and it's pretty toasty around here, a fact that I find useless to complain about as it's always like that this time of the year, and will remain so for a long time yet, possibly up into December, which seems to becoming the new rule down here on the Mudflats.

The Clearances are continuing, every Tuesday I drive over to EPO with yet another load of assorted junk, this last being two boxes of old hard drives (one small IDEs of 2-4-8 Gb size, the other being a number of SCSI drives), along with a beast of a nine-drive server array built of solid steel that weighed about as much as I do. I never got to start up the server array but from hearing what a single SCSI drive makes, I can only imagine something like a group of F16 fighters parked in the room with me. Anyhow, this marks the last of the really heavy stuff, the rest being mainly dozens of CD drives, and 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" floppy drives, a horde of motherboards and boxes of cables of every possible variety, internal and external. Not to mention all the empty computer cases in the garage, and boxes of various cards. And that big box of Bernouli drives and cartridges (would anyone be interested in that???) and Zip drives and 100 and 250 Mb cartridges and etc. And boxes and boxes of software, including one xerox paper box full of 5 1/4" floppies.

I still have a 1996 Apple All-In-One with a Sonnet CPU upgrade that runs OS X (10.2) quite nicely, or did until it stopped booting up. ;__;