First post, by TheMobRules
I'm sure many of us here have, at some point in our lives, stupidly thrown away some item that we considered worthless because of its age or lack of usefulness due to acquiring newer, shinier hardware.
In my case I could think of my first PC case, one of those lovely generic beige AT cases with MHz display and all that, but it was so beat up that it doesn't make me feel too guilty. Also, my last 486 motherboard, with PCI slots and an AMD DX4-100, however I gifted it to a friend that couldn't afford a new board at the time when I upgraded to socket 7, so it seemed like the right thing to do.
But there is an item that I cannot forgive myself for recklessly trashing: my old Sound Blaster Pro 2 😢 It was my first sound card, that I used from 1994 up to late 1999. I don't remember the exact model but it was a PnP version with proprietary CD-ROM drive connector. The card, box and manuals were all in almost pristine condition. Until one day, after buying a Sound Blaster Live! X-Gamer I needed to clear some storage space and just threw the entire thing... my reasoning at the time was "I have an SB Live! now, I won't be needing this ancient piece of crap anymore!" 😠
As you can probably imagine, I regret having done that. Not to the point of buying an overpriced SBPro2 off e-bay, but anyway... 😢
So, what's the item you regret throwing away the most?
