put it in boxes, stick it in the attic or basement.

nothing

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
its in the way

Indy, why not store them somewhere safe, and when your old, decrepit and poor, you can start a museum. In 10 years time non-one will ever believe that 3.5" floppies existed,let alone dos or an earlier version of Windows than XP. You could charge a lot of money showing off these things.

Besides,I myself have a box somehwere in my world fullof the same sorts stuff you have - even the original Lotus Suite and Corel Draw programs, and a load of coverdisks.

beat j00 both, 2 spectrum zx 81's in the attic

IT for charities

if that's no use, I believe that Ebay and Half.com both have giveaway sections for registered charities.

Edited by - Fear Factor on 1/27/2004 8:53:42 AM

taw you need to stick "www." in front of that link mate.

as for what to do with old disks...it raises an interesting question but with a very simple answer. We work with modern antiques, everything we play on or work on will become extinct in a matter of a couple of years. So the decision whether to keep it or not to hopefully make a profit in the future is entirely yours.

Personally I see it like this...

If its a machine, eg an old acorn, apple, amstrad, ibm, bbc etc, then yes its probably worth boxing up and sticking in your attic. You may be lucky, in 20 years it may be worth something, but on the other hand its probably only gonna be worth a giggle with your friends. But if its software - especially old operating systems (that were popular) such as DOS or win 3.1, just bin it or give it to taw's charity. Its worth nothing to you and will be worth nothing in the future simply due to its popularity at the time....and remember, to be worth something in the future it has to have something interesting about. So for example, if you were hanging on to the boot disks of RISC OS 1.1 from the mid eighties Acorn Archimedes days - THAT could be of interest in the future. Reason? they weren't as popular as they should have been at the time, and they had a lot to offer ahead of their time - in fact many people still say that RISC 1.1 is better than most operating systems of today and should be used as a model. But DOS? Naah, PCs were popular, everyone and his dog has an old 186/286 in a box in the garage, no collector will look at your disks in the future with interest.

So my advice is simple. Its worth nothing now. Its gonna be worth nothing in the future. Hand it over to charity so at least it can do some good....and you'll feel better for it.

Imagine, A laptop running win ME, complete with a few games... 50 years from now!!! Maby I'll keep the old thing after all!

I'm having the same trouble myself. Some of my old games won't run on XP and others I don't and will never play. I be gamestop would take um though.

tsk! silly me! thx FF. can you also edit my bank account for an extra £5000 plz? btw thx for the 6 big fat points from the other day, I take them to bed with me at night and think of you...


Edited by - Tawakalna on 1/27/2004 1:25:10 PM

*Shudder* freak. I hereby order you not to post in anything less than 5 posts away from mine!

put em in a box that says 'sh*tty games', then put it in ur basement

in a couple of years you'll come across this and see a few of the games and say,"this isnt a sh*tty game! why did i put it there?".....then you'll play it for an hour of so and realize why

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?
its in the way