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My oldest working (computer/laptop/notebook)s from the colony and me: 

Apple PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with MacOS X v10.2.8. I was playing Q3A and its 
mods in it back then! Thanks id Software!

Toshiba Satellite with its preinstalled Windows 98 SE OEM.

2 Intel MacBook Pros: 

  1. 13(.3)" 9,2; April/mid-2012; MD102ll/A model; unibody, Intel Core 
  i7 CPU (2.9 GHz; dual core, 4 MB L3 cache (Turbo Boost up to 3.6 
  Ghz)), updated macOS Mojave v10.14.6 (for old 32-bit apps) & 64-bit 
  W10 Pro with Boot Camp, 8 GB of 1600 MHZ DDR3 SDRAM, Intel HD graphics 
  4000, & Micron 500 GB SSD (FileVault enabled; replaced its 5400 RPM 
  HDD due to a physical drop). I still use it once in a awhile. Also, 
  BootCamp with 64-bit W10 Pro.

  2. 15" A1260 model, unibody; 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB (667 MHz) 
  of DDR2 SDRAM, 200 GB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (256 MB of VRAM), & 
  Mac OS X (El Capitan v10.11.6) from early 2008. Batteryless since it's 
  very old. I use it very rarely to acceess DeskJet F4280 (copier & 
  scanner; inkjet colors) from 2008. Printer's options are limited 
  compared to connected computer software. :(


Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Once a year (at least) I go through my collection of old PCs (and
> other devices), fire them up, make sure they're still running, update
> software as necessary (or possible. There's not a lot you can do with
> a Win95 machine with regards to updates these days ;-) and generally
> make sure my collection of obsolete junk isn't actually, irredeemably
> junk. It's time consuming and repetitive but (for certain types of
> strange personalities, at least) fun work. 

> A lot of my older PCs, I don't really have much use for; I keep them
> around for the nostalgic joy they bring me. That old 1997 IBM Lenovo
> laptop is never going to be my main computer, but it's fun to use and
> is surprisingly responsive. Less so that ancient Dell Inspiron, that I
> keep around mostly because it is the sole archive of my ancient iTunes
> library that I'm too lazy to transfer.

> Still, it occurs to me that maybe its time to cull the herd. But its
> so hard to choose which computer gets sent to the slaughter-house
> (a.k.a., the parts bin). Not my cube-like i5-4670 desktop; I love its
> chassis and hot-swappable hard-drives too much. The MacBook 3? No,
> that's (nominally) just a loaner given to me so not really mine to
> scrap (Admittedly, it was loaned to me ten years ago and I'm pretty
> sure the owner has forgotten all about it, but still). The old Gateway
> desktop? But how could I? That's the back-up to my back-up server! 

> Well, surely I could get rid of some of the mobile devices. That Palm
> Pilot with the screen that doesn't respond to touch; that can go,
> right? Oh, but I have such fond memories of using it as my MP3 player
> and it takes up almost no room in the closet; keeping it would make
> almost no difference. Maybe my first cell-phone... except it's a
> flip-phone Motorola; they don't make the like anymore! It's
> practically a historical artifact at this point! 

> Well, those Tzumi Bluetooth headphones can definitely go. The battery
> is dead, they never were comfortable, I've no use for bluephone
> headphones anyway, and I've no nostalgic feeling whatsoever for the
> device. It's just a shame they're buried so deep in storage. I'd
> literally have to move furniture just to open the drawers where
> they're stored. It all feels like too much effort.

> Hmmm. This old plastic screw I just found at the bottom of the parts
> bin is broken, and I don't know what it goes to anyway. I'll toss
> that. Yeah. That's a good start. But for now, I'd better just put
> everything away so it doesn't look all messy. You know, just until I'm
> ready to really start getting rid of stuff. Tomorrow, maybe. Or next
> week. Next month surely. Definitely by next January, when I have to
> check all the PCs again. But it'll happen; count on it.

> In the meantime, maybe I should get rid of some of my computer games?
> ;-)
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