old but new stuff

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012, Vu Pham wrote:
>On 03/15/2012 07:40 PM, Ian Stephen wrote:
...
>A colleague found a recycling company that they will pick up and go thru 
>checking all the items and re-use (sell?) all the working stuff. I feel 
>good because at least those things can still be used where people need them.

Occassionally I will have to do migrations from Really Old(tm)
systems, and having something around that can be used for this
has been essential (at least that's the excuse I give my wife
who is convinced that I'm a pack rat :-).

The biggest problem is often remembering how to do things like
transfer data from an SCO OpenServer 5.0.x system without
networking and marginal hard disks.  A week or so ago I had to
remember how to use ckermit, at least until I figured out how to
mount a dd'ed disk image under a VMware virtual machine.

Bill
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