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Walked into a library basement and found a full row of zip drives nobody has touched since 2002
I was at the Carnegie Library downtown last week looking for old city maps and stumbled into a storage room with 47 zip disks labeled things like "backup Q3 maps" and "family photos disc 2" just sitting there on a shelf gathering dust like a physical version of my downloads folder.
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karen_sanchez1012d ago
Haven't we all thought old tech was worthless until stumbling on something that proves us wrong?
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ramirez.daniel12d ago
@karen_sanchez10 you're speaking my language. I literally kept a box of old VHS tapes for 15 years thinking they were worthless junk, but then found a sealed copy of a weird 80s cartoon I recorded as a kid that some collector paid me $60 for. Guess all those years of hoarding dusty tech finally paid off for one dumb moment. Still got that box though... maybe the Betamax tapes in there will be gold someday.
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barbararamirez6d ago
Right there with you. Dug through my folks' attic last summer and found a box of minidiscs my brother made in high school. One had a demo from a local band that never released anything else, turned out to be worth a pretty penny to some collector. Now I'm eyeballing every old zip drive and floppy disk like it might be a lottery ticket just waiting to be cashed in.
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