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Edina, MN - Local resident Ty Coleman, 25, said that he was going
to keep the dead 2.1 GB hard drive he removed from his system "just
in case," because he might need it someday. "I'm
not quite sure what's wrong with it, but I might be able to get some
parts off some of the other drives I have to get it working. Plus,
I paid $250 for the thing, I'm not just going to throw it away," he
said
 A
self-admitted pack rat, Ty has accumulated an awesome selection of
obsolete and non-functioning hardware from 386 SX motherboards to
acoustic coupler modems. The pile, which Ty calls his 'Stack
of Wonder', occupies a large portion of his bedroom in his parents'
basement.
"I used to have them stacked in piles according to what they
were, modems, hard drives, mobos, video cards, but the piles started
falling down, so I just gave up. Now, I just toss it on the
heap. It may look disorganized, but trust me, I know everything
that's in there. Like under those twelve 850 MB Seagate drives
I got off eBay, are some 230 MB Conner drives. I almost used
one of those Conner drives once when I thought my hard drive crashed,
but turns out there was just a disk in the floppy drive."
"My friends tease me and call the pile, 'Mount Loserville'
but you never know, I might decide to put together a Linux box out
of some of these parts I have," he said motioning to the Stack
of Wonder. "Of course I'll have to go through those motherboards
to figure out which ones still work." When questioned
further Ty admitted that he'd been talking about a building a Linux
box for 3 years now, and really didn't have any intentions of doing
it.
Ty couldn't remember why he had so many reset switches, but he was
happy to know that he was prepared in case he had 75 in a row go
bad.
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