Computer magpie

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I think I've accumulated far too much random hardware over the years. While searching for a PCI IDE card for a friend, I found the following:

• A pair of thick 2.5" IDE hard disks (maybe 1GB each?)
• A thinner 2.5" IDE hard disk
• Three 3.5" IDE hard disks (smallest is 4GB - remember, that used to be massive)
• A bag of SIMMs
• A bag of DIMMs, plus a SO-DIMM or two
• An ISA sound card
• An ISA voice modem (those were the days...)
• A PCI graphics card (I used to use that for a second monitor)
• A couple of AGP graphics cards
• A PCI sound card
• An AMD Duron, probably a Duron 800
• A small PLCC form factor chip with a "P=" foil sticker on it (no idea what it's far, but it was removed from an old motherboard before binning the computer)
• Netgear WG602v2 wireless access point
• Netgear DG834Gv2 ADSL router
• Netgear WGE101 wireless bridge
• KVM switch (not a Belkin, and so actually works properly)
• Processor upgrade kit (originally for a Pentium 133Mhz system)
• And the PCI IDE card I was looking for

And that's just in the two crates I searched in! I swear, they breed when you're not looking.