No-one warns you how much *dust* there is in them...

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Date: 05 March 2007 11:26:25

I am a software girl. I always have been. My coding is crap compared to most of you lot but really rather good compared to Joe Bloggs On The Street. I can poke around and do Things with command lines and all that sort of stuff.

I've never been comfortable with hardware, though. It seems too...technical. You know-all those little screws and wires and funny-looking intricate metal Bits. I've always been sort of in awe of anyone who can understand all that.

But this morning, I have been on a Voyage of Discovery. I have Wielded the +3 Screwdriver of...Unscrewing and explored the Murky Depths of our old CPU. I have identified:

-The CD drive
-The floppy drive
-The hard drive
-A USB port
-The kettle lead ports and a fan, that are all together in a metal box I'm nto sure I can open
-A weird plastic Bit that I'm quessing is the computer's on/off switch

These things are now all sitting together, on top of another old PC of ours that will probably be my next victim. I also have:

-An assortment of things that are like a lot of little wires in a strip of plastic, that connect to other things using pin plugs
-The gutted CPC, with what I assume is the motherboard welded to the inside of it and looking all...complicated
-A Thing that I probably shouldn't have taken out that used to be plugged into the motherboard, and I suspect might be a sound card or a graphics card
-A whole shitload of screws, and a few funny-looking metal Bits that used to hold things in place and are now just oddly-shaped bits of metal that have been stripped of their raison d'etre

The Plan is to do this to all of the dead CPUs in the house, and then see if we can turn three broken computers into one working one. I suspect that this might be easier said than done.