Never Throw Anything Out - Pack Rat Security Precautions
Why even useless junk isn't safe from the nefarious forces of this world.
Yesterday I posted the pack rat's case for saving everything in Never Throw Anything Out.
You think hacking is bad in the digital age? I once had a huge beautiful pristine collection of Byte Magazines dating from the Dawn of Micro-computing. This annoyed my wife terribly.
"What do you need all those old magazines for?", she demanded. "They're hopelessly out of date!"
"But, but, but", I pleaded, "they are full of great technical articles about everything! What if I need to remember how to program an RS-232 serial port?"
She finally convinced me to take the time to use a razor knife and cut out just the pages with technical articles. So I did. Everything fit nicely into just two printer paper boxes.
Then the next time we moved, that box mysteriously didn't make it onto the moving van.
Things that make you go "Hmmm".
And don't even ask what my mother did with my precious childhood collection of Superman comic books! They would have been 50 years old this year!
"Do not store up treasures on earth, where moths and rust consume and wives and mothers clean house." -- Jesus Christ
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The good news is that just about every computer magazine you could imagine (including every issue of Byte) is online now. The bad news is that that won't help you with your former comic collection.
Here's a couple of links for old computer magazines in case you haven't found them or for others that may be interested:
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine
https://archive.org/details/computermagazines
http://www.megalextoria.com/magazines/index.php?twg_album=Computer_Magazines
Thanks! It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks. I keep forgetting that the sum of all human content is now available on line.
Wow, a shame. If you want to get back at her, you could start collecting cassettes. They haven't taken off like vinyl has :D
I've started putting junk cars up on blocks around the yard to serve as flower beds... :P