Junk

In the interest of making our up and coming move to California a little more managable, I began cleaning out old crap that's just taking up space in the apartment. I went through two simple plastic crates full of all sorts of semi-worthless things like computer power cables (worthless until you need it) to broken palm pilots. For some reason, whether it be sentimental or laziness, I tend to keep crap for no particular reason. I finally got the guts to get rid of a few things and figure that I would document them here for posterity, before they met the dumpster.

Note: One other thing I learned today is that I do not know how to consistently operate a camera. This should become obvious with some of the pictures below.

The first item is a semi-ancient Asanta 10Mb hub. I have no idea why I have it, where I got it from, or why I was keeping it. No clue if it worked, and I never acquired a power supply to run it.





The second item is a Cirque touchpad of unknown model. I remember I got this a long time ago, because apparently money was burning a hole in my pocket. I never liked it, and used it maybe two or three times before it was relegated to a forgotten box.



You may remember the CueCat. I believe like most people, I acquired this from Radio Shack. Never used it, and I think most of us have long since forgotten them.



Here are a couple of old Sun laser mice. The kind that needed that stupid metal mouse pad with the tracking grid on them. I hated using those things - good riddance!



My first MP3 player, was a Create Labs Nomad. It sported a 32MB SD memory card and an FM tuner. Ran off of two AAA-sized NiCd batteries and was great for jogging. It's a shame the model I had only used a parallel port and only had drivers for Windows 98.



Here's a gem that I got from David, and will be going back to him. :-) It's a remote power switch that you can hook up to a phone line.



The Zip Plus was a great companion back before broadband to the home was readily available. Worked on both Mac and PC, and was exceedingly useful for bringing files back and forth from home to school. Never once experienced the "zip click of death".



Here's my PalmPilot Personal - I believe this was the first palm pilot available from Palm Inc. back when they were still owned by USR. Back before mobile internet was mainstream, these were actually useful! Now, the only thing these sorts of personal organizers are good for is hooking up to GPS receivers. As you can see, I lost this one to a cracked screen. It was a shame too, because I had the IR and 3MB memory upgrade that made it close to a Palm III.



Finally, I found my first two cellphones. The following pictures include an open and closed Motorola RAZR for comparison.

This is an Audiovox analog phone.



This is an NEC Analog/Digital Phone.



Here's a picture comparing the width of the NEC to the RAZR.