And chances are every so often those boxes are mined in search of an item that one remembers having owned some time ago.
Chances are, too, that the expedition is interrupted by encounters with things long forgotten.
Last week I dove into the boxes, looking for the shop manual for an ancient British Seagull outboard motor. And in some ways it was, or else still isn't. Anyone who thinks the Linux desktop is primitive should see the sheer ghastliness of these early efforts to put a GUI atop DOS and its derivatives. It's easy to forget it, but in 1989 Unix was as old as DOS is now. And while I would have expected it in something like Byte, I was surprised to see two stories in PC Magazine having to do with Unix.