Manuals for forgotten languages
Starting off the month with a credit from our new ISP. We are waiting on a cable, and they have waived our monthly fees because we are not let live with them. In sharp contrast, we spent the last decade with a name company that never once met their terms of service while collecting their monies. We pay attention to those details.
Today, we found an advertise eight inch floppy. I have never owned a drive to read such media, and I forget where it came from. Gone now.
So, we are continuing to reduce the volume of treasures stored in garage boxes. If you do not regularly root around, you forget the diversity of items that pile up over time. As well, my collection of Latin liturgical tomes are on their way to feed the worms. Probably a good thing, since singing in Gregorian chant would have annoyed my neighbours.
We are finding a lot of tools that might be useful, sometime. Just not soon. I do not need to plane a board, or bend a box. Also, a number of surplus metal clamshells (boxes) are removed from inventory.
There were some ragtag books in the piles. That manual for a calculator which did not use RPN was of great value, a long time ago. We have dumped the manuals for CP/M and there will be other rare titles going away. A fortune in cables, if you keep old audio equipment too numerous to mention, in service. My life, being peeled away like the skin of an onion.
