What shall I do with all these old Mac sampler CDs?

[Jorpho]

Remember when Macintosh decided to suddenly start calling their operating system Mac OS? Remember eWorld and Spectre? Those of you who know someone who bought a Macintosh about 12 years ago may also distantly recall a large CD sampler collection that came with the computer in a red plasticky folder. Today you might call it a quaint reminder of the heydey of "multimedia".

Quite some time ago I relieved someone of a large pile of old Macintosh stuff. When he received his red plasticky folder all those years ago, it was slightly warped and some of the discs were damaged, so he requested another. The next pack was similarly damaged, and he requested yet another. And so he received three sets of this CD sampler collection, and I've been hauling them around ever since I took them off his hands.

I've tested all of the discs and most of them work surprisingly well, probably because the data on each disc only takes up a fraction of the disc surface. Perhaps someone here is feeling nostalgic and would like some of them?

Here's what there is:

• Adobe Photodeluxe 1.0
• Quicken Special Edition
• The Amazing Writing Machine
  (Broderbund, apparently works with Windows too. Only two of these.)
• The 1996 Groiler Multimedia Encyclopedia 8.0.3
• 3D Atlas 1.1b
  ("ABC World Reference". Only two of these too.)
• Descent
  (MacPlay, with full CD audio! Apparently some of these might have defects.)
• American Heritage Children's Dictionary
• Our Times: Multimedia Encyclopedia of the 20th Century
• Now Touchbase and Datebook Pro CD 4.2
• Club Kidsoft demos
• Blockbuster Video Guide to Movies & Videos
• Thinkin' Things Collection 2
• Mayo Clinic Family Health

If I had any sense I would just pitch these. Any interest?

[PixelSmasher]

[*]Mayo Clinic Family Health[/LIST]

I'm always interested in Mayonaisse.

[JustRob]

Shit, I'll take them off your hands. PM if you wanna get rid of them.

[Hwj_Chim]

You could make a disco ball with them.

[Jorpho]

You could make a disco ball with them.

Well, you could do that with any old bunch of CDs.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'd never heard of PhotoDeluxe until now - seems to be the precursor to Photoshop Elements.

Nifty, but I doubt I'll need anything more than the copy of Photoshop already loaded onto one of my Macs...

[Jorpho]

Shit, I'll take them off your hands. PM if you wanna get rid of them.

Good of you to offer. Shipping costs for the lot of them is going to be expensive, though - they fill up an entire spindle/"cake box".

[Jorpho]

No further interest, I gather?