and the motherlode of 80s/90s peripheral widgetry grab bag ~ note the massive, giant amongst others so many , both centronics and db connector - two self-contained dual setups, and generic cables for larger units with plugs instead of wires and misc 9pin serial and various I/O cards with original boxes -- ISA, PCI, AGP, lots of loose IDE cables, manuals for some there are more bins. |
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guess it's in the spirit of the season christmas lights are even worse tho, the bulbs snag |
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i -- found my old keyboards. gateway 2000 PC/AT, SGI PS/2, imac-era USB, and my trusty old IBM-branded PS/2, which is what i wanted to swap my keytronics out for ~ every front panel cut-out you could ever want (including ones i spray-painted in high school), every real-panel card slot blank too, including sundry ports. not visible: some floppy drives buried underneath. i have another bin or two of floppy drives and CDROM drives |
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a bit of a functional aside ~ i have zip drives, yes, but i do not have SCSI zip drives. SCSI zip drives are in demand due to certain 90's hardware being able to use it for mass storage, but i'm afraid i only have IDE, and i might have chucked all the 100's already. may have hung onto one for posterity, otherwise i probably have two or three zip 250 IDE i figure the SCSI cable collection will be of the most potential use for anyone here. i found some youtube vid a couple months back where the guy is all, "GSI-21, but i couldn't find the manual" and i have two of 'em, pristine, with manual and driver disks, figure i should just do some homework and ship it all to some youtube chap who does vintage PCs but i am asking here first. |
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the gameport/midi widgets are obviously interesting and still kinda useful, esp. given that i still have that port on some stuff, esp. my ghetto old music PC, so i may just keep those forever and if you're going to be all "yeah just ship me a game port to midi" i'll probably tell you to fuck off. |
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lovely, found myself here once again. will posts suggestions later! |
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lol, this is taking care of things! my heap looks a lot messier :) ok, heres what to do: suggestion no. 1: find a computer club and donate all of it. nicely labeled for easier storage on their end. maybe there is one nearby, collectors, builders, tweakers, eventually you end up making new friends or allies. in case you need anything you might get something in return, no? suggestion no. 2: sell it on e-bay, craigslist or whatever fleamarket platform. be it as a whole or seperately. i dont think this would be fun though. suggestion no. 3: keep it up! label, condense and stash! one day there may be use for any of these treasures. i ended up regretting trashing stuff i kept for a decade. old mags for example. they would still entertain me or fill my pockets if sold to other video game nerds. suggestion no. 4: build! use what you got and gather anything you need to rebuild vintage or custom pc´s, music gear etc... put em in a wooden housing with copper plates and stuff. or whatever feels right and sell sell them for extraordinary prices. (could be fun if you like and can afford to spend the time on it) there is hobbyists who do crazy stuff with old technology, like the "hdd synths". maybe you come up with a similar idea? |
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