rhyds Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 After starting to tidy my new office a number of strange things have turned up including a boxed, unused router, stacks of spare CD/DVD drives, HDDs, a Black and Decker jigsaw, a water heater and a sink 8O has anyone else found strange things at their place?
DSapseid Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 windows 3.1 floppy disks!! is the first thing that springs to mind. The old network cards bnc/vnc i cant remember what one is right! :oops:
enjay Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Recent clear-outs of old store cupboards (not mine, I might add) turned up some 5.25" floppies and (paid) invoice for 5 Acorn PCs (a bargain at just £700 each!!) A more productive clear-out a year or so ago found a "brand new" scanner which no one knew had been bought. I say brand new in inverted commas as it was boxed and unopened, yet 2 years old!
Geoff Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Some punched cards and a card reader. Some big Winchester disks. Some mechanical calculators.
pete Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 A parallel port webcam Netware install floppies Box of program chips for BBC Micros Random joke converter leads (scart -> scsi) oh, and we once found a student hiding in a box in a classroom.
Ric_ Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 I decided to tidy my cupboard out a little the other day... I've only been in my current job for 2 and a bit years! Anyway... What I thought were empty motherboard boxes (my predecessors were hoarders) in fact turned out to be 2 used mobos and a sealed box containing a Toshiba PC system board!!! I must have chucked out a couple of hundred CDs too!
Geoff Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 @Geoff Are you sure you are not Sid from UF? Heheh. Here's a picture. http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/sid/ad_linux-sid.gif
chrisa Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 We found two Brand new sealed Windows XP laptops and a Brand new sealed Windows XP computer that had a Delivery label from 3 years ago. I can't believe people forget about things like this, If it was there own money it would be different
Pottsey Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 At my old school I found a fully working sink with running hot water and mirror at the back of the room which was a little odd. The best find was the Acorn laptops.
maniac Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Not found so much at my current job, so many room moves in recent years that junk doesn't have time to collect. However in my previous job when I cleared out the two ICT store rooms they had I found; 2 hand held B/W scanners with MCI bus controller cards (Brand new in their boxes) 1 boxed up un used dot matrix printer Loads of old parallel port print servers Tonnes of old DOS and windows 3.1 software 1 old server (486 based) A complete set of SIMS floppy discs (circa 1990ish) Lots of paper work, most dating back to early 90's The second store room was literally stuffed full of old Computer and projection equipment, including 10+ RM186 machine, lots of BBC micro equipment (probably 30+ working machines) and lots of old film and slide projectors. I filled up a skip with that lot. Really didn't want to throw it out as most of it was in fantastic condition. Mike.
davyboi Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 once found a really old something like 8mb stick of ram witch was older than me, i think manufature date on it was 1986 lol i was born in 1989
DMcCoy Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 I found an IT book borrowed from the school libray this week when I cleared out an old cupboard. It was 16 years overdue. Also found some network plans, unfortunatly it was the econet from 1985.
seacider Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 A BBC model b micro and some Basic programming books. Funnily enough the Desighn Technology teachers decide they could use it with a milling machine they have
Halfmad Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 I found two old Mac Classics in a box earlier this week when gutting the server room. I've piled them with the other 20 that are currently hidden under the main hall stage
ConTheITGuy Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 I found an IT book borrowed from the school libray this week when I cleared out an old cupboard. It was 16 years overdue. Also found some network plans, unfortunatly it was the econet from 1985. Wouldn't like to be the one who takes it back - could be expensive! Andy
localzuk Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 I don't know about finding things when tidying but finding random cabling is one of my hobbies here. There is such a maze of cabling around the school it will take me weeks of work to remove the useless stuff. We still have half of our old BNC infrastructure in place!!
Andrew_C Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 I daren't look to deeply into the dark recesses of the cupboards; that's where the bodies are buried!
davyboi Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 also i found this weird little box thing in a cab, its got 2 ps2 ports for keyboard and mouse an network port and a monitor port, but its not powered or anything i tried pluging the things in but nothing happened i cant remember what it said in it now becuase im at a different site it take a picture on weds
RobC Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Sounds very much like KVM over IP. Very useful to have around...
brino Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 I found a seldom seen desk under the pile of C**p I have been collecting!
Quackers Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Found a pile of old RM Nimbus 386's from early 90's hiding at the back of a maths store room a few months back, they had gone yellow and smelled.
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