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[pbray]

Newsflash-- it is now possible to walk in a straight line from the door of the writing room to the computer desk. Also there was a carpet under all that junk, whose color is now confirmed to be brown.

In potentially related news, three past projects were filed away, and the drafts for the ur-bar project were consigned to recycling.

Next step is to deal with the graveyard of dead/outdated tech--monitor, printer, desktop and laptop. Perhaps a joint funeral service followed by eco-friendly disposal of the corpses?

Comments

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

Magnets are good. There's also freeware out there that goes through all the "open" sections of drives and replaces it with "0101" combinations.

When I give away my original Athlon, I'm doing that.

[karen-w-newton.livejournal.com]

Wow, I never even heard of Athlon. Our old dual-floppy machine was a Kaypro.

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

An Athlon? The AMD chip that was the compeitior to the Intel Pentium III?

Computer makers started using the Athlon chipset back in 1999.

[karen-w-newton.livejournal.com]

Why does it sound so strange to say "Back in 1999"? I must be getting really old. Sounds like a year or two ago,

[mtlawson.livejournal.com]

It was, but when I was typing it up I realized it was 11 years ago.

Eeek.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I may do freeware on the machine that can run it. On the older one I'll likely just smash it.