Our house is currently in a bit of a declutter and dumping phase... getting rid of a number of things that are past their useful stages and creating space for the things that we do want to keep around. Being the house tech-dork, that means that I'm going through boxes of old equipment and stuff to figure out what can be moved to different places and what can be removed from the house completely.
I already know that there is quite a bit of the old electronics that can be taken to the local waste management centre and gotten rid of... after all, if we aren't using it at the moment, then we aren't missing the stuff. A lot of this stuff was shipped over when we moved back to Australia from Europe... and they were already gathering dust when we were packing up!
But there was definitely some nostalgia in revisiting the computers that I had built... and a sort of relief when taking out things (the HDD mostly...) with not a care in the world, because it didn't really matter if the thing POST-ed or not! I just needed to extract the hard drive and then dump the rest.
... but it did give you a bit of an appreciation for how the cases were laid out... some much better than others... for instance, this "pre-built" computer that had mounting screws for the hard drive on both sides of the bay... but that had meant that you needed to take BOTH sides off the computer... just extra annoyance and work.
And this computer was an interesting one... one of my expat families was leaving, and they said that I could have this computer because it wasn't working... and when I got around to looking at it, it turned out it was just a stick of loose RAM that was causing it to not boot up. Clipping it back into the retainer meant that it was all working fine again!
... and seriously, very happy that I could just whack into as many things as I wanted... it was possible to extract this hard drive because the other bays weren't populated... but if they were, this would be a real pain in the arse as the cooling fan for the CPU was definitely in the way of sliding anything in or out easily!
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You would have a field day in my office. It's like a graveyard of old servers, computers, and devices. All waiting to get fixed or sent off to the recycle company. We have a place that comes and picks up several pallets of wasted a couple times a year from us!
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So cool that the condition still looked pristine. One thing I learned about storage is that it's also important to know where to store them and to figure out if the humidity is high or not. It can damage gadgets so easily if stored incorrectly. I would be paranoid leaving the HDD in there without backing them before storage. :D