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What did you get rid of today?
rhodges:
Well, it was not today, but "recently" I sent a good deal of ATM networking gear to the recycling. Newbridge and Madge switches that were fiercely expensive twenty years ago are now just ewaste. I sold a couple Fore switches on ebay for very little, just to keep them from the crusher. I still have one or two Sparc Ultra 2 workstations and an HP 735 to get rid of. And some number of (small but heavy) X-terminals and (large and heavy) monitors to send to their fate.
I also have some Intel 460T 100bt switches that I won't ever use, still new in the box.
I might even pay shipping, if I know that $item is going to a good home.
jmelson:
Today a guy picked up an X-axis power feed from my 1938 Bridgeport mill. It came off when I retrofitted the mill to CNC in 1996, and has been sitting on the floor under the mill ever since. I sold the old mill to a guy, but we are still waiting for the ground to get hard enough to get a truck back there to pick it up. Little by little, some stuff is getting cleared out. I donated 3 X 1/2" mag tape drives to the Large Scale System Museum in Philadelphia last week. Also, my Honeywell Alert computer from the X-15 project.
Jon
eti:
False guilt. Got rid of it today and every day for years. Keep clearing it out and be free!
SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on December 31, 2022, 12:55:13 pm ---Well I got rid of CoVID... My wife caught it before Christmas, on Christmas day she was on the bed, 1 day later I was and the kid too.
Finally today it started to shown negative on the tests for all of us.
--- End quote ---
So that's how you knew you could get out of bed? :horse:
NiHaoMike:
--- Quote from: Black Phoenix on December 31, 2022, 12:55:13 pm ---Well I got rid of CoVID... My wife caught it before Christmas, on Christmas day she was on the bed, 1 day later I was and the kid too.
Finally today it started to shown negative on the tests for all of us.
--- End quote ---
My best friend recently had a similar experience with Covid about a week ago, only one or two days was really bad. On the 4th day of symptoms, it was only mild. She attributes healthy living to why she mostly recovered so quickly.
And that brings me to something everyone should be working to get rid of: an unhealthy diet. Oddly enough, I do not remember any Covid avoidance measures recommending a healthy diet, even though it's pretty well known that a healthy diet helps with immunity in general. There have been quite a few posts in healthy living communities on Facebook about how healthy living (most importantly a healthy diet) let them get through Covid with relatively mild symptoms.
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