{"id":3374,"date":"2012-07-16T00:01:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2012-07-15T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:32:31","slug":"i-hang-onto-this-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"I Hang Onto This Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

I swapped printers the other day. Moved one from hither to thither. As I did, I opened the drawer where I keep printer manuals and discs. And in that drawer, I beheld a raft of old SIMMs — memory cards from computers long gone.
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\nIt was easy to purge the old printer stuff. Manuals and discs for printers I no longer own were tossed out without a thought. But the SIMMs? They’re difficult to get rid of.<\/p>\n

Intrigued by my collection, I visited my computer boneyard and found even more SIMMs sitting on the shelf. Some of them are very, very old.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. My collection of SIMMs.<\/p><\/div>\n

Honestly, if I were to upgrade memory on one of my current systems (and I usually don’t have to because I always max out memory when I buy a computer), I’d probably buy new memory. In fact, I know<\/em> I’d buy new memory. So, once again, why do I hang onto these old SIMMs?<\/p>\n

One of my Facebook friends, Robert, had this thought to offer:<\/p>\n

It’s hard to throw away something that cost so much and is not broken.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Amen, brother!<\/p>\n

In Figure 1, you’re probably looking at about $2,000 worth of computer memory. Granted, the total is only about 2GB of RAM. (One of those sticks is just 100MB.) Yet, I paid a lot. So why throw it out?<\/p>\n

Well, one problem is that not every computer has the same memory slots.<\/p>\n

Damn those manufacturers!<\/p>\n

So you can’t really pull memory out of one computer and plug it into another. Even the same brand, same model of PC sometimes use different internal hardware. It sucks!<\/p>\n

Looking forward (which is good), I think a visit to the boneyard is in order to toss out some other one-time expensive gizmos that I apparently hang onto for no reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I swapped printers the other day. Moved one from hither to thither. As I did, I opened the drawer where I keep printer manuals and discs. And in that drawer, I beheld a raft of old SIMMs — memory cards from computers long gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}