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Thread ID: 143749 2017-04-01 03:32:00 I have a box of old ribbon cables for floppy and hard drives - Throw away? Digby (677) PC World Chat
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1433623 2017-04-01 03:32:00 Hi guys
I am a bit of a horder (not like on tv, but I am always reluctant to throw stuff away

I have a box of ribbon cables for floppy, dvd, and hard drives.

I suppose I should throw them away as they will never be wanted ?

What do you think ?
Digby (677)
1433624 2017-04-01 03:42:00 Tossed all mine 7 years ago pctek (84)
1433625 2017-04-01 09:38:00 Put them in a box with sccsi , IDE, parallel printer cables, null modem cables, serial cables, phone extension cables
mark it "to throw away in 6 months"
apsattv (7406)
1433626 2017-04-01 10:14:00 Put them in a box with sccsi , IDE, parallel printer cables, null modem cables, serial cables, phone extension cables
mark it "to throw away in 6 months"

Or" tomorrow" will have the same effect!
Laggard (17509)
1433627 2017-04-01 19:50:00 Or" tomorrow" will have the same effect!

...and they will still be there this time next year! :banana:banana
kenj (9738)
1433628 2017-04-01 20:38:00 Put them in a box with sccsi , IDE, parallel printer cables, null modem cables, serial cables, phone extension cables
mark it "to throw away in 6 months"

Yes I have lots of those too!
And 40 meg hard drives!
Digby (677)
1433629 2017-04-01 20:40:00 Or I could start a museum?

Or send them to Zimbabwe?
Digby (677)
1433630 2017-04-02 23:48:00 Give them to the local P addicts.
They will sit there for hours stripping out all the copper , to sell for a few $
1101 (13337)
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