Subj : Re: Am I the only one dum
To   : vorlon
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Sun Jun 05 2022 02:54:00

-=> On Sat Jun 4 22:27:00 2022, vorlon wrote to ACMEBBS <=-

 >  > I just the other day got a heap of 3.5" DD disk's and have
 >  > started re-forming them for the Amiga and turfing the bad ones
 >  > into the bin....
 >  AC> Don't think I have anything older than some CDR's. There was a time
 >  AC> when I had storage boxes of these. Now...none.
 > 
 > Yeah, us humans tend to think "I'll never need that again", and yet years
 > down the track that is what we go searching for.

Very true! Bad thing is that unless I have an interdimensional storage bin...have no way of being able to keep the stuff. On the other hand...when CD's came along...compared to floppies...seemed like a god-send for not having a bad CD...compared to floppies.
 
 > I got lucky back in 2009, when a place I worked at shut down and a heap
 > of IT gear just went into the bin. I grabbed what I wanted, and one was a
 > heap of disk's etc... Cables, and tools.

In 2013...was working at an elementary school which threw a bunch of software away. Ended up with a shrink wrapped copy of OS/2 4 Warp/Win-OS/2 they were going to throw away. They had no idea of what it was or the use of it. Asked if I could have it & they were happy that I got it. Believe I still have it packed away in the shrink wrap.

For that matter...would've paid a small fee...if needed...since I had bought a non-Win-OS/2 copy of Warp 3.0 from Wal-Mart in the mid-90's. 

.... One good thing about Alzheimer's is you get to meet new people every day.
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