Parting with Old Computers (It’s Dead, Jim)
Last weekend, I threw away a computer. I threw away a computer that I’ve been hanging on to for at least a decade. And the funny thing is, I couldn’t even tell you why I kept it all this time. From the outside, a Dell Dimension looks like a “modern” computer — and by modern I mean that if you passed by one sitting on a shelf, your first response probably wouldn’t be that it belonged in a museum. Instead, I’d expect you to say that you used to have a computer that looked just like it at work (or… (read more)