I am become Finn, collector of cruft...

[waider]

I used love the idea, when I first read Neuromancer, of standard tech taken off the shelves and jacked up to do things it wasn't intended to do; Cowboy hackers who surfed the net using hardware assembled from whatever they could find and all that sort of thing.
Of note in this picture: the computer is a laptop, albeit missing its screen; the LCD backlight flaked out, so I took off the entire lid, and I'm using an unframed flat-panel LCD in its place. Both the laptop and the LCD have speakers, but they're small and tinny, so I have a set of Sony SPS-P3 walkman speakers which contrive to create some bass out of the æther. In the general vicinity you may also see:

• Palm Vx
• Sagem My-V55
• Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro, connected via Rockfire Game/USB adapter
• Sony NW-S23
• hotplug DVD/CD drive
• 5.25in drive
• 2MBit wireless card
• Two hard drives; 4GB and ~800MB
• Dismantled Quickshot-clone Joystick
• Motorola-brand Frisbee
• Random wires and stuff in anti-static bags

The bothersome part is that all this stuff is in my bedroom, which I had for some time kept clear of all geek toys.

Comments

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Cruftastic!

My palm Vx died; I really need to replace it.