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usonian

(26,591 posts)
20. Noble intention!
Tue Aug 9, 2022, 12:15 PM
Aug 2022

I see articles on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com) from people having fun with old stuff. BIG cult of Amiga, by the way.

I have a lot of IMSAI/S-100 stuff that some collectors have expressed interest in.

Building it and running it helped my career to advance.

Hear me out: most "Computer History Museums" are very picky, and I've been turned down several times.
Beggars CAN BE choosers. They ARE.

I was taking a raft of old PC's that I loaded Linux Mint on, to the local thrift store. Saw a guy inspecting old CDROM drives there and asked him if he was interested. My only goal was that they be actually used, and he promised to do so. That was very fortunate. Regular thrift store customers might have used them as doorstops.

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TFG doesn't use computers. Ocelot II Aug 2022 #1
Hard copy lasts longer Retrograde Aug 2022 #2
The Federal Government elleng Aug 2022 #3
Could be a lot of hard drives in those boxes. C_U_L8R Aug 2022 #4
One of the specific items that he supposedly took was that "Love letter" that the leader of napi21 Aug 2022 #5
It has been a very long time but digital classified information is a bear. usonian Aug 2022 #6
Digital devices become obsolete and unreadable at a shocking rate of speed. We have floppy discs... Hekate Aug 2022 #9
Yes, you've answered a larger issue than the classified information one. usonian Aug 2022 #10
I have a couple of 5.25" drives up in the attic csziggy Aug 2022 #13
I went very briefly with some thrift store commodore stuff usonian Aug 2022 #14
I got these because I didn't want them going to the dump csziggy Aug 2022 #16
Noble intention! usonian Aug 2022 #20
Sorry to burst any bubbles here, but grumpyduck Aug 2022 #7
What's this about 15 boxes? I'm late to the party. Beakybird Aug 2022 #8
tfg packed up & took WH docs home to FL with him, some extremely classified. crickets Aug 2022 #12
Who does stuff on hardcopy anymore??? Banks, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.. tenderfoot Aug 2022 #11
Not my bank. Not my doctor. Not my hospital.... Well.... maybe my hospital. nt LAS14 Aug 2022 #15
Lawyers. Believe me, lawyers use hard copies. Liberal In Texas Aug 2022 #17
not T-Rump RussBLib Aug 2022 #18
Analog is best for easy, long-term, off-the-electronic-grid storage. SYFROYH Aug 2022 #19
Some wingers were posting that Trump was negotiating for the boxes release. slater71 Aug 2022 #21
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