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Today’s clear out was not so much an item as junk. You see, in the process of clearing out the previous items over the last few days, I’ve been tidying up the upstairs sun room. I also ended up with a whole box full of trash - old paperwork, wrappers cartons, and various other small [...]

Another hard drive that’s been lurking around for 3-4 years. At the time I thought something with IBM on it might be more reliable, but it failed after a few months - just out of it’s warranty. In fact, it was still new enough that I’d not practiced what I preach, and backed it [...]

A neighbor gave this to me. I didn’t have a burning desire for it (excuse the pun), but it did come in handy as a spare desktop CD burner, until one evening, a CD I put into it decided, with a hell of a noise, to shatter inside the drive, in a million pieces.
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Today out goes this old hard drive. It was a bargain when I bought it - a factory refurb - but at today’s prices it would seem ridiculously expensive, as hard drive prices continue to tumble. It was a decent size then too, but I’d not normally buy anything less than a 500GB one now [...]

Today this monitor is going to the trash. It doesn’t work. It’s not that old but it gave up the ghost a few months ago, and it’s been sitting here gathering dust. Perhaps I should quit buying “bargain” stuff.
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