[FITM = Former IT Manager]

This office was part vintage hardware graveyard, part IT library.
Once we'd gone through the books sorting out which belong to FITM and packing them up for him, the next step was to sort through reams of printouts and notes to try and work out what they were and whether we needed to keep them. The approach was "If we don't know what it is, we'd better keep it".
Then I had to go through 3 large cardboard boxes full of floppies, to work out which we could chuck and which we could reuse (there always seems to be a floppy famine at our place).
Next it was onto piles of CDs.
There were 2 metal cabinets full of software, CDs and manuals. Some of the stuff in here was comically vintage. Manuals for Word 3 on a Mac from 1987! A manual for a primitive laptop that looked more like a desktop with a flip up screen bolted on. Interesting stuff, but it had to go.
The guys from the services department started clearing some of the metal shelving of old old macs and busted monitors. This still leaves about a dozen (probably broken) printers and a pile of Amstrad 33mhz base units. There are also 2 cabinets and a table full of strange bits of wire, connectors, adapters, modems etc etc.

To be continued...