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Richard Kettlewell ([personal profile] ewx) wrote2012-11-25 08:38 pm
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Take away our computer junk

Miscellaneous bits. Most have not been used in years, so no idea if they work.

  • 3 button Logitech serial mouse (M-CE15-)
  • 3 button Logitech PS/2 mouse (M-S35)
  • 3 button Logitech PS/2 mouse (M-CAA43)
  • 2 button Microsoft PS/2 mouse
  • Optical Logitech USB mouse with scroll wheel (M-BJ58)
  • Optical USB mouse with scroll wheel
  • Modem cable
  • Longer modem cable
  • Mystery cable: 9 pin 'D' female to what looks like a 3.5mm jack. I have no idea what this was for.
  • 4 PS/2 mouse to serial port adapters
  • Serial mouse to PS/2 port adapter
  • Two AT keyboard to PS/2 port adapters
  • USB mouse to PS/2 port adapter
  • Three ethernet cables that only support 100Mbit/s (two at a meter or so, one longer)
  • Linksys LNE100TX 10/100 PCI ethernet card
  • 3Com 3C905C-TX-M 10/100 PCI ethernet card
  • PC keyboard with AT connector
  • PC keyboard with PS/2 connector

Ancient computer. Hasn't been used for years.

  • Mini-tower case
  • External ports: serial, parallel, sound, USB.
  • MSI MS-6385 motherboard (3 PCI, AGP, 2 IDE).
  • Unknown CPU
  • Unknown RAM
  • No drives of any kind.

Old computer. Was in use until recently.

  • Mini-tower case
  • External ports: LAN, VGA, sound, USB.
  • ABit NF-M2S motherboard (2 PCI; 1 PCIe x1; 1 PCIe x16; 4 SATA)
  • AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
  • 1GB RAM
  • CD ROM drive
  • No hard disk.

You collect from King's Hedges (or Station Road, for the transportable things).

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[personal profile] gerald_duck 2012-11-25 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Out on a limb, here — I don't suppose either of the keyboards is Cherry or Keytronic, is it?
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2012-11-25 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope - no user-facing branding at all in fact l-)

[identity profile] sweh.livejournal.com 2012-11-25 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mystery cable: 9 pin 'D' female to what looks like a 3.5mm jack. I have no idea what this was for."

Serial port cable for a TiVo ?
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[personal profile] gerald_duck 2012-11-25 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Actually, quite a few things used to use 3.5mm jacks for RS232. Wikipedia says "some miniaturized electronics, particularly graphing calculators and hand-held amateur and two-way radio equipment". Indeed, that's reminded me specifically where I've seen such a serial port in recent years: [livejournal.com profile] kaberett's Casio calculator. (-8
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2012-11-25 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Never had a Tivo. But could be something along those lines.

[identity profile] mjg59.livejournal.com 2012-11-26 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
Old digital cameras used them.

[identity profile] ian norton (from livejournal.com) 2012-11-27 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
could be the serial cable for a Texas Instruments calculator too
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2012-11-27 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I think MJG has it 'dc215 serial cable' (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=dc215+serial+cable&tbm=isch) reveals the cable in the junkpile.

[identity profile] damerell.livejournal.com 2012-11-29 10:42 am (UTC)(link)
Can I have the "old" computer, please? I think bits of it are newer than rei. Will collect...
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2012-11-29 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
OK. When can you collect?

[identity profile] senji.livejournal.com 2012-11-29 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Is the Optical MS mouse one of these (http://forums.autodesk.com/autodesk/attachments/autodesk/23/29455/1/Microsoft%20IntelliMouse%20Optical.jpg)?
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[identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com 2012-11-29 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
No, in fact [as now edited] it's not MS branded at all, I assume a thinko when entering the long list of mice.