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Fatman's computer room must look like Mission Control at NASA.



Is everything at NASA covered in matted cat hair?



At the moment my computer situation is this ...

1. An old Dell bought in early 2000 with a 15Gb and 10Gb harddisks hanging off of it because it was only designed to hold 1 harddisk running Windows 1998 and Windows 2000, respectively. It sits on a night stand next to my main computer platform.

2. An older Dell laptop running Windows ME. It sits on a stand to the left of the TVs.

3. A newer HP laptop running Windows XP. It sits on a stand to the right of the TVs.

4. An HP Media Center with 350Gb drive running Windows Vista Ultimate. This is the main PC.

The main PC lives on a interest trapezoidal open computer desk I got from Staples a few years back. It consists of 4 shelves supported by four poles, with a sliding keyboard tray attached under the second and largest shelf

The Tower and the main component of the speaker system live on the lowest shelf with the cable modem and the hub. Two large towers of burned regular DVDs live there with the accessories for my digital camera along with 7 or 8 older different external hard disks which range in size from 150 to 500 Gbs. On top of the PC is an external DVD burner.

On the next shelf over the keyboard pullout lives the large wide screen monitor. Also on this level is a variety of crap, office supplies [pens, pencils, many different colored sharpies, several scissors, PC tools, can opener, stored standing in coffee cups], dozen of alligator paper clips, partial date buffalo nickels and wheat pennies, foreign coins, hundred of fortunes from cookies of that type, assorted computer parts [media reader, floppy drive, half dozen SD memory cards, AA batteries, half dozen DV tapes, extra mouse], several pairs of broken eyeglasses, a tea tin stuffed with various small paper items and collectables, half dozen burned data disks in cases, checkbooks, a CD lens cleaning disk, parts of a broken VCR remote, various papers, receipts, coupons and notes, toothbrush and dental floss [which also acts as a rubber band holder], unused chopsticks still in paper, my "meds", a dusty cheap pair of sunglasses, a very nice cigar ashtray and two 640Gb external hard disks.

On the next shelf are the speakers, about $85 in rolled change, about $70 in unrolled quarters, about $80 in unrolled dollar coins, various collectable coins, a $50 star note, some computer parts, business cards/expired Metrocards/old credit cards stored standing in a coffee cup, a decorative clock without a battery in it set to 12, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, several tiny notebooks, a few more DV tapes, a cigar lighter, several remotes I don't use often, a little baby airplane type bottle of JW black and a tiny little green ceramic frog from Puerto Rico [called a Coqui].

On the top shelf are 3 boxes of burned DVD/CDs in cases, 1 box of software CDs, about 150 unused CD cases, 15 bound notebooks, a large box of photographs.

On the floor in between all the surge protectors is a tower of 8 500Gb external drives of two different types. Sitting atop this is a 500Gb Maxtor external drive.

To the side on the nightstand that hold the printer in a row of 6 Maxtor 1Tb drives that I call Stonehenge.

On the radiator are towers of burned CDs and DVDs in the containers they came in.

That's basically the computer area. I'd say the whole run, excluding the laptops, is 3' x 10'



There are other older externals stored elsewhere which range from 40Gb to 150Gb, along with 22 Targus 256-CD/DVD albums.
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