I used to have a pile of junk... but I utilized most of it...
My rig, 1800+ OCed pretty far, some awesome components... needless to say it isn't junk.
Logitech cordless mosue has no home though, it was replaced by my MX700 keyboard/mouse combo!
My sister has my old computer setup, for the most part. It is an 1800+ that for the life of it wouldn't overclock. Then again, it was a bad revision, the motherboard wasn't built for any sort of overclocking, and the memory sucks. The machine works fine though.
Compaq 120 Mhz running Windows 98 with 120 Mb memory is my mother's machine. She is fond of it and doesn't wish to upgrade. She has an optical mouse with it though, for a ball mouse wasn't exactly managable by her.
AMD K6-3 400 Mhz setup for my father's computer. It works for him, not much else to say there. Windows XP setup though.
Pentium 100 Mhz, 540 Mb HDD, running Smoothwall. It serves as my router-firewall thing.
AMD K6-3 400 Mhz setup (a clone of my father's comptuer, used to be my sisters) is running off of the last decent sized drive that isn't failing on me (I hope), a 15 Gb drive (the 10 that was also in there failed on the fourth boot). I ironically want to make this into a Linux Samba server for backup purposes for my family (I warned them to keep a copy on their machines too!) (this idea I started today, random thought... I can be strange like that sometimes).
A non-utilized computer, IBM XT... burried somewhere... worked when it was burried... and by burried, I mean lost somewhere in the house...
Drives... 2 Gb dead, 1 Gb dead, 640 Mb dead, 10 Gb dead, 340 Mb living, 428 Mb living (sort of), 200 Mb oversized drive (on strange outdated connector) untested.
I have two motherboards, 486 120 Mhz boards, still work. I remember having a motherboard with an overdrive CPU in it that didn't work (or, at least, it is supposed to work if you filled up 5 ram banks... at the time I didn't have that many ram chips). I have one motherboard (not mentioned, I don't think) filled with earliest revision memory (4 banks) and I have 2 banks of memory sitting around, next revision above that.
Got two sets of speakers (one is dead), a commodore 64 (kinda dead), 1 mini-tower (some moron welded the motherboard tray into the case and I never did get around to cutting the tray out) + 1 full case (was a 386 server case, those things are monsters), + 1 desktop case (worthless, everything in that case was made for 5.25" drives, and besides everything that was external in that case was made for the custom motherboard... blah).
I still have a tape drive backup system that allows me to backup my system to 100 Mb tapes and it only takes a little over 3 hours to do so (needless to say, I don't use this anymore).
1 dead monitor and 1 monitor that most of the time has no red component (makes for quazi neat pictures and I have to use it since it is the only greater than 640x480 capable monitor I have!).
I have some 5.25" floppy drives, not all are in functional contidion or one piece. I am out of 3.25" floppy drives
'() and readily accessable CD drives
'(). I do know that if I need a CD drive, I can pull my Creative Sound Blaster CD drive out of storage (they made such things, they are the first ones to actually go 1x.... weeeee).
Every keyboard I have has no WIN key, except for my Logitech and my sister's Compaq keyboard. My mother's compaq does not take a standard keyboard (it takes a propriatry keyboard (still working THANK GOD) that plays sound out of it as well as having built in volume control).
A lot of the stuff I have is burried to say, and I never took an inventory of it. That is just the stuff that I remember. I am going through college, so technically everything (that my family doesn't give me or that isn't specifically mine (like my rig)) is my familys. They don't want to get rid of ANYTHING, so thus it sits...
I most likely have an impressive collection of worthless stuff. I know, because if it was worthwhile, it would be working in some capability right now... Hard drives are my main shortage, followed closely by addon drives (CD and floppy), followed by video, followed by ram/motherboard/CPUs... so, it degenerates from there.
I do have some speciality stuff I just found recently, I can post pictures (maybe) if you want...
An ancient sound board, I think it is a Yamaha MPC5005. It is a full ISA board with another mini board on top of it (connected via a cable) that provides extra outputs. In other words, the sound jacks are on the actual board while the joystick and a MIDI port are on the addon card thingy.
Now, the grand daddy of strange stuff. The Magnavox CDD 200, a CD Rom drive that uses a caddy system. Every caddy drive I have seen has you insert the caddy with the CD, then use the CD, and then when you are done you eject the caddy and take it with you. This drive, however, has <b>no functional ejection system</b>.
The caddy holds the disk so you can insert it. Once inserted, you remove the caddy which is now missing a part of it and the CD. When you want the CD, you stick the caddy back in and it when it comes back out it has the missing parts. I found that interesting to say the least.
The drive is in origional packaging (unspectacular packaging) and has all manuals and parts (which is pretty nifty). I never used it though and I never remember it being used. It requires an addon card to operate (because the connector certainly is NOT one I have ever seen before)(I do have the addon card and cables by the way).
Some specifications from the manual (in case you are curious). Access time is 500 ms average, 1000 ms maximum typical. Transfer rate is 153.6 Kbyte/s - 176.4 Kbytes/s.
Eitherways, it still sits, maybe one day I'll use it just for the heck of it. I guess my little rant is done, for now...
