{"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":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Old friends, now obsolete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/2015.html\">New Years&#8217; resolutions<\/a>. Gotta love &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p>However, I have too much stuff. There. I said it. I mean, I firmly believe in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainyquote.com\/quotes\/quotes\/w\/williammor158643.html\">the William Morris quote<\/a>,\u00a0 however, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.distractify.com\/beth-buczynski\/then-and-now-tech-ads\/\">times have changed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Elektors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2719\" title=\"Elektors\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Elektors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This collection of Elektor magazines I grew up with &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elektor.de\/70-79\">obsolete<\/a>.<br \/>\nA collection of GE Ham News that someone spent money on to have nicely bound &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/n4trb.com\/AmateurRadio\/GE_HamNews\/ge_ham_news.htm\">obsolete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bytes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2720\" title=\"bytes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bytes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Byte magazines? <a href=\"http:\/\/atariage.com\/forums\/topic\/167235-byte-magazine\/\">Obsolete<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Creative Computing? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atarimagazines.com\/creative\/\">Not quite yet<\/a> obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>And even if I can&#8217;t find it online, scanning and dumping* is better than storing the originals until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.co.uk\/shows\/storage-wars\">my container is auctioned off<\/a> one day.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8212; I&#8217;m still keeping mountains of stuff. Just not&#8230; this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* Yes, Jason <a href=\"http:\/\/atariage.com\/forums\/topic\/167235-byte-magazine\/page-28#entry2605887\">doesn&#8217;t like dumping<\/a>. I&#8217;m not dumping anything that&#8217;s even slightly rare, so chill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah yes, New Years&#8217; resolutions. Gotta love &#8217;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 &#8212; obsolete. A collection of GE Ham News that someone spent money on to have nicely bound &#8212; obsolete. Byte magazines? Obsolete. Creative Computing? Not quite yet obsolete. And even if I can&#8217;t find it online, scanning and dumping* is better than storing the originals until my container is auctioned off one day. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8212; I&#8217;m&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/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}]}}