{"id":2713,"date":"2015-01-14T09:25:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T07:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2015-01-14T09:25:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T07:25:49","slug":"old-friends-now-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Old friends, now obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah yes, New Years’ resolutions<\/a>. Gotta love ’em.<\/p>\n

However, I have too much stuff. There. I said it. I mean, I firmly believe in the William Morris quote<\/a>,\u00a0 however, times have changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This collection of Elektor magazines I grew up with — obsolete<\/a>.
\nA collection of GE Ham News that someone spent money on to have nicely bound — obsolete<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Byte magazines? Obsolete<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Creative Computing? Not quite yet<\/a> obsolete.<\/p>\n

And even if I can’t find it online, scanning and dumping* is better than storing the originals until my container is auctioned off<\/a> one day.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong — I’m still keeping mountains of stuff. Just not… this stuff.<\/p>\n

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* Yes, Jason doesn’t like dumping<\/a>. I’m not dumping anything that’s even slightly rare, so chill.

Ah yes, New Years’ resolutions. Gotta love ’em. However, I have too much stuff. There. I said it. I mean, I firmly believe in the William Morris quote,\u00a0 however, times have changed. This collection of Elektor magazines I grew up with — obsolete. A collection of GE Ham News that someone spent money on to have nicely bound — obsolete. Byte magazines? Obsolete. Creative Computing? Not quite yet obsolete. And even if I can’t find it online, scanning and dumping* is better than storing the originals until my container is auctioned off one day. Don’t get me wrong — I’m...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,75,31,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-electronics","category-geek","category-get-off-my-lawn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}