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Gather Ye Olde Disks and Boxes While Ye May : It's treasure to collectors of AOL CDs and old PCs
The San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Thursday, August 22, 2002
| Joyce Slaton, Special to SF Gate
Posted on 08/24/2002 3:26:26 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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San Francisco, California, USA -- For most people, tech gear is straightforward and utilitarian. You buy a modem or a computer or a piece of software to perform a task. Once you're done with it, it's obsolete and ready for the landfill if you can't find a charity or a friend to take it off your hands. I mean, what are you going to do with it -- start a collection?
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Hobbies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: aolcds; collecting; techindex
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Does a UMAX Astra 1200S qualify for collectible status yet? I gotta get rid of this thing!
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posted on
08/24/2002 3:40:24 PM PDT
by
beckett
To: beckett
What is it?
To: beckett
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
SCSI scanner, not a very good one.
I'm really just joking. I got a new system and got rid of most of my old stuff, but the old scanner is still cluttering up the area. I'll dispose of it soon, I'm sure.
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posted on
08/24/2002 3:53:01 PM PDT
by
beckett
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thx for the link.
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posted on
08/24/2002 3:54:02 PM PDT
by
beckett
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I just threw out about half of my computer-related stuff. Still quite a bit remaining, but I figured I really didn't need a PC-XT, nor an unused sample copy of Wordstar v.7 and manuals (that thing weighed a ton), nor lots of the other stuff. Kept my VIC-20 though.
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posted on
08/25/2002 6:09:08 PM PDT
by
supercat
To: supercat
I had a bunch of stuff before I moved to my small place near the beach. Boxes of IBM system Journals , etc!
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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