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Willenium says: I had to bring some floppy disks into work which I had been saving for 10 years "in case I might need them". Tell us when your hoarding skills have come in useful (or not, as the case may be)

(, Thu 3 May 2012, 14:03)
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Back in the days when software licences were valuable, and pirate warez was few and far between
I spent quite a lot of effort stealing software from my workplace: burning CD copies, writing down licence keys and CD ID's, buying extra licences on the company accounts and saving them for myself in the hope it would go unnoticed. It was no small potatos, either. In 1999, a single Authoware licence went for £5000. The first 3D Studio Max cost £7000 and needed a dongle which I'd conveniently 'lost' in order to obtain a second one. My whole stash was worth at least £30,000 if you bought them directly.
Anyway, this year when doing some spring cleaning, I came across a box I'd been squirreling away, a long cylinder of dusty cds tied up with string. It's all there, unused: Dreamweaver 3 Ultradev, QuarkXpress 4.1, Lotus Notes, Authoware Attain, Photoshop 5(with the magic lassoo). Current estimated value: £10 (some of the CD were rewritable)
(, Mon 7 May 2012, 18:31, 2 replies)
mmmm... admission of corporate fraud in archiveable written format *drools*

(, Mon 7 May 2012, 19:10, closed)
this will come back and count against me when I run for Prime Minister in 2018, won't it?
Damn you, Internet!
(, Mon 7 May 2012, 19:25, closed)

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