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| Thread ID: 141757 | 2016-02-19 03:57:00 | Old CDs, floppies - what have you done with them? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1416194 | 2016-02-19 03:57:00 | What have you done with them, still have them? How disposed? We have a microwave box of them . Cheers . . . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1416195 | 2016-02-19 04:02:00 | Have a few floppies still, binned the rest. Same for CDs/DVDs I don't want, just chuck them in the bin. I did blue tack them to my walls for a while but the novelty wore off. You may want to limit how many you throw away at once, rubbish collectors have a weight limit. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1416196 | 2016-02-19 04:29:00 | Break them and dump them | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1416197 | 2016-02-19 04:32:00 | Having a cleanup here, cover CD'S & dvds go in the bin. I just threw out about 250. Including a huge stack of brand new unopened ones. You can take them out of their cases/ packaging as those are recyclable. Have not used or burnt a cd or DVD in 5 years. They are obsolete in my opinion |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 1416198 | 2016-02-19 04:43:00 | I shred the ones I no longer need | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1416199 | 2016-02-19 04:50:00 | I've still got a few floppies lying around for no real reason. I keep erasable CDs and DVDs though as they could come in handy from time to time. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1416200 | 2016-02-19 04:53:00 | Try writing things like "Nude hot women" on them and put them on the top of the recycle bin . Ken . :) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1416201 | 2016-02-19 06:38:00 | Ken, I like your style. ! | BobM (1138) | ||
| 1416202 | 2016-02-19 08:49:00 | Glad you bought it up...made me search through the many CD/DVD blanks, and old trial software, ripped MP3''s that are stashed in the closet and draws. Need throw many of them out now... | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1416203 | 2016-02-19 19:02:00 | I helped a widow clear out her husband's things after he died. There were 2 shelves each about 3m long jammed with 5.25" floppies. Seemed to be operating systems and compilers. I estimated about 2000 discs. At 512kB that's a whopping 1GB. It's hard to imagine anybody needing that much storage ;) (Me, I have a pile of 3.5" HDDs to get rid of. Apart from securely wiping them, my other problem is I'm not absolutely sure I've retrieved everything I want. I'm only 99.99% sure) |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
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