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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Nov 8, 2009 19:10:25 GMT -6
I continued a decadel purge today. This house clearing started in the basement back in the summer, today I hit the storage area of the garage. Climbing into the rafters, I started digging through and pitching over 20 years of business and household records, files, and miscellaneous junk (keeping what is needed for tax purposes and anything else from about 2005 on). But I digress...
I have in my possession the following. A copy of; WordPerfect for Windows v6.0 (circa 1995) on 13 3.5" floppies; AutoCAD v8 (also circa 1995) on about 30 3.5" floppies; and best of all WordPerfect Office, a DOS shell of utilities that predates Microsoft even thinking of using the term "Office" on five 5.25" floppies. In the hardware department, about a half dozen LPT cables, and several SCSI cables with terminators.
Anyone want?
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 8, 2009 19:13:45 GMT -6
You don't live in a house, you live in a time capsule.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Nov 8, 2009 19:34:04 GMT -6
I also have a couple neat little boards you slip in your computer that adds TWO of the new fangled USB 1 ports, and for those who are really into antiques, a 20Mb Quantum Plus HardCard.
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Post by Tex on Nov 8, 2009 19:37:25 GMT -6
I am going through the same thing at the office. After that, I intend to get rid of half my clothes, half my books, 2/3 of my tools and a couple of boats. Just trying to rid myself of some clutter.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 8, 2009 19:37:44 GMT -6
Throw in 8" floppies and you've got yourself what they call a deal.
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Nov 8, 2009 19:39:52 GMT -6
How about a ream of line printer paper, not micro perferated unfortunately
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 8, 2009 19:46:19 GMT -6
You may want to save that for gift wrapping. The holidays are coming up, you know.
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Post by Chicago Jake on Nov 8, 2009 20:38:43 GMT -6
I found an old Epson dot-matrix printer in back of a closet recently. Pitched it. But I saved the Zip drive (parallel port version) just in case.
You got any FORTRAN compilers in there? I could use one.
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 8, 2009 20:47:29 GMT -6
Never had a dot-matrix printer -- daisy wheel only.
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Post by Tex on Nov 9, 2009 8:26:19 GMT -6
The damn thing was slow and noisy, but the best letter quality printer that I ever had was a daisy wheel with proportional spacing and some kind of one-use ribbon. Teamed up with some high cotton content letterhead, it would do beautiful work.
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Post by Irish Stu on Nov 9, 2009 10:37:44 GMT -6
In my industry we used to use Syquest discs to move artwork around between suppliers, customers and our own Macs. We used to keep a log of exactly who had each one and make damn sure we got them back again.
Simon
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Post by ♥ COVID-19♥ on Nov 9, 2009 11:09:04 GMT -6
I used to use those, too, many years ago when I worked on Macs. We used it for transferring assets for multimedia applications we were developing at the time.
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Post by nolaflacav on Nov 9, 2009 13:52:27 GMT -6
In my industry we used to use Syquest discs to move artwork around between suppliers, customers and our own Macs. We used to keep a log of exactly who had each one and make damn sure we got them back again. Simon We still have a working Syquest but have never used it for several years. Want to swap some data? |
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Post by Ardbeg... innit on Nov 11, 2009 6:50:15 GMT -6
Have not started the technology purge inside the office yet, but I do have an Exabyte Tape Drive and several 250Mb cartridges (if only they had lived up to their name!), and a Mountain Laser Disk drive with several 5.2Gb two sided optical disk cartridges (got that about 12 years ago, talk about ahead of their time, but the damn things were so flaky that I spent half my time using it on the phone with tech support, and the cartridges were about $100 apiece)
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