Remember what you put in the garbage 25 years ago?

[Omega-TI]

I just saw this on Ebait for $199.00!! (plus $66.60 shipping 'of course') << HERE >>

I remember throwing a pile of crap exactly like that in the garbage around 1995!

Is there something YOU tossed into the garbage that you now wish you kept?

 

 

Of course if I wanted to read an article in one of these magazines, not being a collector and all, I'd just go to << THIS >> website and download the ones that they do have in PDF format for free.

 

 

[82-T/A]

I just saw this on Ebait for $199.00!! (plus $66.60 shipping 'of course') << HERE >>

 

 

 

That's crazy...

 

I didn't so much throw stuff away as my parents gave it away... like the GI Joe aircraft carrier, the terror dome. I had all of the Planet of the Apes characters from the late 70s / early 80s. I had a lot of the Star Wars stuff, mostly the stuff from the Empire Strikes Back days.

 

I definitely don't wish I still had it, no room and no real interest, but certainly would love the eBay coin from it. Hopefully it all made someone else happy!

 

 

I did keep the entire 1994 subscription year of COMPUTE! magazine, as well as two releases of "InterAction", which was Sierra's quarterly catalog / magazine. Although totally useless in the truest sense, I still like picking one of them up and looking through them every once in a while.

 

I don't really keep very much anymore, and I honestly have tried to totally unload anything and everything I don't need...

 

 

Oh... I think one regret I guess, is basically crushing / destroying all of the Ultima, Wing Commander, AD&D, and other computer game boxes. I literally had all of them... all of them (except Aklabeth). I even had all the Sierra game boxes. I took the disks out, saved maybe half of the manuals, and then threw everything away about 10 years ago because it was taking up too much space.

[Keatah]

Some PC game boxes and astronomy books.

[Ed in SoDak]

A lot of this stuff wouldn't be rare at all, except for the vast majority of it getting landfilled. Either that or a lot was hoarded but the owners are still living. So those "collections" may trickle into the pipeline or as often as not, dumpstered by the heirs as worthless.

 

I held onto a ton of old magazines with hopes they'd be collectible someday. The weight estimate is probably accurate! I have stacks of Nat'l Geographics going back to 1911 or so saved by my mom from her father. Plus probably thousands of issues of dozens of other old publications. Mostly electronics/computer/science/mechanics/radio. These days, with every old collection going into pdf, their value has dropped.

 

Before the internet and even now, I'll just drag a stack of 'em into the house and I'm all set for a month or two of reading bliss. Stupid-high shipping has taken away any real advantage to trying to sell them online. Google-Nerd shows me as the only extant example in a 300-mile radius, so local sales are out. Friend Wife has previously told me it's all dumpster fodder to her, so I guess it boils down to either me dealing with it all at some point or it becomes compost.

 

Too bad, because there's plenty of gold in the dross, but she wouldn't have a clue as to which was which! I'm valiantly trying to sort some of it out for dispersion and while the recipients are always happy, I meanwhile get all reabsorbed in the nostalgia of revisiting a collection and the project of dispersal stalls in its tracks. My play room ends up as crowded or worse after most any attempt at sorting it out.

 

But I have to agree, even with publications I happen to have originals, I often go to the pdf of it myself just for the convenience. But for bedside reading, it's always the original!

-Ed

Edited August 16, 2014 by Ed in SoDak

[Osgeld]

C128, a tandy color computer, and a toshibia tx 1000 laptop

 

*kicks past self in head*

[Seob]

Where to start...., a philips :yes (one of the few computers with a 80186), a commodore pet 8296 (just walked away out of a scifi movie looking computer), a pentium pro system, 2 ibm ps/2 286 and 1 ps/2 386 pc with os/2warp with clicky keyboards, a few loose 8086, 8087 and 8088 processors ( intel and compatible), magazines.

Yes just a lot. It sucks having to little room to store stuff.

The :yes was broken, couldn't find some one intrested in it so i had to trow it away.

Cleaned the pet, lost a keyboard spring, wasn't aware of the type of system it was, (it was kinda pre internet when i got it), and threw or gave it away.

The pentium pro, was to bulky so i got rid of it.

The ibm's i gave away to a friend of mine, asked him last year if he still got them, but he threw them away a few years back.

The processores, don't know what i did with it.

Magazines i gave away i guess.

[Rybags]

Just under 20 years ago before moving I chucked out a crapload of Page 6, ST User and other assorted magazines of the era.

2nd-hand bookshop wanted nothing to do with them, and I had nowehere to store them.

[jhd]

My Parents moved to a new house some 15 years ago. I assisted them in packing the house, including much of my stuff.

 

I had a complete run of Byte magazine (1987-end of publication). I offered it free for local pick-up, but the only response was from someone who wanted us to deliver it!

 

I also had to get rid of a vintage IBM Portable PC, but I had less sentimental attachment to that hardware. That was, however, sold at a rummage sale, rather than sent to landfill.

 

My video game collection remained complete and intact.

[82-T/A]

C128, a tandy color computer, and a toshibia tx 1000 laptop

 

*kicks past self in head*

 

 

Thing is, I've seen some people's houses that have kept all of this stuff, and while it's totally awesome to set up and play with every now and then, it really, I mean REALLY begins to "own you." It would be nice if I could have a warehouse type building out there somewhere that I could actually have kept all of that old stuff... all those computers and whatnot, and just set them up so I could go over and just play with them whenever. But then of course, I wouldn't want to pay for the utility bill, property insurance, or property taxes either on that lot. Hah...

[am1933]

I just saw this on Ebait for $199.00!! (plus $66.60 shipping 'of course') << HERE >>

I remember throwing a pile of crap exactly like that in the garbage around 1995!

Is there something YOU tossed into the garbage that you now wish you kept?

 

 

Of course if I wanted to read an article in one of these magazines, not being a collector and all, I'd just go to << THIS >> website and download the ones that they do have in PDF format for free.

 

 

Yes-it was mainly magazines with me, I had hundreds of them and just threw them all out one day due to space restraints, probably around 1986/87.

[bobotech]

I really never throw anything away except for crappy IBM compatible and undesirable Apple stuff over the years. I mean who the hell cares about an old Compuadd XT compatible? Eww. I have kept most of the apple stuff over the years but I abandoned a bunch of power pc crap like the Performa 6200 series of computers. They were crap and I didn't care about them and no one else does either. I have tossed away a lot of early to later pentium stuff and 386/486 era stuff. It really doesn't appeal to me and no one seems to want a 486 tower system just so they can play Wing Commander II on it.

 

I never throw away magazines for the most part. I still have 6 or so Creative Computings from around 1976-1977 or so. However I did swap away my entire Atari collection back in the late eighties including the majority of my magazines. I only kept a few creative computings, my complete radio shack catalog collection that had ones from 1976 until they stopped doing them, and some other computer magazines but the Computes! and what not? They all got traded away. I do regret that.

 

The only toy I had that became really desirable in modern times were the 2 cases of Star Wars cards I got in the late seventies. I think the whole case was like 9 dollars or something back then. I think they were these: http://www.collectorsalliance.com/v/vspfiles/photos/6456-2.jpg I gave away those cards to a friend back then. I didn't have any star wars toys of my own unlike my friends except for the cards.

 

one toy that I remember having that I wished I still had was my FischerTechnik construction toys. I didn't have a lot but I had like 2 or 3 sets that I enjoyed. My parents gave them away after I moved out I believe along with my Legos.

 

But as for actually tossing, the only things i toss are crappy nineties and early 2000's era obsolete computers that no one wants.

[Keatah]

I just saw this on Ebait for $199.00!! (plus $66.60 shipping 'of course') << HERE >>

 

Question is will it sell at that price. Till it does we don't know the worth. And *if* it does, it could be a buyer with more money than brains.

 

I also find it unusual to have a 66.60 shipping fee.. goes to show you people just make up prices to make them up without any real knowledge or research.

[The Usotsuki]

Early Pentium/PPC era - just new enough to drive you mad, because they're neither modern nor retro.