I finally sold 5 storage bins of old cards/cables/devices/chassis-parts a while back on craigslist. Some guy who looked like atechno-hermit bought the whole lot for something like $40.
I finally realized the chances of me ever needing that 14.4 serial attach modem or ISA based parallel-port card were getting too slim to justify the storage footprint. -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 8:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Floppy disk recovery tool > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Jon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, and it is so nice to be a Pack Rat that has a hard time disposing > > of old utility software! I found multiple versions of Norton software > > all of the diskettes appear to be usable and intact! > > Yah, stuff like this is why many sysadmins become incorrigible pack rats. The > lusers inevitably come back with requests to do something they swore they > would never need again, years ago. Or one encounters a living specimen of > something long thought to be extinct. > > A few years ago, I had occasion to use the old 8-bit ISA Western Digital VGA > card I had squirreled away to get a console on a voice mail system. My PFY > minion didn't even know that WDC ever made non-storage products. :) > > -- Ben >
