Thursday, June 26, 2008

Detritus

In anticipation of moving, I'm reviewing all the old disks -- mostly application installs and the like -- that I've accumulated and saved through the years. I know that I've gone through a series of trash-outs in the past, but I'm surprised to find that I still have 5.25-inch disks, in addition to 3.5-inch disk, and CD-ROMs going back to gold disks of Windows '95.
The disks I'm interested in are the MaxThink -- Neil Larson's famous Hypertext processor from about 1991. I can recall his little ads in Byte and PC Magazine. i paid $100 for the software at a time when I didn't really have $100 to spend on software. Then I couldn't figure out how to use it, or at least use it effectively. More fool me.
I also have a copy of Lotus Agenda, another package that I think was too clever by a half. It
I've ruminated previously about the best way to dispose of this plastic and metal and toxic waste that it would be good to keep out of a landfill. I don't want to move this stuff, and I don't want to throw it in a landfill.

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