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On 6/2/25 6:14 PM, Paul Bartlett wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2025, Al Kossow wrote:
> 
>> On 6/2/25 9:38 AM, John wrote:
>>
>>>  When grandad dies, does he leave them to a museum?
>>
>> They are thrown out.
> 
> I am an old codger with a Kaypro 4 sill boxed up in the closet.  I paid
> good money to have the CPU "souped up" to 5MHz.  It came with CP/M 2
> and the "Perfect" suite of s/w, the old kind that said they would
> sacrifice your firstborn if you dared to breach their licensing
> agreement.  It has been years since I took it out of the carton, and
> after all this time I suspect that the old 5 1/4" floppies are not
> readable. I live alone, and I expect that when I am gone, whoever
> cleans out my apartment will have no idea what to do with the Kaypro
> and will just discard it.
> 


Maybe best to sell it now.
At least you will some degree of control over it's destiny.

-J

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  Re: Just wondering... Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-02 16:11 +0200
    Re: Just wondering... yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2025-06-02 15:13 +0042
    Re: Just wondering... pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-06-02 15:55 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-03 23:12 +0200
        Re: Just wondering... pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-06-04 04:37 +0000
          Re: Just wondering... Josef Möllers <josef@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-04 11:33 +0200
            Re: Just wondering... jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2025-06-21 04:19 -0400
    Re: Just wondering... Fritz <freiwiederwind1@hotmail.de> - 2025-06-05 14:15 +0200
  Re: Just wondering... pH <wNOSPAMp@gmail.org> - 2025-06-02 15:54 +0000
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        Re: Just wondering... Nick <here@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-06-12 20:55 +0100
        Re: Just wondering... jeffj@panix.com (Jeff Jonas) - 2025-06-21 04:28 -0400
    Re: Just wondering... Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2025-06-03 11:52 -0400
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    Re: Just wondering... Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-06-02 10:37 -0700
      Re: Just wondering... Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-06-02 10:38 -0700
        Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 15:25 -0500
        Re: Just wondering... drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2025-06-03 00:25 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... Paul Bartlett <bartlett@panix.com> - 2025-06-02 19:14 -0400
        Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 23:20 -0500
        Re: Just wondering... Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2025-06-03 09:30 +0000
    Re: Just wondering... David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2025-06-02 14:02 -0500
      Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 15:28 -0500
    Re: Just wondering... Captain Nemo <nemo@nowhere.org> - 2025-06-02 21:58 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-02 23:49 -0500
        Re: Just wondering... Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2025-06-03 09:09 -0700
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          Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-05 05:03 -0500
          Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-05 05:06 -0500
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            Re: Just wondering... Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-06-10 09:41 -0400
              Re: Just wondering... Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-06-16 21:58 -0400
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          Re: Just wondering... Nils M Holm <nmh@sraddha.invalid> - 2025-06-05 12:02 +0000
  Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-04 07:26 -0500
    Re: Just wondering... cruff@ruffspot.net (Craig Ruff) - 2025-06-05 00:25 +0000
      Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-06-05 05:09 -0500
  Re: Just wondering... Nick <here@nowhere.invalid> - 2025-06-04 23:45 +0100
    Re: Just wondering... David Schultz <david.schultz@earthlink.net> - 2025-06-04 18:11 -0500
  Re: Just wondering... Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-06-16 21:54 -0400
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        Re: Just wondering... John <john@somewhere> - 2025-07-19 01:40 -0500
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          Re: Just wondering... dxf <dxforth@gmail.com> - 2025-07-20 12:00 +1000
          Re: Just wondering... Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co> - 2025-07-19 23:00 -0400

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