At 07:41 AM 6/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Please ponder this question.
>
>We either collect mainframes, minicomputers, or microcomputers. In the mix
>there is hardware, software, documentation, spares, and related material
>such as magazines, books, novelties. There might also be the original
>boxes.
>
>What percentage of your space is taken up by the hardware and how much
>by everything else? What is the ratio of actual computers to all the other
>stuff that goes along with them? Please tell me the catagory(s) of
>computer(s)
>you collect (mainframe, etc.), and what your percentages are.
>
>I am working on an article and also on the 2nd edition of A Guide, so your
>estimates would be very helpful.
>
>Thank you very much.
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>Kevin Stumpf * Unusual systems * www.unusual.on.ca
>+1.519.744.2900 * EST/EDT GMT - 5
>
>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
>.
>
I collect home Micros and live in a 1BR apartment. Most of my computer
apparatus is in my BR but there is some overflow into the LR like my TRS-80
M2, 3 of the huge HDDs, and peripherals and disks, and where I also have
other non-comp. electronic equipment. Fortunately I have 12' ceilings.
Docs and disks take up around 50 sq.ft.x 10" on shelves and in a filing
cabinet.
Monitors and terminals take up about 42 sq.ft.x 1' on top of my
full-length former dresser.
A row of creatively stacked desktops and printers is around 48 sq ft in
front of that.
Racks and cabinets with computers, peripherals, parts and test equipment
take up another 50 sq.ft.x18"
Workbench and primary computers and equipment occupy about 30 sq.ft.x3'
under the shelving.
Wasting no storage potential, the space under my bed is also occupied, mainly
by periperals. Another 24 sq.ft. You do the mathematics. xxx cu. ft.
Do I wish I had a garage ? Hell yes !!
But a museum-workspace would be much better, even if it meant grubby budding
JDs got to mistreat them.
ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
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Received on Fri Jun 04 1999 - 06:02:17 BST