Maybe a bit OT - all those old, think printed manuals

I just cleaned out a closet down in the edit suite and lo-and-behold I found old boxes of Final Cut discs and manuals dating all the way back to Final Cut Pro version 2.... and that includes DVD Studio Pro and Motion and Soundtrack when it was called Soundtrack, and printed pdf manuals for Livetype and Cinematools.. and stand along Cinematools box! And even the software Cinematools came from: Film Logic.. or maybe Slingshot. They are both in there, I can't reember which Apple turned into Cinematools. I think I'll fill up a garbage can.
What does everyone else do with those big boxes of thick printed manuals? Come to think of it maybe I should recycle them.

Being the pack rat I am, we have a whole storage room filled with obsolete software, manuals, boards, digitizer pads, plotters and so on. Occassionally I'll drag the most hapless equipment out and let the art students disassemble them for useful elements in their constructions. Recycling can be fun and artful.
cheers,
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JavaJ wrote:
Man, we are such geeks.
Man, no kidding... after reading these posts, (especially yours JJ) I agree.
Now, I do see a problem with this. It is like getting rid of old college/university textbooks (or papers). These are items that got you to a degree- very hard to just toss (or what is the value of an education). The same with the software- it has brought you to where you are now. You may think you are just cleaning house- but are you really throwing away a tool that was part of getting you to today? I miss my old Dr. T's notation program and manual (plus my original Cakewalk for DOS and Finale- man- Finale was a huge box with big manuals).
You should really take some time to evaluate if this is part of your historical toolchest (or just extra junk).
Just my thoughts.
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Dr'T's notation? You must mean... "The Copyist".
A working version still resides on an Amiga 3000 I kept.
JJ, You hit it square, part of it is a shared history with these objects.. also because I feel they were part of an education, I learned a lot from working with software that would be considered inferior by today's, even yesterday's standards. I may take some of iSchwartz's advice and detach a bit, then again....
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mac $
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