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From: Gene Wirchenko
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 21:45

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On 1 Jul 2018 15:49:09 GMT, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:

>On 2018-07-01, Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2018-06-30, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>>> Bitsavers uploaded a great deal of material from Xerox in the
>>>> 1980s.  XDE, PARC, typefounder, dorado, dolphin, etc.
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/IndexByDate.txt
>>> 
>>> Thank you, thank you, thank you. I threw away my XDE manuals in a house
>>> move decades ago, which I have always regretted and my Xerox 6085
>>> workstations a couple of years after that, ditto.
>>> 
>>
>> "You never regret the things you don't throw away" -- me
>
>I fear that isn't entirely true. We moved 51 boxes of SF books last
>time (in Feb 2016). I'm kinda conflicted about the time, effort and
>money involved in that, given I'm unlikely to read them again, they
>aren't worth anything significant and the next person to do anything
>with them is likely to be my executor.

     Maybe, he will take up the pastime.

     You could move twice more.  In rec.art.sf-written, there is a
saying that three moves are equivalent to a fire.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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