• veee@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    I don’t know how long it’d last, but an external CD-ROM drive could be useful in this day and age.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafe
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      39 minutes ago

      I’d add external floppy drives to that, and any means of digitizing VHS tapes and audio cassettes. Many people will need these once in a lifetime to try to recover information of personal value from obsolete media, but almost no one will need them more than once.

    • Otter Raft@lemmy.caOP
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      10 hours ago

      Definitely, mine has been sitting around for the majority of the time but I still need it every now and then.