It’s “American Pickers”…Only The Stuff’s Pretty Worthless
by Ron Daly
I like “American Pickers”. I’m a big yard sale guy and I love the idea of getting a big return on a junky little find. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, after all.
Unless it’s just plain ol’ trash.
We were cleaning out the office the other day and I discovered a few rare gems from a bygone age. Among them:
Floppy disks! These little wonders used to be our way of moving files from one computer to another. Then, it was CDs. Then, it was thumb drives. Then, it was shared networks. And suddenly, these little springy disks just didn’t cut the mustard. A little creative math tells us that a 2GB thumb drive holds as much information as 1,422 floppy disks. So why bother?
Picked Price: ~$10 for a box of five in 1998
Current Value: Nuthin’. We don’t even have a PC with a floppy drive anymore.