The End of an Era?

I finally did it. I got rid of my old computers. Three computer cases, basically fully tower systems, have been haunting me for years. The first was the first computer that was fully mine, and was upgraded a couple times. Then I upgraded to the second tower, which also saw a number of different upgrades. Finally I bought the third tower. That was last upgraded in 2003. And these towers have stuck with me since then. I had good intentions of doing stuff with them, like getting them in working order and selling them. And then as time passed, I thought of just giving them away. And I never did.

When Luta and I moved in July we decided we needed to get rid of stuff, including our computers (we had acquired laptops for each of us at that point). We tried selling her Dell and my custom PC's at a garage sale, but no one took the bait. We got rid of her Dell to one of her coworkers a month or so after we moved, and I have been trying since then to sell my stuff on Craigslist and Cheapcycle, to no avail. So, finally, I posted them for free, and got a dozen emails over night! Third try found someone who would pick them up (he tinkers with old systems and gets them working, then gives them to people who can't afford new systems).

So tonight he came by, took my three towers, 19" CRT monitor, old printer, and some other archeological finds (like my parallel port Zip drive). And they are all gone. I no longer have computer stuff haunting me. No longer the excuse that I'm going to do something with them someday.

Well, I still have a few cables I didn't want to part with. Never know when you might need some of that stuff! But otherwise, it feels like the end of an era.