If there is such a show as "Digital Hoarders," you can expect to see me on it in the near future.

[qnr]

[intrepidity]

1. "Hoarding" is such a relative term

People who live in gigantic mansions and have all their stuff hidden away or distributed throughout the house are not hoarders. People who live in small(er) spaces and whose stuff is visible, are automatically dubbed hoarders.

Likewise, digital hoarding will never be a thing, because it is invisible.

Also, a person with 10 cats is a "animal hoarder" while a person with 10 kids is a Mormon (or Duggar).

(digital hoarder here )

[qnr]

2. heheheh yeah, I know what you mean.

It's all relative. My external storage used to be 88K floppies with my 8-bit Ataris, and I thought that was amazing. Now I have close to 12TB in HDDs (loads of photographs/videos I've created/coding projects).

[intrepidity]

3. My digital hoarding

bleeds over to the analog world: I have every hard drive I have ever owned, down to the 4MB beast that was in my first PC.

[qnr]

4. Hah! So do I - in addition, I keep all of my other storage too

as an example:
[url=https://flic.kr/p/8vUT3n][img][/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/8vUT3n]Removable media[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/qnr/]Terry Ross[/url], on Flickr

[intrepidity]

5. OMG birds of a feather...

I still have tons of floopies, even the 5-1/4" ones. We are... either brilliant or desperately ill

[qnr]

6. Indeed :D

[csziggy]

7. My Dad kept every calculator he ever owned

From his slip stick to all the various engineering calculators he acquired over the years. Since he only leased it, he couldn't keep the Wang computer he used for a job in the 1960s but he kept most of his other computers. I have his Commodore 64 and the never used Texas Instrument TI-99. He gave me his 286 but since the mother board had gone bad I scavenged it for parts to put into another 286.

I have the drives from his 486 and the HP Windows XP computer that died, and copied all his data from every CDR he ever burned.

You have me beat on hard drive storage, though - I only have 8 TB, filled with family photos from the last 150 years and nearly every photo I have ever taken.

[qnr]

8. Wow - nice.

We need to get together and start our own Hoarders Band!

Those calculators must be of major interest to a lot of people.

[csziggy]

10. I don't get to see them - my sister is in charge of the estate

I just get to visit and look at what he had. What I try to do is make sure we know values or my sister will just chunk stuff out.

Another cool thing we found was an old box sextant. I'm not sure how old it is - it could date from when Dad was in the Navy in WWII or from his engineering days at Michigan Tech. Or it could have belonged to his father, who went to the Michigan School of Mines in the 1910s. It looks a lot like the one in Fig. 4 here: https://sextantbook.com/?s=box+sextant

[qnr]

11. Cool - I've seen box sextants, but I've never actually used them.

Absolutely, you certainly don't want to find out that she has just disposed of them.

[lastlib]

9. Don't know what happened to my SR-50, but still have my Pickett steel slide rule.....

Still have all of my old computers except the Tandy XT, which I sold. The Win 95 and Win 98 machines are disassembled, but still have all the parts. A couple of my old monitors and printers have shot craps and went junk-ways.

[qnr]

12. My aunt had an SR-50A - ah slide rules, I used to love them. Unfortunately,

I left those in NYC when I joined the Coast Guard, and they were damage/destroyed in a fire.