Old Technology

This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on August 7, 2005). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Does anyone out there have any need for an official Windows 2000 Professional install CD, complete with serial number? Update: Eight minutes later, it’s spoken for. You people scare me. ;)

As part of an initial stab at starting to weed out the junk from my apartment in preparation for my upcoming move, I’ve finally given up on any hope of resurrecting the PC that’s been doing nothing more than holding my desk down for the last year and junked it. This leaves me with the OS install disc, which is useless to me.

Admittedly, in these days of XP and the upcoming Longhorn Vista (in, what, another three years or something?), a Win2kPro install probably isn’t that valuable even to Windows users. Even so, I thought I’d toss this out there just on the off chance someone could use it. First come, first serve, just let me know where to mail it and I’ll send it your way.

If I don’t get a taker in, oh, a week or so, I’ll just toss it.

iTunesLove Your Enemies” by Burroughs, William S. from the album Dead City Radio (1990, 1:13).

6 thoughts on “Old Technology”

  1. I just got lucky then. I swear I’m not just stalking you. No, really, I’m not.

    innocent whistle

  2. I have this amusing and sad image in my head of you having so little to do during the day that you just sit at your computer, hitting the ‘refresh’ button in your browser every five minutes, just to see if maybe, maybe, I’ve put anything new up yet.

  3. I hope you scavenged the working parts out of it?

    As far as I could tell, there were no working parts. An ancient CD-ROM (not even a writer of any sort) that hadn’t been reading CDs in a while, a couple of hard drives that had been giving me errors before they finally quit and killed the machine, a sound card that I’d never managed to get working properly…there may have been something on the motherboard that was still functional, but I had no way of finding that out.

    It was a junker.

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