I cleaned out my office this weekend and attacked the closet where I found two briefcase-size boxes and a shoebox FILLED with floppy discs I've been collecting since discovering my Inner Nerd in the late 80's. I'm not a sentimental guy and I was NOT going to hang on to, what, over a thousand floppies? And why, in case I ever needed a copy of PCAnywhere? So I just started chucking, but I did take a second to flip through them before tossing them. And of the thousand floppies, I saved seven. Those are shown in the pic below.
Here are some of the titles I encountered on their way to the trashcan (and if you're familiar with at least 40% of these, it's time again to get your good and bad cholesterol checked):
- PCAnywhere
- Carbon Copy for Windows
- F-Prot
- TreeView
- Norton Utilities
- ProComm Plus
- WordStar 4
- Clipper 6.0
- dBase III+
- Windows for WorkGroups
- OS/2 2.0
- Novell 3.11
- Reference disks for the IBM PS/2 Models 55sx, 60, and 80
- Excel 4.0
- Trident Video Card drivers
- DOS 6.0
- Borland Turbo C++
- Borland Turbo Pascal
- Paradox
- AfterDark Screensaver, the StarTrek Edition
- RedHat Linux 2.5.1
- SoundEdit Pro
- Windows 95 boot disks
- PerformPro
- Visioneer software
- Lots of other very wierd stuff I can't remember now
But I did keep three floppy collections: DOS 6.0, Turbo Pascal, and Paradox. I still think that I'll need the DOS 6.0 floppies to save my ass someday, and Turbo Pascal and Paradox I keep for sentimental reasons.
