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spent the evening cleaning up things on my computer . deleting files , old links , dead links , links i have no (Original Post) AllaN01Bear Oct 2023 OP
Blasphemer! Hermit-The-Prog Oct 2023 #1
ohm myyy. too bad cp-m didnt become the standard os . AllaN01Bear Oct 2023 #4
That would take considerably longer to do than an evening in my case. LudwigPastorius Oct 2023 #2
I could not possibly do it in an evening. soldierant Oct 2023 #3
I'm in the process of doing exactly the same thing, also including paper files. Fla Dem Oct 2023 #5

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,911 posts)
1. Blasphemer!
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 01:08 AM
Oct 2023

I still have docs and programs going back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroAce





I can still run CP/M 2.2u programs that were written for my long-gone Kaypro 1


What if everyone started deleting old bytes? We'd soon be out of bits!

LudwigPastorius

(9,422 posts)
2. That would take considerably longer to do than an evening in my case.
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 01:13 AM
Oct 2023

I wouldn't say I'm a data hoarder, but there is the digital equivalent of a few empty pizza boxes and old newspapers laying around on my Mac.

soldierant

(7,110 posts)
3. I could not possibly do it in an evening.
Sat Oct 28, 2023, 01:26 AM
Oct 2023

Every ponce in a while I spend an evening on it, and I'm nowhere near clear. You must be very organized.

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