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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Do you collect anything physical? (alien.top)

submitted 2 years ago by TattedUpSimba@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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So my wife knows I’m a data hoarder and she’s unbothered. Thank god 😂

But she asked me why do I collect comics physically when they could be digital and take less space? I didn’t have an answer so I said just cause haha. I was curious for y’all do you collect anything physical? And if so what do you collect? Also why?

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[–] ruo86tqa@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Retro computers, mostly x86. On the 8-bit side: I have a working hungarian Videoton TVC (the same type was the family's first computer), 3 Commodore 64s.

The x86 collection starts with two XT clones (one with a NEC V20), an IBM PS/2 Model 30 with a 8086 (this is the only PS/2 with ISA slots instead of the proprietary MCA; later I bought a NEC V30 for this beauty) and ends with a Pentium Pro 200. I also have some x86 machines in between: 286, 386 and 486.

Love these machines, they remind me of the carefree teenage years.

[–] ComprehensiveBoss815@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

Ditto with retro computers, though I'm sticking to pre-PC/x86 or I'll end up buried haha