Remember when we used to carry a whole binder of driver CDs to every job?

Now I just pull up a flash drive with everything in folders, and that change hit me about 5 years ago when a client's XP machine needed the original NIC driver and I had to dig through a box of 50 discs at my shop.

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seth_carr21d ago

Carried a binder full of those discs for years and half of them were scratched to hell anyway. Now I just have a 64gb flash drive labeled 'Drivers' that I probably drop in a coffee cup half the time. Funny how we used to hoard those discs like gold but they were always missing the one you actually needed. I still have a shoebox of them in my garage that I swear I'll sort through one day. But let's be real, that box is probably just gonna sit there until I move out and discover it's been chewed up by mice.

blair_davis20d ago

Mice?! Dude that actually made me cringe. I still have PTSD from the time a family of them nested in my old PC tower and chewed through some of my game disks. There's something about finding chewed up discs that hits different than just scratched ones. Like at least with scratches you can pretend maybe it'll still work. Chewed up is just straight up destroyed. I'd honestly rather find out the box got water damaged or something than find mouse teeth marks on a Windows 98 driver disk. That's the kind of thing that makes you question your whole life choices up to that point.

campbell.robin20d ago

Laughing at the mental image of a mouse chewing through a Windows 98 driver disk like it's some kind of fancy cheese snack. Honestly that binder was just a shiny coaster collection 90% of the time anyway. Maybe the mice are doing us a favor by finally trashing that shoebox of obsolete drivers we'll never actually need.