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Attempting to do some cleaning in the home office. I have a whole shelf dedicated to 3.5" floppies. HAven't even had a machine that had a floppy for at least 8 years. At least the 5.25" floppies are gone.
I've got MS DOS 6, 6.22, Win 3.1 along with Norton, and recovery discs and boot discs (one for every game I played back then I think).
And then 2-3 copies each of Win 95, 98 (looks like I have both of those two on floppy and CD), 98SE, ME, 2K, NT4.0, Exchange 5.5 along with Transcender software for cert testing for half of them.
And yeah, still have another shelf full of software for 95 & 98. Will 98 even install on one of today's systems? Or is my memory of those games better than they really are and I should let them be?
Oh yeah, I've also got a Compaq, HP and an old Dell (I know that one's 9 yrs old). Old pieces of junk that I convinced the owners it was time for a new one instead of pouring money into that piece of... So, why are they sitting in my closet???
What do I do with this stuff? It's still good stuff. That is, if you want a 12-15 year old computer to play on. Toss it, give it away (where?), sell it?
Will my HDTV card from ''04 still work on a new machine? It's one that was made before they started putting the flag recognition in them.
So, what in the world do ya'll do with this stuff?
(edit: I even found OS 9 drivers for stuff on a couple of those floppies. Never even looked at a Mac back then. Why do I have Mac discs?)
I've got MS DOS 6, 6.22, Win 3.1 along with Norton, and recovery discs and boot discs (one for every game I played back then I think).
And then 2-3 copies each of Win 95, 98 (looks like I have both of those two on floppy and CD), 98SE, ME, 2K, NT4.0, Exchange 5.5 along with Transcender software for cert testing for half of them.
And yeah, still have another shelf full of software for 95 & 98. Will 98 even install on one of today's systems? Or is my memory of those games better than they really are and I should let them be?
Oh yeah, I've also got a Compaq, HP and an old Dell (I know that one's 9 yrs old). Old pieces of junk that I convinced the owners it was time for a new one instead of pouring money into that piece of... So, why are they sitting in my closet???
What do I do with this stuff? It's still good stuff. That is, if you want a 12-15 year old computer to play on. Toss it, give it away (where?), sell it?
Will my HDTV card from ''04 still work on a new machine? It's one that was made before they started putting the flag recognition in them.
So, what in the world do ya'll do with this stuff?
(edit: I even found OS 9 drivers for stuff on a couple of those floppies. Never even looked at a Mac back then. Why do I have Mac discs?)