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I have a copy of DOS 4 user manual, but if I get rid my desk will wobble again
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I have that and the manual of the Amstrad 386 PC that had it on board, both of them with the same cover design. I'll never let go of them... as I still have a battered copy of PC No Problem, year 1995.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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Yes I hate pitching old books, even ones I never use. Just a thing I guess.
Last time I moved I took a car load of them to the local library and dropped them. There were probably about 50 books most of the real old ones I pitched and the ones that I dropped were newer and the kind that are time agnostic so to speak.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
When you are dead you don't know it, it's only difficult for others.
It's the same when you're stupid.
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#1 Rule of den2k88's household: never toss books;
#2 Rule of den2k88's household: there is no such thing as a useless book;
#3 Rule of den2k88's household: there is no concept such as there are too many books.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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I believed that, until I had to move and worked out how heavy 5000-odd paperbacks can be...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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5000 odd paperbacks! now that's a porn collection
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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"Paperback" not "Pixelback"! 
They were mostly SF and fantasy.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's why we bought a 400 square meters house now I'm moving on my own in a smaller rented apartment and the books are actually the heaviest part, besides some of the furniture. But I regret nothing *_*
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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I had a big box of ttl data books from signetics and ti.
Along with various manuals like qemm.
I thought wow, this is going to wig out any "normal" that finds these.
I had a hard time getting rid of them. But I did.
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I had a load of VB4 books I got for a specific purpose, but then found they didn't burn very well
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Trash them (well, recycle then).
At one point in my life, I thought it was nice to keep all my old books (technical, fiction, non-fiction) into nicely stack bookshelves.
But one day, I found out that I never (really rarely) grab a book from the shelves and more importantly, I was moving to a smaller (but better) apartment and I recycled (nearly) all my books.
I now have a small bookshelf with maybe 50 books (cook books, art books, some college year books).
All that I need to read nowadays is available electronically or from the local public libraries.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Preserve them for twenty more years in the attic; they're likely fetch a fortune in an auction.
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you think that a book on post error codes for a IBM 286 will be worth money in the Future?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Someone may come up with an idea of an (old) computer museum.
Or some (possibly ivy-league) university may get a grant for preserving old computer books - better if the book has discolored paper 
Where I live (Bangalore, India), they buy old books by weight; fetches about Rs. 10 per kg of books (about a US dollar for 6 kgs of books). I just disposed some of them recently. Goes for recycling.
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In the UK we already have a museum of computing (its at Bletchley, home of the worlds first electronic computer
http://www.tnmoc.org/[^]
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however I doubt that tech books will ever be wanted (computer OEM manuals maybe)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Agree.
In Bangalore too, there's a museum which houses one of Bangalore's earliest mainframes - DEC 10. I had worked on this very system about 28 years ago, and its now a museum piece.
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attic is already full of useless "stuff"
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Yes, its always a dilemma - what to keep, what to dispose.
I (try to) follow this rule: Keep all concept-related books (physics, math, algorithms, numerical methods); throw away all technology-related ones (especially computer languages).
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A place I worked in the 80's had a DEC VAX in the warehouse gathering dust, they replaced it with a PC despite not having paid it off yet
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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charlieg wrote: Trying to apply the three rules of clutter relationship management:
1) Are you using it?
2) If not, is it making money?
3) If not, do you love it?
No? Time to toss it.
Marc
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Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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My wife finally persuaded me to chuck some books about hardware that can be found only in museums (mostly 80x86 and graphics cards), but she will pry my genuine IBM PC/XT Technical Reference Manual (in the original three-ring binder!) out of my cold, dead, hands!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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charlieg wrote: have trouble letting go of books?
Trouble? No. I just don't do it. Nearly every time I part with something, I immediately want it back.
And some of my "old books" are recent acquisitions. 
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