I'll bet some of those books you got rid of were more than 16 years old. That's how long ago I was storing files on removable Syquest and tape drives that I tossed out.
I saw on telly that the museum of technology here has electronic data storage devises that aren't too old but they have no way of accessing the data because there are no readers that read it anymore.
So I hope you start a backup regime to future proof your collection when you finally get it sorted.
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