That's a lot of interesting stuff, but I can see why you passed it up.
I am seeing more and more printers, monitors, keyboards from the "early" days of personal computing in the thrift stores these days. What's going to happen to all that hardware -- landfill?
Yes, Cameron: the landfills are full of obsolete information technology hardware. There are people who sift through the rubble looking for valuable materials -- or information still on hard drives.
[By the way, notagain, I've got a keytop for you and will gladly accept your SC logo -- drop me a line to confirm.]
That's a lot of interesting stuff, but I can see why you passed it up.
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Yes, Cameron: the landfills are full of obsolete information technology hardware. There are people who sift through the rubble looking for valuable materials -- or information still on hard drives.
ReplyDelete[By the way, notagain, I've got a keytop for you and will gladly accept your SC logo -- drop me a line to confirm.]
Ech. It's kind of painful to witness this kind of "missing link" hardware that existed between retro writing machines and the current technology.
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