My PC's hard drive is a graveyard of old legacy files of things that don't exist anymore, going back several generations

[hunter]

12. I have files going back to the 'seventies...

... and emulators for most of the computers and calculators I've used.

The first serious operating system I used was BSD. My all time favorite computers were the Atari 8 bits. The last Microsoft operating system I used on my home computers was Windows 98SE. I have about 40,000 photographs. I also have MP3s of my entire CD collection.

One of the reasons I switched to Linux was that it makes upgrading to a new computer easy. Once I've got the new machine running It's almost a drag-and-drop. I don't have to re-install or re-register any proprietary software.

My old proprietary Atari, MSDOS, and Windows stuff doesn't know it's running on emulated machines on new computers. Getting that stuff to work was a one-time problem.

The growth in hard drive capacities has easily kept up with the growth of my data hoard. It's simply not worth my time to sort anything.