I keep meaning to sort through my box'o'PSUs, cables, drives, and bits and dump the oldest machines from the closet as well, but keep having other things to do

Move to Michigan.  It's real incentive to get rid of crap. 

I have those speakers

I threw out a large bulk of cables once.  It had some old stuff in it that I 'knew' I'd never us again.    Then I got stuck with an old TV and I needed all my cables to survive a weekend, but had none of them (actually I was able to manage, but that isn't the point.  It would have been much easier if I kept my trash)

Hold off on being happy until you turn it on and it doesn't 'splode.

I just rebuilt my system ... I have the same problem ... I have a habit of

collecting old hardware and stick it on the shelf for future use. 

I also, update my hardware WAY TOO much ...   I figure it's time

to slow down ...  Most likely I'll clean up my older hardware as soon

as I get some free time ..  

i guess im one of the tidy people..ive nothing to throw away. well i did give away unused package of DVD+R disks to friend..

and BTW thats even an worst pc than my self made mini pc

I've got about 3 boxes to go through.  I have a hard time getting rid of anything.  I may need that...

My wife and I had significant "discussions" on my keeping the Apple ][c while preparing to move.  I won because I could prove that it worked.    (I also got to enjoy playing MS Flight Simulator)

Ah, MS Flight Simulator... The proof that even Apples are IBM compatible

BTW, I have 4 gigs of ram in my new machine and... the disturbing thing is, I have more than that in my box-o-ram. I have a 1GB DDR2 stick three 512MB DDR2 sticks, two 256MB DDR1 sticks, eight 128MB sticks of varying generations and, half a dozen 32s and 16s. About 80% of what I listed doesn't work. About 40% of those are obviously disfucntional, being cracked, melted or whatever. OK, I think it's time I go get rid of my stuff. And it's fitting, too, since tomorrow it's the Three Wise Men... I'll go present gifts to the trash bin

I think everyone has this problem. My dad threw out the first computer he bought the other day, and I had to stop him from trying to salvage a 2 GB hard drive. "This cost me £180". We did get some handy drive bay screws out of it though. "Should I keep a floppy drive? What if my other floppy drives break and no-one sells them anymore?", "It's true, you might never be able to use your Windows 95 emergeancy boot disk again!"

486 dx2 66, the height of technology for a little while.

Of course I can't really talk - there's still a Commodore 64 with a broken power brick in my wardrobe.

I am envious of all you people who had 486s and Commodores and... earlier stuff... I'm such a late bloomer 

It wasn't my stuff, but I just cleaned out the basement storage area at work. I don't know enough about old electronics to tell you exactly what that crap was, but I know it was obsolete in the 70s and some jackass kept it when we changed buildings 12 years ago. Piles of 5 1/4 floppies, stand-alone drives for them, cables for things no one remembers, a section of cabinets badly burned in an explosion 10 years ago (sadly, that's not a joke), a gas chromatograph that's too radioactive to throw away but too expensive to dispose of properly, records of faculty searches from 20 years ago, and more.

To give some perspective, we have chemicals from the 40s and glassware from the 1890s that people just won't let us throw away. Unfortunately, the state "ethics" rules (lol Illinois) won't let us sell the stuff on eBay, where it's worth quite a bit.