Thoughts on Taking Inventory

From: Unusual systems <kstumpf_at_unusual.on.ca>
Date: Sat Feb 27 21:26:08 1999

Cataloging your collection has many direct and indirect benefits. By all
means do it.

There isn't anything unique about collecting computers. It takes the same
pedigree-type data as does collecting Conestoga wagons. System -
sub-assemblies - related items (e.g. documentation). Please don't spend too
much time on this. The Computer Museum has done it. The Smithsonian has done
it. Ask them. It is covered in the Guide to Collecting Computers...field
definitions, etc. are included. If in doubt, don't do this as a "community"
excerise, just ask the pros and move forward. Ask you local association of
sewing machine collectors, county museum, etc.

The issue of compatibility between one collector's database and anothers is
easily handled by remapping source to destination fields, if and when an
exchange takes place.

Actually cataloging your collection is a fun activity. You re-discover all
sorts of items you forgot you had.

Have fun.
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Kevin Stumpf * Unusual systems * www.unusual.on.ca
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Collector - Commercial Mainframes & Minicomputers from
 the 50s, 60s, & 70s and control panels and consoles.

Author & Publisher - A Guide to Collecting Computers &
Computer Collectibles * ISBN 0-9684244-0-6
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Received on Sat Feb 27 1999 - 21:26:08 GMT