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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumsspent the evening cleaning up things on my computer . deleting files , old links , dead links , links i have no
use for any more . poof . gone.
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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
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Hermit-The-Prog
(33,911 posts)1. Blasphemer!
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!
AllaN01Bear
(19,499 posts)4. ohm myyy. too bad cp-m didnt become the standard os .
LudwigPastorius
(9,422 posts)2. That would take considerably longer to do than an evening in my case.
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.
Every ponce in a while I spend an evening on it, and I'm nowhere near clear. You must be very organized.
Fla Dem
(24,123 posts)5. I'm in the process of doing exactly the same thing, also including paper files.