27 Apr
2005
27 Apr
'05
8:59 p.m.
On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
I know, I'm, increasingly saving more of this stuff, surprisingly. When
you happen to actually need it (rare, but it comes up) you realize it's
not so much dead weight after all :)
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As far as PC
stuff, I would keep a few of what you find useful and
scrap the rest. The world will be littered with them for a few more
years so you'll have plenty of time to settle any regrets before they
all disappear.
I felt this way about 8088-era motherboards. So a number of years back
I scrapped them. Now, I've found that it's fairly difficult to track
down an XT motherboard.
It's even starting to be less easy to find common 'baby-AT' 286/386/486
motherboards these days. Most of the stuff has been recycled. The
'junk' now being scrapped in the mainstream is Pentium I stuff.