I'm basically just looking for ideas for getting my spare computer parts sorted. Right now, they're essentially all just tossed into several boxes with very little sorting or sitting on a shelf (yes, a dozen or two dozen expansion cards stuck in a box at odd angles with no protection other than my half-hearted attempt to not drop them on each other). I've got a box labelled "cables and stuff" which has all the IDE, floppy, USB, power, SCSI, parallel, CD audio cables, plus some fans, case bay covers, old backup tapes and some other random things. Another box has some motherboards in boxes, old hard drives and CDROM drives (in motherboard boxes), an inflatable tube thing for sliding on snow in place of a sled. Another box has a keyboard, some keyboard wrist wrests, a speaker set, some heatsinks, some cables, some fans, a dry-erase board. On my shelves I have hard drives and CDROMs stacked up, plus some more expansion cards and memory modules.
The most organized way I can think of to deal with them is to sort everything and use a small Tupperware-type container for each individual type and have those stacked on a shelf, but that's a lot of plastic containers. There's not enough of any one thing to fill a cardboard box unless I can find a bunch of small ones (hmm...it'd be illegal to get boxes from the USPS and use them for this, right?). I could tie cables together based on type with string, zip ties or twist ties, but then I'd have to undo that every time I wanted one cable. On the other hand, most of this isn't stuff I need access to very often, just often enough to want to get it sorted out and easy to reach (plus so I can rearrange my room a bit.
The most organized way I can think of to deal with them is to sort everything and use a small Tupperware-type container for each individual type and have those stacked on a shelf, but that's a lot of plastic containers. There's not enough of any one thing to fill a cardboard box unless I can find a bunch of small ones (hmm...it'd be illegal to get boxes from the USPS and use them for this, right?). I could tie cables together based on type with string, zip ties or twist ties, but then I'd have to undo that every time I wanted one cable. On the other hand, most of this isn't stuff I need access to very often, just often enough to want to get it sorted out and easy to reach (plus so I can rearrange my room a bit.
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