My “electronic junk” closet.
Inspired to action by a recent post I read. I decided to haul off and take a turn cleaning out some of the detritus out of my life. I decided to tackle the electronic junk closet. If you’ve ever lived with one or are a computer person then you know what this is. That closet crammed with stuff that any other sane person would label as junk but a computerphile knows is more precious than gold.
So I start tossing stuff but inevitably though I begin going through things and reminiscing.
- Where did I get this?
- How did I use that?
- Why did I put this away and why was I saving that?
Mostly it’s old power cables from computers you no longer own, digital cameras that are laughable now, USB cables, Cat 5 cables, power cables for other devices that are totally unmarked. An old printer with dried out printer cartridges, A CRT monitor that must weigh at least 30 pounds.
Most of it goes into a box that will go to goodwill.
The problem area are the hard drives. I have this ridiculous fear about my data going out there into the world uncontrolled. I have long since wiped the memories of these drives and transferred the important things to newer bigger drives.
But, even after erasing, a hard drive’s data can be resurrected. I know it’s silly but these have to stay. My plan is to save several of these together and hire a shredding company to crush and destroy these one day.
The closet is pretty clean now but I can already tell that I will have plenty of stuff in here by this time next year. Technology keeps moving on and I will most certainly be discarding some old devices and adding to my hard drive collection by this time next year.
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