Room for Collections

From: John R. Keys Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Aug 21 18:44:29 2001

In my 2nd bedroom I have up and running a clone 233 for my main use
everyday (I build it), iMac, PowerMac 6100/60,NeXT Turbo Color
Slab,Power Computing Mac clone with 16" Apple monitor,Apple Network
Server 500/132,Mac TAM,Lisa II,TRS-80 Pocket Computer,Vtech Power Zone
2000,Osborne I,Mac 180 laptop,Compaq 386 laptop,NEC 486 laptop,Newton
130 MessagePad,iPAQ,Deskjet 890C,Color StyleWriter 2400,TI99/4A with
dual floppies,and a SPARCstation2. In the main mainroom I have up and
going Apple IIc,PowerPC 5400/180,PowerPC 5260/120,IBM APTIVA tower
P166,Fujitsu PenCentra 130, and a Laserjet 5L.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Rice" <jrice_at_texoma.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 12:16 PM
Subject: Room for Collections


> On another list, there has been a long thread about SO's and room for
> the hobby. Does anyone else keep their collection set up and
> functioning? Does your SO understand? I'm luck in that I have a
large
> room to set mine up. I currently have up and running:
>
> NeXT TC slab, 17" Trinitron, laser printer, SCSI box, flatbed scanner
>
> Sgi Indy, 20" Trinitron, SCSI box, Lexmark Optra with PS support
>
> Sun Sparc 5, 20" Trintron
>
> Mac Performa 631CD,DOS board, now just a 15" since the 20" Radius
died,
> StyleWriter 2500, LaserWriter II-NTX, ImageWriter II with LocalTalk
> board
>
> NeXT Cube with Dimension, 17" mono, ext CD rom, laserprinter, soon 21"
> NeXT Hitachi on the Dimension
>
> WinTel machine, 21" Mitsubishi, 19" CTX on Dual Head, Epson AL1000,
> Epson Stylus 1500, Kurta digitizer, flatbed scanner
>
> Commodore 128D, 14" RGB, MPS-803, 2 1571's running CP/M
>
> Intel box booting BeOS, 17" monitor
>
> Other printers and stuff: Calcomp 1043GT plotter("E" size), Zericon
> PC3610 plotter ("D" size), HP LJ4si, HP OfficeJet R60, Canon BJC-4550,
> Canon BJ-230, Tandy DMP-2100, Epson LQ570 (2 of them), Epson AL-1500's
> (2 of them)
>
>
> This doesn't even count the servers in the closet. I just took down
an
> Amiga 3000 that I'm selling. I also have been selling all of the
Apple
> II's ,Tandys and other machines that I collected. Besides, I don't
want
> to keep a lot of boxes in storage, they need to be used and ran.
>
> I've told my wife she is kind of lucky. At least I don't collect
> mainframes.
>
> James
>
> http://home.texoma.net/~jrice
>
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