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| Thread ID: 97565 | 2009-02-20 05:01:00 | Keeping Old Stuff | Bantu (52) | PC World Chat |
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| 749599 | 2009-02-20 08:43:00 | --- In 1983 a junior Paris bank employee failed to turn up at his office. The police forced the door of his apartment only to find it blocked by what turned out to be a solid mass of garbage, which filled the entire apartment to within less than a metre of the ceiling. They found the bank employee lying under a blanket in a little dip at the top. He had died in his sleep. What they publicly categorised as garbage was actually old shoes, old clothes, abandoned suitcases, rags, empty bottles and scrap-paper. The apartment was so full that the collector was obliged to eat, bathe and change elsewhere. To get out the door he had to shift a whole section. Each item had been cleaned, washed and brushed before being added to the collection. He was forty-nine and died of natural causes. It may have been gases emanating from his clothes and newspapers... --- Excerpt from the entry for Collectors in "The Doubter's Companion" by John Ralston Saul |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 749600 | 2009-02-20 09:49:00 | Yes I have a cupboard full of old software and dead hardware. Even have the Amiga version of the game Populus on a 3 1/2" floppy, don't know why as I don't have an Amiga to run it on anymore. Got rid of that 11 years ago. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 749601 | 2009-02-20 10:05:00 | Started with 1981 Ohio Superboard! (It was sold off about 20 years ago.) Still keep dead drives, 5inch floppy drives, old serial cards, ethernet coax etc, but I do grudgingly throw out a few bits each year in the inorganic collection! | coldot (6847) | ||
| 749602 | 2009-02-20 22:11:00 | If Maryann were to throw out any clapped out parts, the first would probably be ME. PJ :horrified | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 749603 | 2009-02-20 23:24:00 | Just wondered if I am the only one that keeps old hardware/software etc even dead items like old HDD's, CD-Roms, manuals etc. Examples:- DOS, Win 3.1, their box and manuals etc, 2x CD-Rom, Cards of all sorts, serial cards, ide cards of all sorts scsi etc, cables galore etc etc etc. Just talking to someone in another thread about it. I have a heap of big plastic boxes of old stuff I hang on to, I have no idea why I just do. It has now partially taken over part of a spare room in our house as well. Anyone else have this "keeping things" obsession or is it just me? Me too. hehe |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 749604 | 2009-02-21 00:10:00 | I think I still have a Iomega Zip drive lying around downstairs, along with a few Zip disks (at least one of them is a 250MB!!! Wow!) | johcar (6283) | ||
| 749605 | 2009-02-21 00:43:00 | Nothing wrong with hanging on to it. Look at the prices old stuff fetches on Ebay and Craigslist. Maybe have to hang on to for a few hundred years but it will get value over time. Luckily there are people who put stuff aside instead of tossing it and their descendants reap the rewards later on. I Just throw computer stuff in a box and put in the roof |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 749606 | 2009-02-21 02:44:00 | Anyone else have this "keeping things" obsession or is it just me? I have a ZX81 in the shop window, but its a display. And I have DOS6.22 but I do use it on occasion. Keeping stuff is mainly a guy thing, there's guys all over the place here with sheds full of crap. When we moved the first time I allowed husband to keep whatever he could identify. We filled a skip with unknown bits from old exchanges and vehicles and who knows what else.............he slowly accumulates stuff again. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 749607 | 2009-02-21 02:50:00 | Half the stuff you talk about here was released before I was born...:D | Blam (54) | ||
| 749608 | 2009-02-21 03:04:00 | Half the stuff you talk about here was released before I was born...:D LOL Never mind young fella, keep reading and you will learn of our old technology:-) |
Bantu (52) | ||
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