March 07, 2004

What I did tonight...

I got sucked into some housecleaning, and I was organizing a catch-all box that I use to keep odd and ends in -- you know, like crossover cables, token ring network adapters, ps/2 adapters, a miniature screwdriver set, old cue:cats, various hardware drivers, AOL discs encompassing versions 5 through 8, various linux boot disks (a 2.4.6 kernel recompile in fact!) and about 8 inches worth of floppy disks...

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I have the disks in a pile on my bookshelf right now. Even though I know they've gone bad, I just don't have the heart to throw them out.

Posted by joy at March 7, 2004 12:29 AM | TrackBack
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What would you even use them for, anyway? The last time I used a floppy disk was to boot up a firewall system which I didn't have a CD-ROM drive for.

Posted by: fluffy at March 7, 2004 02:39 PM

That's all you had? I through out five shoeboxes full about a year and a half ago, and just recently discovered another large box full in the attic.

I through out an install set for OS/2 Warp that alone was a bigger stack of disks then that! (Over forty disks for one OS...)

Posted by: ucblockhead at March 7, 2004 02:52 PM

I don't even want to tell you how many 5-1/4" diskette I have in storage.

However on my cubicle wall is one of my original 8" floppy disks, in it's sleeve, inside a plastic box that held about 12 of the beasties.

I love 20-somethings walking in and saying 'what's that thing?'.

(I still have a program on punch cards, but I don't want people thinking I am really old!

Posted by: Charlie on the PA Turnpike at March 7, 2004 08:40 PM

I have 5 1/4"s too with some yet to be famous novels (most likely in Word Perfect 3.0 haha)

Posted by: dianna at March 9, 2004 12:43 AM

i have two fifty-foot cat 5 cables that are relics of college apartment life. i have wireless now, but i still can't throw them out, the pack rat that i am.

Posted by: Particleman at March 9, 2004 10:17 PM