j_cheney | Rainbow Pile of Obsolescence....

Last night I spent some time going through some old files. Computer files, that is.

3.5 inch floppies. Neither of my computers has a floppy drive, but I borrowed my husband's external 3.5 drive, and started hunting for a specific file.

I basically have 3 types of records. Old financial records, old school records, and old writing. I discovered that, for the most part, I have 12 back-ups of everything. Everything is backed up to CD as well.....except for that one file I needed. Why that one's missing, I have no idea.

Fortunately, my father fired up one of his old hard drives and found the file lurking there. (I'd sent him a copy a loooong time ago.)

I also counted nearly 50 unused 3.5 discs, in many flourescent shades.

Obsolete now, more or less. They don't hold enough data to make them worth the effort of saving....not when I have my small herd of flash drives (including the herd leader, the big 8GB.) Kinda sad in a way, as the discs come in lots of pretty colors....