Full Disclosure: Last fall I finally agreed to let my wife throw out the 9-track tapes and fan-fold printouts of the 100,000 lines of Fortran '77 code I wrote for my master's thesis in 1978. I'm sure I will suddenly have a need for it any day now.
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Full Disclosure: Last fall I finally agreed to let my wife throw out the 9-track tapes and fan-fold printouts of the 100,000 lines of Fortran '77 code I wrote for my master's thesis in 1978. I'm sure I will suddenly have a need for it any day now.
Exactly, the moment its gone is the moment you need it the most...