I hear you, but mostly I don't do hand-me-downs. When I get a new to me computer, I buy it a good sized, brand new HDD and chuck the old one into a box if it has anything on it I might want to move somewhere. When I upgrade a machine I already have, I still chuck the old HDD in the box as a backup of the files I transfer to the new machine.

Some of the drives went bye-bye with the storage room, but I still have a few that are like finding time capsules from one of my previous lives.

Heck, I've got computers that ARE time capsules from previous lives, like PowerDuo, it still has all the bookkeeping records from the business I closed up almost nine years ago on its HDD.

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The Tempo Trio was MADE for these machines . . . and that funny lookin' TAM thing. )