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As I work on cleaning up my computer room tonight, I continue to come upon things like a full length (and I mean full-length) Video-7 video card from 1988, or, even more a classic, an IDE/floppy controller card from 1984 that not only has slot connectors for the hard drives instead of pin connectors, but the cables are the old gray ones with red and green stripes to denote every fifth conductor and, rather than a ribbon, are actually separate wires.

I look at these devices and I think "Wow, I can't imagine ever using this device. Ever. This one is only five years younger than me!" And then I carefully pack them back into a box to go downstairs, because a nagging little voice tells me that just maybe, someday, I'll want to build a 286, or maybe even an 8088, to run some equally antiquated piece of software on and I might need one. And where will I be then?

*shrugs* Perhaps it just shows how well Andrea and I are suited to each other. I have my aging piles of silicon, and she has... well, whatever it is she has in those stacks of boxes down there. I'm not honestly sure what they all are, and I'm not sure she is either. It's ok. Someday we'll have time to sort through all this stuff. Someday....