I have a bin in my closet somewhere that has all sorts of old chargers, etc. I don’t know why, maybe I think there’s going to be some global apocalypse and the only thing that will work on equipment will be my old chargers, LOL!
Believe it or not, about a year ago I bought a new computer on Amazon that had an old version of Windows. It only cost about $100, and I won’t be using it to go online so I’m not really worried about speed, or getting bogged down by countless updates. But I bought it because I had any number of CD-ROMs that would no longer work on newer Windows. Some of those programs were really excellent and I didn’t want to give them up. And yes, I did try running them under a different option on my current computer.
Sometimes it’s good to keep old stuff. Years ago I had two different CDs with two different versions of Quicken. At the time, I used it a lot to do my monthly budget, although I never connected online or tied my bank account to it or anything. A couple months ago I went digging around for those CDs because I wanted to use it for a budget again and also figure out how to use it for some other things. Unfortunately, I must have lost them or given them away at some point, thinking I would never use them again. I thought to go online and just buy the latest version, but it turns out that you can no longer do so. In fact, it’s really hard to find the old versions for sale. Quicken now has this lovely scheme where you have to subscribe and pay so much a year. And it’s totally ridiculous that even just for a year, the subscription cost more than you would have paid for the CD.
I have a friend at my church who is really into biking with her husband. When she stops by the office, we get to talking about various things and she tells me about how she keeps track of the distances they ride, notes on the ride that they might want to refer back to, just about anything you could think of. When I asked her if she used Excel to do all that, she said no, I use Quicken. I got excited and I asked her if she had the old CD versions and it turned out she did. She brought both of them in for me to borrow and one of them successfully installed on my fairly new computer. And I don’t even have to keep the CD in the drive so I was able to return them to her. I’m really glad she kept those old versions!