# Small-scale hoarder **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2013, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-scale-hoarder/671495 "2013-10-17T16:27:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2013, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-scale-hoarder/671495/41 "2013-10-23T17:17:29Z")
> [@Moonlitherial](#): > > Next stop the pile of disks. Unfortunately I need a garbage bag for those, not recyclable here ☹ I _thought_ I had tossed most of the old floppies. Just a handful of emergency disks for the older stuff. But Sunday I came across a box full of them.\* Lots of classic software: WP for Windows 6.1, two copies of Windows 3.1, etc. Chucked. But a few with copies of some classic stuff that I wanted. So, I copied and tossed them. Unfortunately… 1. In a box of ~40 disks maybe 6 weren’t empty but nothing on the label. I had to go and check each one. Won’t ever forget to label a floppy again! 2. Another handful of disks were formatted and written using fdformat. It put 1.72Mb on a disk. Can’t read them. Not sure it would be worth it to set up something so I could. But, a standard size shopping bag of floppies is in the can at the curb and the truck is down the street. (Along with a bunch of cables, toner cartridges and crap.) Progress. - This box was right next to where there had been a box of floppies that I went thru and chucked a while back. But somehow I didn’t see them at the time. Maybe my old crap is multiplying on me or playing hide-and-seek. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/small-scale-hoarder/671495.md?page=2)