I was in high tech work since 1960, analog back then, and digital since before 1968. Started building or buying PCs from then mid-1970’s and continued until the present. Like many users I horde parts for some strange reason and have several hard drives from 80G to 300G laying around that I will never use; so am at a loss to what to do with them. Funny, huh? Guess the best thing to do is to throw them in the trash. Why do we horde junk?
debsawyer, not sure why I started hording parts, but it's kind of a habit. I'm getting old so that may be it :)
I have 8080 Mb 5 1/4 floppies 20 meg HDs and loads more often they are worth loads of money as firms run old systems and cant get old parts
Old hard drives have good magnets...take them apart, keep the magnets, mount the magnets to a wall and hang your tools from them. Or keep a door close that will not stay shut. That's what I use them for...
+1 on the magnets-- they're excellent!
I'm not sure if they are still doing it but if you post your disk (plus .69 cents) to this guy he'll shoot it with a big rifle.
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More fun than throwing them in the trash but you'd be losing money each time - especially if it became a habit and you had to buy drives specifically for this purpose.
Personally I hoard stuff on the off chance it will be useful later. It never never is.
Every now and than I collect (fancy word for hoard) enough parts to make another system and give it to somebody. For some 10 years I was servicing computers at home so I had a lot of (mostly un-servicable) parts stashed in the basement. One day I collected them all and sold for recycling, made some 300 Euro out of them.
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