I still have two Osborne-1's, an Osborne Executive, a dual 20MB 5 1/4" Bernoulli Box, and a Compaq SLT-286 laptop (with docking station) in my "old equipment locker" (g) along with a bunch of CP/M software manuals and about 30 8" single sided-single density floppies.

Worst part is, most of the machines still run...

>>When I hear that our Agency sometimes donates our old computers to schools, I cringe. This is about as useful as when someone asked me if I thought they could still use the old DOS CompuServe software [CIS] could be used for internet access so their stores would not have to buy at least 1 new computer wint Win9x on it.
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>Right, obsolete stuff is exactly that - obsolete. It would be great to find a real use for some of it, but there probably isn't any.
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>It would be interesting to take a poll and see how much old computer equipment and software people have lying around in their basements or closets, which they're reluctant to throw out because it has 'value'. I'll start: among other things, a 14" monitor, a 486/50MHz laptop computer, an IBM 360 Assembler Language reference manual (OK, that one has sentimental value), several year's editions of TurboTax, a DOS version of Quicken, a professional developer's version of MS-BASIC on 5 1/4" floppies, and a copy of Borland's Object Vision.