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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (75010)	9/18/2003 2:34:39 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

So, they're still available! Well, I guess almost everything is available on Ebay. I really should go there from time to time, I suppose, even if only for fun. Assuming I had an hour or two to spare, which may happen in about three years if I don't take on a single other thing I want to do between now and then. But I had forgotten how big they were. They would never fit in a contemporary computer case. So one would have to buy a case with the right connectors, power supply, etc., too. I think I'll just try to steel myself to toss those disks. Any information I haven't touched in over ten years probably isn't something I'm going to need tomorrow. Makes me realize, though, how much history is going to disappear. As I read books of letters of people way back and even up through WW II, and realize that with email disappearing into the ether historians of a century from now are going to have very little to work with from this generation of Americans. I sure don't have any emails from five years and six computers ago. And when i trash those disks, a lot of ancient history of no interest to me but maybe of interest to historians or future geneaologists will be gone.