A clear-out

The recent purchase of a new mini-desktop computer has prompted a bit of a Spring clean on the electrical front.

The big ticket item was a Hewlett Packard screen, as far as I know in working order apart from its obsolete connector to the host computer. According to its luggage ticket, it has been in the roof, under a sheet, since 2017. Heavy, for a flat screen. It is now in the garage awaiting transfer to the Blenheim Road tip.

Then there were two collections of CDs, all backing up some or other long lost aspect of my computing life. I went to the bother of scoring the label side of the CDs with the four lines of a noughts and crosses game to deter the nosy. I tried a paper knife, which did OK, but one of the oyster knives noticed at reference 1 did much better. A short but serious point with a comfortable handle. I imagine it would also do rather well at scratching the sort of paint that you have on cars. I use it for opening my matinal oranges.

A collection of power cables, all looking pretty much the same to me, presumably once belonging to long lost computers and peripherals.

A collection of miscellaneous cables, sporting an impressive variety of plugs and transformers. Some of them to do with the various telephones I have got through since I joined up with Carphone Warehouse and Nokia in Swindon at the start of the new millennium. How many young people remember how Nokia from modest Finland once dominated the world of mobile phones?

All now in the garage. Also all very wasteful: I was rather struck by the amount of energy that must have been burned up by it all. Not to mention all the valuable minerals. Much worse than chucking out surplus food. Or even old clothes.

PS: hopefully, all this stuff having not been touched for years and years, I will not suddenly develop an urgent need. I am sure I have got one of those in the roof somewhere...

References

Reference 1: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2015/10/autumn-cutlery-2.html.

Reference 2: https://www.nokia.com/. They still exist! Is it the same lot as is responsible for all the images above, turned up by Bing? I associate to the days when mobile phones were small and convenient and slipped comfortably into a trouser pocket.