Spring cleaning time

Everyone of us probably has that big box of cables and assorted electronic gear that's been gathering dust over the past years. In my case there were two boxes, plus some cables lying in the proximity of the boxes and the computer. Today I took the opportunity to go through all of my cables and stuff and decide what to throw away. For fun's sake I made a list:

1. Apple Powerbook G4 667MHz with power adapter, spare power cord and two spare batteries;
2. IOmega Zip Drive with parallel interface, including parallel cable and power adapter;
3. 40GByte iPod 3G, with the black and white interface and a broken hard drive;
4. Palm m505 with usb cradle and power adapter;
5. Belkin USB 2.0 riser card that was used in my PowerMac;
6. Sony battery charger for the 20th anniversary walkman;
7. 10/100 Mb Ethernet card;
8. ATA 100 raid card;
9. 3 parallel ATA 66 cables;
10. Creative Soundblaster microphone from 1995;
11. Broken Sony earbuds;
12. Sennheiser earbuds;
13. Sweex 128MB MP3 player with earbuds;
14. RF-plug male;
15. Palm 16MB SD Card;
16. Compaq two button ps/2 ball mouse;
17. Trust mouse to go with their touch pad;
18. Logitech 3 button ps/2 ball mouse;
19. Logitech 2 button ps/2 ball mouse;
20. Logitech scroll wheel usb optical mouse;
21. small 2 button usb optical mouse;
22. Parallel Cable;
23. RS 232C to Parallel adapter;
24. RF TV splitter;
25. 6.8GB Maxtor HDD;
26. USB charge stand;
27. 3 uk-style power cords, one with a 3A fuse;
28. 2 grounded power cords;
29. USB WIFI access point;
30. DV-in enabler for Sony handycams;
31. Bose holding etui for their horrible in-earbuds;
32. USB enclosure for hard drives, including 30 GB HDD and power adapter;
33. USB enclosure for hard drives, including 80 GB HDD and power adapter;
34. Two HDD enclosures with mounting brackets for swapping hard drives in a PC-Tower, including a 8GB and a 20GB hard drive
35. four-way USB hub with power adapter;
36. 15 meter of telephone wire;
37. telephone wire with ethernet-style plug and wall socket plug;
38. USB to PS/2 adapter;
39. 42 3 1/4" diskettes;
40. Wall mounting bracket for original "ufo" Airport;
41. Din 4-pin to Din 4-pin cable;

That's the lot. And when we go through other boxes and shelves, I'm sure that we'll find a lot more obsolete hardware. Still it feels weird to do the spring cleaning in the summer holidays.

Zaaf