Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for December 19, 2020

Yes. They are sorted alphabetically and hang in folders.

Hand him a fountain pen and tell him to change the batteries.

An external hard drive that functions without energy and its data are still available when the web is down….Problem: it functions only to users with more than 2 neuron cells

Rotary dial phone next up.

No cadavers in there, but if you know where to look you can find where the bodies are buried.

Not having been in an office in years…

I’ve never thought about all that old paperwork that took up so much space in the file cabinets I once used.

I know there are statutory imitations on how long documents MUST be kept…

after two to seven years most can be safely discarded.

But certain real estate papers, for one, and probably court documents, and who knows what else, need to be accessible for far longer.

I remember when the county put all the old property records on microfiche (a horrible system that gave me motion sickness to use)…

and the library soon did the same with the card catalogues.

With miniaturization, the bulk of all those file cabinets disappeared even before computers took over.

I suppose most businesses or agencies, that once needed to keep hard copies for a billion years,

are allowed by now to save only digital contracts and signatures.

But have they paid for their entire stockpiles of more or less useless, ancient documents to be digitally copied and stored?

The mind boggles at the massive energy and expense, just in case one bit of paper out of thousands is ever needed again.

Then again renting space for physical file cabinets is expensive too.

The good old days when “CC” meant carbon copy and it was on onion skin paper. White Out anyone???

Many years ago my teenage son was visiting from his mom’s. We were cleaning the basement when he came across my old K&E Sliderule. He said,“Wow! I’ve seen pictures of these, but I never thought I see one for real!!”

I’m a computer consultant, and many of my older clients have trouble distinguishing between memory and hard drive. The easiest explanation for the older set is that the hard drive is the computer’s file cabinet.

The drawers look awfully shallow.

A million witty replies come to mind, but I’m sure that everyone else will cover them handily.

Look’s more like a microfilm or fiche cabinet. To small for folders.

I think it might be a “pantry”. You keep pans in it.

The original office cloud system.