Found while decluttering

[threemonkeys]

Every so often I get the urge to remove some of the superfluous crap that clutters up my house. It doesn't last long and usually coincides with the observation that there is room in the rubbish/recycling for a bit more stuff.

Last night I attacked a drawer full of old stationery stuff. Amongst the stuff thrown away was a bunch of write protect tabs for 5 1/4 inch floppy disks. Heck, I suspect half of you don't even know what I'm referring to. I don't have any floppy disks in the house anymore - let alone the 5 1/4 inch variety. I have no idea why I retained the tabs.

I also tossed a small stack of graph paper in the recycling bin. Does anybody ever use graph paper these days or has it also gone the way of write protect tabs?

Comments

[morpheme]

That's practically a cry for Art, right there. I remember write protect tabs for 5.25in diskettes.

[threemonkeys]

I did try to remember why I'd kept the tabs. Along with "emergency patch" type reasons, was "Art". Since my artistic inclinations are very limited, I didn't give it much credence.