In the carpet shuffle I pulled out a couple of old computers. One is an ancient Pentium II that my parents used for a couple of years. It has two hard drives, 1.5 GB and 600 MB. That's pretty old!
I also have a pretty decent computer that I think was mostly the server that fed my sites for two years, when I had the T-1 to the house. Those were some good times. The expense of it all was insane, but I really miss having a server where I can mess around with it and endlessly upgrade it.
Anyway, it's an Athlon XP 2000+ with a half-gig of RAM, and a pair of 20 gig, 7,200 RPM drives in it that I used with a Promise RAID controller. There's a lot of history in that box, and I guess a part of me wants to keep it. But it's just too damn big and my house too damn small to be keeping crap like that.
The funny thing to think about is how much things have changed. When I need to experiment or screw around with a computer, I can simply make a copy of a virtual machine. That's a far cry from having "spare" computers around.
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