{"id":1747,"date":"2022-09-12T10:19:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2022-09-12T11:11:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T09:11:17","slug":"lifetime-mistakes-or-how-to-get-rid-of-valuable-retro-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/?p=1747","title":{"rendered":"Lifetime mistakes (or how to get rid of valuable retro stuff)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think that I&#8217;m not alone: How many of you have, at some point of your life, got rid of retro stuff that now you are regretting every day? I did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Consoles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Game Gear. <\/strong>It&#8217;s easy: I had a game gear and I sold it (probably for only a few pennies). WHY?<\/li><li><strong>Master System II.<\/strong> Its big sister, with Alex Kidd in ROM and a few games: I sold it for 2000PTA (12 EUR). WHY???<\/li><li><strong>Nintendo DS<\/strong>. The first Nintendo DS. I gave it away. WHY?<\/li><li><strong>PSP<\/strong>. I sold it as I really didn&#8217;t use it. But I&#8217;m regretting anyway.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Computers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Sinclair ZX Spectrum<\/strong>. With membrane keyboard. And cassette corder. I give it away, and I don&#8217;t even remember it. WHY?<\/li><li><strong>MSX Philips VG-8235<\/strong>. A retro passionate guy gave it to me circa 2005. And inexplicably, I got rid of it few years later. WHY??<\/li><li><strong>Sparc Station IPX<\/strong>. With external CD-ROM, tape drive, 19&#8243; Sony CRT monitor and optical mouse. I got rid of it for a misery. WHY???<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And you? What stuff you got rid of, and you are still regretting now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that I&#8217;m not alone: How many of you have, at some point of your life, got rid of retro stuff that now you are regretting every day? I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1749,"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eines.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}