Our flat is close to bursting at the seams so I’ve been ruthlessly chucking out defunct technology and nostalgic media (as regular readers may know I find things like old blank tapes and floppy disks intensely nostalgic)

I’ve had this since I was thirteen or fourteen, it’s what I discovered Sisters Of Mercy and John Peel and Sonic Youth on, it’s served as speakers for many many computers (3 different Amigas, 4 or 5 PCs) and not a few iPods, discmen (discmans?) and minidisc players. It’s been lugged around Europe and a variety of festival grounds campsites and barns in the Peak District to provide sound tracks to holidays and assorted teenage kicks.

The hole in the eject key is from where Baec (sp?) drove a screw into it when the tape mechanism stopped working for the 3rd trapping a Goats tape that Paul had made me in there the adaptation allowed us to get the tape out manually. Note: it was one of those one behind the other dual cassette things which seemed hopelessly futuristic when I first saw one at Mark Bigg’s house in about 1989, his brother had one one in a competition and we were all tremendously jealous.

The final straw came when the left speaker finally cut out about 4 or 5 months back (I was using it as an amp for my drum machine) and I couldn’t fix it (integrated circuit failure of some kind I think) It’s hard to justify keeping such a beast around when you can’t even use it as a tough amp/ speakers for taking camping.

Also, all my old Amiga disks. It probably seems a bit odd to get sentimental about old computer disks but I found myself scanning them all into my computer yesterday before they were pulled ot bits for recycling/ throwing away, even optical media is beginning to seem old these days, in 20 years it’s gogin to seem really odd that we carried around data in 720Kb chunks (Double Sided Double Density! Five Complete Games!).

Also for the bin are 100 odd issues of 2000AD and a nearly complete runs of Toxic!* and Tank Girl if anyone would like to claim them.

*reading that wikipedia page it’s amazing that Button Man and Al’s Baby were turned down for the comic as they were (IMO) among the best British strips of the early 90’s.