{"id":1737,"date":"2013-04-24T21:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2013-04-24T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:00:57","slug":"whats-in-the-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/whats-in-the-attic\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s In The Attic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent comment by sister-in-law Becky got me thinking: What do\u00a0Pam and I \u00a0have in our garage attic?<\/p>\n<p>Quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>First, an anecdote. Remember microfiche? When Pam first proposed working from home a couple days a week the question of microfiche came up as many of the records Pam works with are on them. &#8220;No Problemo,&#8221; says Pam to her boss. &#8220;Jer has a microfiche reader in the garage attic.&#8221; This statment was greeted with a silence. After all, why would anyone have a microfiche reader in their attic? &#8220;Jer used to get his service manuals on microfiche and bought a reader to use them.&#8221; So now Pam can, and often does,\u00a0use microfiche at home.<\/p>\n<p>So what else do we have?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Old Macintosh computers and printers. At least 3 computers, including a IIFX, the most expensive Macintosh that Apple ever produced. My first Mac with a built-in hard drive, a Mac SE-30, in it&#8217;s orginal box. (1986.)<\/li>\n<li>Christmas decorations.<\/li>\n<li>Spare propane tank regulator.<\/li>\n<li>Old books, mostly Macintosh related.<\/li>\n<li>Lamps, including a banker&#8217;s lamp and a floor lamp. Baker&#8217;s lamp needs a new shade. (&#8220;I&#8217;ll get around to it&#8230;&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>Toys. Felicity&#8217;s and Toby both have &#8220;someday we&#8217;ll give them&#8221; collections, which include metal trucks, 3-d puzzles, Pound Puppies, logos, posters, and games of various types.<\/li>\n<li>Doll\u00a0collections. Pam&#8217;s Barbies and some of Felicity&#8217;s collection.<\/li>\n<li>High-schood yearbooks and momentos. Pam and\u00a0I\u00a0both have some of this stuff.<\/li>\n<li>My\u00a035mm slides, negatives, Super-8 film, projector, and other camera and photography gear. Several boxes worth, including several Kodak Carousel trays and a front-silvered mirror. (Not familiar with front-silvered mirors?\u00a0 Thats what the internet is for&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Computer accessories. 3.5 inc h computer disks, various cables, and\u00a0SCSI hard drives. (Antiques!)<\/li>\n<li>Motorcycle parts and pieces such as saddlebags and windshields.<\/li>\n<li>A 5-gallon water tank from an old trailer. (?)<\/li>\n<li>Fans in the winter, electric heaters in the summer.<\/li>\n<li>A roll of foam, used at one point under a sleeping bag.<\/li>\n<li>Guitar case with no guitar in it. (?)<\/li>\n<li>An IBM Selectric typewriter. Works fine.<\/li>\n<li>The storage compartment screen from the Subaru.<\/li>\n<li>An extra kitchen table from\u00a0myAunt Gina. (Toby used it in his apartment until he moved.)<\/li>\n<li>Old clothing patterns.<\/li>\n<li>Kid&#8217;s costumes. At least 6 boxes worth.<\/li>\n<li>An antenna pole. The kind you would put next to a house to put a TV antenna up.<\/li>\n<li>Two\u00a0Coleman coolers and a traveling refigerator. Refrigerator plugs into a 12v outlet and keeps food cool. (Pam uses it to keep canned dog food fresh on long trips.)<\/li>\n<li>Luggage, knap sacks, other travel bags including a couple old backpacks.<\/li>\n<li>Flooring left over from doing the master bedroom floor. (That was 7 years ago.)<\/li>\n<li>Old child&#8217;s sled, now considered a Christmas ornament.<\/li>\n<li>An old steel bed frame. No headboard, just the frame.<\/li>\n<li>Until recently, 3 boxes of fabric and 2 boxes of Blueware.<\/li>\n<li>Myron and Lorraine (Pam&#8217;s parents) \u00a0memorabelia.<\/li>\n<li>A couple of storm windows.<\/li>\n<li>My collection of &#8217;60s Hot Rod and other car-related magazines.<\/li>\n<li>Miscellaneous &#8220;stuff.&#8221; (Quite a bit of it.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The above list is not complete and certainly does not give a good idea of the volume of stuff we&#8217;ve kept. I managed to get a couple \u00a0photos to give some scale to this collection.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1743\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1743\" alt=\"West end of the garage attic. Bed frame is at bottom left.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20100-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20100-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20100-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">West end of the garage attic. Bed frame is at bottom left.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1744\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1744\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1744 \" title=\"attic-2\" alt=\"East end of attic. End of kitchen table (brown) visible at left.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20101-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20101-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20101-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">East end of attic. End of kitchen table (brown) visible at left.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We have to clean our attic.<\/p>\n<p>Pam has already floated the idea of grabbing a bunch of stuff\u00a0 and moving it along, either through yard sales, donations, or\u00a0 trips to the dump. Anyone need a spare propane tank regulator?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent comment by sister-in-law Becky got me thinking: What do\u00a0Pam and I \u00a0have in our garage attic? Quite a bit. First, an anecdote. Remember microfiche? When Pam first proposed working from home a couple days a week the question of microfiche came up as many of the records Pam works with are on them. 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