A little bit about the hobby of old iron
If you are reading this note, I can assume that you, like me, know the love of the old iron. Diskettes stored in a box in the bottom drawer of the dresser. Coaxial, neatly hung under the ceiling to create a favorite atmosphere. Motherboards on the walls instead of paintings, icons and portraits. For many, this is not wildness, not the delirium of a drunken computer geek, but natural and understandable things.
Some time ago I revived another system unit, rummaging through the existing hardware. Collected, configured, connected to the network. It remains only to figure out why I need it. Maybe it will be file storage, maybe I use it instead of a virtual machine for some atrocious experiments. Somewhat later, I decided to sort out and sort out these old pieces of iron - I dug up a lot of all sorts of things. Now I think what to do with it. A large part of this iron is still good enough to be put into operation - it suffices to find the missing elements. Worst of all, I have things with power supplies and processors. If the former for the most part simply refuse to work, then for the latter, I usually lack radiators and coolers.
But why? What will I do with the next revived car?
As a result of my excavations, I clearly realized the beginning of my existence in IT, I found about 40 floppy disks (some even with drivers) and half a dozen disk drives for them. But all by 3.5 inches. Unfortunately, or maybe, fortunately, I did not find the five-inch floppy disks. Despite the fact that I used them somewhere in the early nineties, I do not think that I can take into account that time, because the computer was tuned by another uncle :)
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Why am I writing this? I want to know - how much such hoarding gives pain? Is it worth storing all this old iron, searching for missing parts, getting working machines? Let on the decoration of the home and key chains? Or distribute to those who wish and do not suffer from reflection on this?
Some time ago I revived another system unit, rummaging through the existing hardware. Collected, configured, connected to the network. It remains only to figure out why I need it. Maybe it will be file storage, maybe I use it instead of a virtual machine for some atrocious experiments. Somewhat later, I decided to sort out and sort out these old pieces of iron - I dug up a lot of all sorts of things. Now I think what to do with it. A large part of this iron is still good enough to be put into operation - it suffices to find the missing elements. Worst of all, I have things with power supplies and processors. If the former for the most part simply refuse to work, then for the latter, I usually lack radiators and coolers.
But why? What will I do with the next revived car?
As a result of my excavations, I clearly realized the beginning of my existence in IT, I found about 40 floppy disks (some even with drivers) and half a dozen disk drives for them. But all by 3.5 inches. Unfortunately, or maybe, fortunately, I did not find the five-inch floppy disks. Despite the fact that I used them somewhere in the early nineties, I do not think that I can take into account that time, because the computer was tuned by another uncle :)
')
Why am I writing this? I want to know - how much such hoarding gives pain? Is it worth storing all this old iron, searching for missing parts, getting working machines? Let on the decoration of the home and key chains? Or distribute to those who wish and do not suffer from reflection on this?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/19346/
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