Free stuff

Looks like I’ll be taking home a 17″ monitor from the office. It’s a CRT, and I don’t know for sure how I will get it back home (taxi-train-taxi, most likely), but it’s much nicer than the 15″ hunk of junk I am using now.

That one is on its last legs. It likes to make the visible screen narrower and narrower, showing me acres of back on either side of the screen, just before it goes POP and disappears into a singularity, thus showing me the end of the universe. So it’s a nice piece of equipment in that it helps me ponder the eventual fate of all creation but I can’t say it does much for my productivity in the meantime.

There is a 17″ LCD monitor with my name on it at the office. Looks good, and I was actually hoping to use both of these monitors at once, but I poked around online and found that the video card in the machine I’m using here isn’t powerful enough to drive two screens at once. And while I would have been willing to spend a couple thousand yen on a DVI-to-VGA adapter to get more screen real estate, I don’t think I will be springing for a ¥20,000+ video card to do that. Heck, I already did that at home.

Free stuff . . . I have some of it to give away, come to think of it. There’s an old PowerComputing Mac clone that needs a home. It comes with a 2GB hard drive, 192MB of RAM, and OS 8, or 8.5, or 9–I have the CDs for all of those. If anyone out there reads this and wants a rather underpowered toy to play with please let me know!

Other freebies: a PowerBook 150 (old, old, old, with a trackball and a black and white screen); a dishwasher (a gift from a coworker that doesn’t fit in our kitchen); some skis and boots (28.5cm blue and yellow Salomon boots, 208cm red Elan GS skis with Tyrolia bindings). I want this stuff out of my room so I can put this big monitor in there.

Any takers? Helloooooo helloooooooo . . .

04/27/2004 | work | Comments

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