On Sat 13 Dec 2008 11:50:42p, Omelet told us...

> In article >,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>> I threw out boxes
>> and boxes of old floppy disks, old application manuals, printer ribbons,
>> expansion boards etc.
>
> I need to do that. <g> I've been trying to get dad to let me throw out
> the boxes of 4" floppies. I've offered those up on freecycle and nobody
> wants them! Same for the zip drives and disks.

Who would want them when you can get 8 and 16 GB USB flash drives?

I still have 1 PC that has a 3-1/2" floppy drive, so I keep a few disks
that serve as boot disks and utilities in case of problems.

The rest of the floppies as well as 2 zip drives and all the zip disks went
to the recycler.

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