SPRING CLEANING.

Inside Business, May, 2001 by HANSON, DAN

Our entreprenerd clears the dust to update the past year's hot topics.

My office is loaded with stuff. I don't expect the 8-inch floppy disks to be useful again, but they hold programs that ran the old Cleveland Municipal Stadium scoreboard. How can I pitch those?

And the TRS-80 Model 1. That was my first computer. It stays. When you spend a couple grand for a 16KB system (yes KB, not MB), you hang onto it. You never know when the Smithsonian Institution might call.

Things have a nasty way of accumulating. The same goes for this column. I've covered a lot of things over the last 12 months, and many of the topics need updating. Spring presents a perfect opportunity to review some of the issues and see what's new.

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