Someday, my room will be full of such junk!

Wow. That's actually kind of like my room...

Looks like my desk. You do commissions?

Occasionally. Will post a journal when I'm open for the next round (probably next week) :)

given how fanatic he gets wit h everything, i have to wonder what it would be like if he built an organizer for his junk

I highly doubt that he'd end up building an organizer for his junk simply because Wolf gets sidetracked far too easily.

"It will have a dozen electric drawers... hmm wonder what's the best motor for that... oh look, you can build microbots with them... I could build a scale replica of the megazord! ...I can improve on it!"
[...]
"Wolf, why is NASA asking if you sent a dozen tiny rockets to mars?"

Yeah, that sounds about right.

It would start off as an organiser and turn into a killer robot

So instead of chanting "EX-TER-MIN-ATE EX-TER-MIN-ATE" it would go "OR-GAN-IZE OR-GAN-IZE"?

Haha exactly! Wolf's ultimate fear, organisation.

Ohhhh.... My... GHOHHHD! When was the last time I used a "Scuzzy" reader? I believe Reagan was President.

Other question, when was the last time I've worked with an ISA card? Must be around the moon landings or earlier, computer stone age, long forgotten...
..no, wait, it was 2005. Damn it

But if Wolf has a S-100 bus cpu card somewhere, he will have my respect

Internal SCSI ZIP Drive 100 ...hundred Megabytes...as BACKUP medium

Omg, my USB-Stick has 64 Gigabyte nowadays....those were the days...

what is a ISA SCSI Card anyway?

SCSI (pronounced "scuzzy") is an interface for connecting peripherals to a computer. SCSI devices were daisy-chained together; the first device plugged into the computer, the second device plugged into the first device, and so on. It was used back in the day to hook up hard drives, CD-ROM drives, ZIP drives, tape drives, scanners, etc. Nowadays, it's been entirely supplanted by USB, IDE, and SATA.

ISA cards were a type of expansion cards for computers. ISA has been replaced by PCI and PCI-Express cards.

Essentially, wolf found a computer part that would have been quite useful... in 1992.

I totally forgot about the daisy chaining! Man, you'd have to set the individual device IDs too, by toggling DIP switches I feel spoiled by the convenience of USB.

Don't forget the vital part of scsi daisy chaining, (with austrian accent) the Terminator!!!

SCSI has been mainly used in servers and saw several variants over time.

Today SCSI has become "serial", and is now "SAS". SAS controllers are SATA-compatible.

Yeah, I have been messing with computers for 30 years and DIY PC building since 1991.



I fear you could easily replace Wolf with ME in this picture. (I'm a Ranari. Tiger-Dragon hybrid...)

Toooo much junk

My life. I always horded things thinking they'd have some use later on. still kinda do this. because some stuff is so useful that you wouldn't expect. ^^

OMG! Just like my Mom ( "but, we might NEED that for Xmas.. 4th of July… Boxing Day…" ).

Wolf never had a job as a system administrator? Strange, this will definitely bring you into the "hoarding" area, where it is not advisable to throw away anything (even if it is partially broken) after the first few encounters with Murphy's Law. Whatever you throw away as "oooold, nobody will ever use this again, ever", somebody will need it some time later. Encountered it so many times myself, it's no coincidence!

Hehe. Remember the walrus dude from Jessie's arc in the office, and the pile of junk in the IT den? Wolf should fit right in (assuming he wouldn't just steal the entire pile) :D

He would probably make the whole pile explode
Come to think of it, he isn't as much in the right place as an admin, he would be a great asset for Mythbusters

Does wolf also manage to use all of his junk too ?

Wolf reminds me of Keaton from FE Fates. So adorable! <3

My approach to parts is the same way, never know when you might need something! Kept the old computer that died for parts and sure enough it paid off when the graphics card died in the new one.

I can beat Wolf on this one; as I have a fully working KayPro 4 and a AT&T 6300plus.

Any one remember the KayPro's CP/M operating system and the 6300's 236 processor?

Heck, I even have a Atari 400 with the Basic cartridge and tape drive.

If Wolf was (assuming sill is), what are the odds he's been "tinkering" with it and how dangerous is the stuff now?

I've seen worse tech hoarders.

I think I still have an ESDI 8-bit ISA card kicking around......

I'm different! I'm buying things that I feel I might use in future. And I must say I already used all of them. It are all USB devices or converters - RS-232, GPS, PS/2 keyboard/mouse,...and then I have SPI LCD display from car radio and similar things, that I may use in future OR take inspiration from it :)

Adaptec AVA-1520B OMG, such old times...

I still have a Sound Blaster 1.0 (w/ optional FM synth chips!) and a couple of 3Dfx cards in my junkpile, for nostalgia's sake.

My sister bought a tiny palm-top (think, smaller than a netbook) computer. It had a marble-sort-of-thing for moving the pointer, not very user-friendly. Unfortunately, it had an oddball peripheral interface. I wound up having to find it in Computer Shopper:

(* Sing it with me, kiddies *)

PCMCIA MOUSE!

A PCMCIA *mouse*?! Wow, that *is* an oddity :D

Mickey Mouse Club reference aside, it was a weird little machine -- Acer or Asus or some such. Same class as my Toshiba Libretto 100.

A marble? Maybe a pretty small trackball?

Trackballs are like old mice that had heavy balls (...okay, who is going to make a remark about this double meaning??) instead of a laser or LED. A trackball basically is a mouse put upside down, so your palm rolls the ball. They have become rare nowadays, I think even Logitech stopped making them.

Marble -- a tiny, little Chinese-Checkers marble installed in the lid, next to the LCD screen. The manual even called it a marble controller.

I'm an old buzzard; I owned the third trackball ever marketed for desktop computers. It was a 'snooker ball' made for the Radio Shack Color Computer. Apple was first (way pre-Mac), then Commodore, then TRS-80 CoCo. The thing was made with a regulation pool cue ball (a lot of commercial coin-op games used the exact same guts) and last-forever buttons. It still worked last I had a CoCo up and running.

My brother recently bought a new (well, NOS) Logitech trackball -- he eschews mice.

Hey if you throw it away it may become very important very quickly! XD

Sad to say, I got one that will support up to 64 120meg drives, ...