The Nostalgia black hole
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I am trying to get rid of stuff so the kids won't have to. It would be so much easier if I could just round file stuff instead of reading, fondling and remembering. I came across an old Pocket PCRef book, 10th edition: year 2000. I must have purchased at least 5 different versions. Alas, I only kept the latest, they are no longer published. It has such useful information as Hayes AT commands, a table of powers of 2 up to 64 and old hard drive jumper specs. Brings back a lot of memories, some good. They are no longer published but the publisher has handbooks for general pocket ref and handyman ref. No archives of old PCRef, I have seen them elsewhere. So, why did I have to open it? Day before yesterday. Oh, BTW, anyone interested in an original Pi? Or the hardware and maintenance manual for the IBM Proprinter (1986)?
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Hayes AT commands
That brings back some (now vague) memories!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment "Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst "I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I am trying to get rid of stuff so the kids won't have to. It would be so much easier if I could just round file stuff instead of reading, fondling and remembering. I came across an old Pocket PCRef book, 10th edition: year 2000. I must have purchased at least 5 different versions. Alas, I only kept the latest, they are no longer published. It has such useful information as Hayes AT commands, a table of powers of 2 up to 64 and old hard drive jumper specs. Brings back a lot of memories, some good. They are no longer published but the publisher has handbooks for general pocket ref and handyman ref. No archives of old PCRef, I have seen them elsewhere. So, why did I have to open it? Day before yesterday. Oh, BTW, anyone interested in an original Pi? Or the hardware and maintenance manual for the IBM Proprinter (1986)?
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
Oh my, If I looked hard enough thru "things I have to keep", I know I could find an old IBM 360 green or blue reference card. EBCDIC here we come.
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I am trying to get rid of stuff so the kids won't have to. It would be so much easier if I could just round file stuff instead of reading, fondling and remembering. I came across an old Pocket PCRef book, 10th edition: year 2000. I must have purchased at least 5 different versions. Alas, I only kept the latest, they are no longer published. It has such useful information as Hayes AT commands, a table of powers of 2 up to 64 and old hard drive jumper specs. Brings back a lot of memories, some good. They are no longer published but the publisher has handbooks for general pocket ref and handyman ref. No archives of old PCRef, I have seen them elsewhere. So, why did I have to open it? Day before yesterday. Oh, BTW, anyone interested in an original Pi? Or the hardware and maintenance manual for the IBM Proprinter (1986)?
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
I wish my father would have done the same. He left me a garage and three sheds full of crap. I have to admit I've loved and used some, a very little, but the vast majority goes to the dump. It's a lot of work. We should not do this to our survivors. Also, I think we enjoy the little gems like the PCRef, that our kids won't recognize. We should follow your example and clean our own house while we can, and maybe enjoy a few gems of our own. If I follow your example and my own advice, my last box of stuff will have my 1984 intel LAN Components User's Manual. I spent a lot of time in those years building boards around the 82586 Ethernet Coprocessor. Way too much fun.
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Oh my, If I looked hard enough thru "things I have to keep", I know I could find an old IBM 360 green or blue reference card. EBCDIC here we come.
Trade you a cathode follower vacuum tube! Will add a flow chart stencil. :)
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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I am trying to get rid of stuff so the kids won't have to. It would be so much easier if I could just round file stuff instead of reading, fondling and remembering. I came across an old Pocket PCRef book, 10th edition: year 2000. I must have purchased at least 5 different versions. Alas, I only kept the latest, they are no longer published. It has such useful information as Hayes AT commands, a table of powers of 2 up to 64 and old hard drive jumper specs. Brings back a lot of memories, some good. They are no longer published but the publisher has handbooks for general pocket ref and handyman ref. No archives of old PCRef, I have seen them elsewhere. So, why did I have to open it? Day before yesterday. Oh, BTW, anyone interested in an original Pi? Or the hardware and maintenance manual for the IBM Proprinter (1986)?
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
There are at east a coule of sites out there like User Manuals[^] and ManualsLib[^] that I think you could donate to if you're up for it. (Google manuals, should be at the top.)
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Oh my, If I looked hard enough thru "things I have to keep", I know I could find an old IBM 360 green or blue reference card. EBCDIC here we come.
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I am trying to get rid of stuff so the kids won't have to. It would be so much easier if I could just round file stuff instead of reading, fondling and remembering. I came across an old Pocket PCRef book, 10th edition: year 2000. I must have purchased at least 5 different versions. Alas, I only kept the latest, they are no longer published. It has such useful information as Hayes AT commands, a table of powers of 2 up to 64 and old hard drive jumper specs. Brings back a lot of memories, some good. They are no longer published but the publisher has handbooks for general pocket ref and handyman ref. No archives of old PCRef, I have seen them elsewhere. So, why did I have to open it? Day before yesterday. Oh, BTW, anyone interested in an original Pi? Or the hardware and maintenance manual for the IBM Proprinter (1986)?
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
Nothing like my hardback TI TTL databook. (1984?)
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Oh my, If I looked hard enough thru "things I have to keep", I know I could find an old IBM 360 green or blue reference card. EBCDIC here we come.
I still have my first "computer". A K&E "Log Log duplex Decitrig Slide Rule". Number N4081 Cost a fortune back then. The manual is very yellowed, > 100 pages Slide rules came into general use, in the US, back in 1910. No, I wasn't there. :)
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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I am trying to get rid of stuff so the kids won't have to. It would be so much easier if I could just round file stuff instead of reading, fondling and remembering. I came across an old Pocket PCRef book, 10th edition: year 2000. I must have purchased at least 5 different versions. Alas, I only kept the latest, they are no longer published. It has such useful information as Hayes AT commands, a table of powers of 2 up to 64 and old hard drive jumper specs. Brings back a lot of memories, some good. They are no longer published but the publisher has handbooks for general pocket ref and handyman ref. No archives of old PCRef, I have seen them elsewhere. So, why did I have to open it? Day before yesterday. Oh, BTW, anyone interested in an original Pi? Or the hardware and maintenance manual for the IBM Proprinter (1986)?
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
I can relate, I lost a lot of my 70's & 80's historical computer software and documention in a fire back in 2008. A lot of it I've never found replacements. I would love to peruse some of it today. But for a lot of it, it wasn't realy worth the space. A time amchine and a scanner would be nice. I've have a saying that applies. Nostalgia can be a prison if you let it.
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I am trying to get rid of stuff so the kids won't have to. It would be so much easier if I could just round file stuff instead of reading, fondling and remembering. I came across an old Pocket PCRef book, 10th edition: year 2000. I must have purchased at least 5 different versions. Alas, I only kept the latest, they are no longer published. It has such useful information as Hayes AT commands, a table of powers of 2 up to 64 and old hard drive jumper specs. Brings back a lot of memories, some good. They are no longer published but the publisher has handbooks for general pocket ref and handyman ref. No archives of old PCRef, I have seen them elsewhere. So, why did I have to open it? Day before yesterday. Oh, BTW, anyone interested in an original Pi? Or the hardware and maintenance manual for the IBM Proprinter (1986)?
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
theoldfool wrote:
instead of reading, fondling and remembering...Brings back a lot of memories, some good.
Pack it into boxes. Then haul the boxes up and down the stairs every month. The number of trips will allow you to objectively measure how fond you really are of that stuff.