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In preparation for my eventual demise I have been trying to cut down on some of my treasures. The crux of the problem is she identifies any thing over a year old as my junk or usually just stuff. The two things she fears most are 1) I die and she is stuck with 86 years of items I deem valuable 2) I die before my dog. That happened because a year ago I went to the lake without my faithful canine companion. The dog (a 70 # Doberman spent all day wanting out to go to the garage and see the boat was gone or wanting in to go look out every window in the house and whine) or 3) I will be dead but that is less of a concern than the 1 & 2. Well tonight I just ran across these buried in a corner of my office and have made the decision to trash them. She was not impressed that this was all I was getting rid of today.
 

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Cambridge University has been archiving old floppy discs to preserve any valuable information before they become completely unreadable. They might be interested in that software because a big challenge is having the various programs to read the different floppies.

www.lib.cam.ac.uk

Future Nostalgia: Safeguarding the knowledge of floppy disks

Funded by British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust Small Grant
www.lib.cam.ac.uk www.lib.cam.ac.uk
 
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dwco5051 said:
Well tonight I just ran across these buried in a corner of my office and have made the decision to trash them. She was not impressed that this was all I was getting rid of today.
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Have boxed sets of both AutoCad R9 and R10 (MS DOS 2.0) in my bottom desk drawer.
 
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dingbat said:
Have boxed sets of both AutoCad R9 and R10 (MS DOS 2.0) in my bottom desk drawer.
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About a year or so ago I tossed almost a shoe box full of 5.25 floppys. This Spring all of the 3.5's. A lot of versions of Acad and other programs plus data and backup discs. After being retired for 23 years nobody calls me anymore with questions.
 
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dwco5051 said:
In preparation for my eventual demise I have been trying to cut down on some of my treasures. The crux of the problem is she identifies any thing over a year old as my junk or usually just stuff. The two things she fears most are 1) I die and she is stuck with 86 years of items I deem valuable 2) I die before my dog. That happened because a year ago I went to the lake without my faithful canine companion. The dog (a 70 # Doberman spent all day wanting out to go to the garage and see the boat was gone or wanting in to go look out every window in the house and whine) or 3) I will be dead but that is less of a concern than the 1 & 2. Well tonight I just ran across these buried in a corner of my office and have made the decision to trash them. She was not impressed that this was all I was getting rid of today.
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You never know when you are going to need Autosketch! I have an external disc reader/writer if you need to borrow it ... LOL!

I would suggest that YOU keep moving before she identifies YOU as junk and tosses you!
 
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dwco5051 said:
About a year or so ago I tossed almost a shoe box full of 5.25 floppys. This Spring all of the 3.5's. A lot of versions of Acad and other programs plus data and backup discs. After being retired for 23 years nobody calls me anymore with questions.
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I've still got quite the floppy selection, even windows 3.2, and 95 and NT, plus OS2 and Os2 Warp installs. About ready to ditch them.

Old install CDs are next, for anything I no longer use. Or that I don't have an OS to run them on.

The old supermac with a huge software set installed under the desk hasn't been fired up for 5 years, that's on the list to go as well.

Working to replace the desk in there with a reloading table, rather than using clamp-on bases when i want to load empty brass, they'll all be mounted thru a 2-1/2 inch butcher block top.

I replaced the office furniture with an electronics bench a couple years ago.
 
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metalchewy said:
I've still got quite the floppy selection, even windows 3.2, and 95 and NT, plus OS2 and Os2 Warp installs. About ready to ditch them.

Old install CDs are next, for anything I no longer use. Or that I don't have an OS to run them on.

The old supermac with a huge software set installed under the desk hasn't been fired up for 5 years, that's on the list to go as well.

Working to replace the desk in there with a reloading table, rather than using clamp-on bases when i want to load empty brass, they'll all be mounted thru a 2-1/2 inch butcher block top.

I replaced the office furniture with an electronics bench a couple years ago.
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When people today complain about slow wifi they probably never had a system like this. That would have been my "state of the art" system years ago. 110/300 baud switchable depending on the dial modem on the other end. The only difference was my modem was orange rather than green display.acoustic modem.jpg
 
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