Old manuals

[Jim_Henson]

I'm going through the built up mayhem, and I've found original windows 3.1 manuals, dos 6.22, win95, win98, three printer manuals, many manuals for various game.

I'm still trying to work out what I should keep.

I dont spose they appreciate in value the older they are do they?

 

[Soblue]

Just a quick search on Win 3.1 says, no not much value.

Ebay

 

[SweetCherry]

It's all sentimental value, Muppet Boy.

 

[Jim_Henson]

Fuck, even throwing in the disks wont help

 

[JerseyBoy]

keep everything!

you just never fucking know when you'll need it!

I mean, who the hell remembers anything about 3.1? But next thing you someone will have it that needs a little help...

of course if space is an issue...

 

[Chuckus]

All those manuals are good for one thing....................




















Starting a fire in the fireplace!!!

 

[claude_moveml]

I thought this would be a thread about organs in churches, big powerful organs with long fat pipes. I wish I had an organ like that, I'd have so much fun playing with it.

 

[Lost Cause]

Practical uses for old manuals..

Great coasters for drinks, or hot pans on the coffee table. Leveling shims for various house chairs/sofas, and kneepads for weeding the garden.

 

[Gilly Bean]

Fuck, even throwing in the disks wont help

In fact, that may just hurt the value, in some instances.




A few years back, just as Win 98 came out, my MIL's cpu needed to have 3.1 re-installed on it. It was too slow and old to handle 98 when we tried to install it, and of course, when she assured us she had all the original disks that it had come with, she didn't say that she had no idea WHERE they were.

So, we had to go to a small cpu fixit shop to find 3.1, and the guy actually charged us $45 for the program, and I asked him: How exactly do you make money off this dinosaur?

He said that he always uses 3.1 only, and actually took offense that I had called it a dino. It's not my fault that it was.

 

[Weird Harold]

Starting a fire in the fireplace!!!

Not even that, really. The pastic coating and hologram on genuine Microsoft documentation produce toxic fumes, and unless you go to the trouble of ripping the pages out, books don't burn as well as you might think.

 

[modest mouse]

Geez, Harold, no idea you were an avid book burner.

 

[Weird Harold]

Geez, Harold, no idea you were an avid book burner.

I'm not, but that doesn't mean I have never had occasion to see a book or magazine burn -- or try to.

 

[modest mouse]

I know. Terrible attempt at a joke on my part.

You're right though, books do not burn well. Mostly they turn black and wither up.

 

[ma_guy]

I have at least a dozen large boxes of computer related books around here and I just know I'm going to need one of them someday so I can't bear to part with any of them. Anyone need a manual for a Okidata Microline 83 9-pin dot matrix printer? How about your ADT 2400 baud modem? DOS 2.01? MS Windows v2.0? WordPerfect v4? MultiMate? DBase II? I know someone is in desperate need for the owners manual for the external floppy drive on their Commodore 64 - that baby is priceless!

Forget the fireplace. I need to have a dumpster fire...

 

[Jim_Henson]

Ah well, they can live to fight another day.

 

[Zmey]

Keep 'em. They may have value some day.