On Aug 21, 12:16, James Rice wrote:
> 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?
my collection lives in our (small) spare room.
it's more or less all runable, but it takes about five minutes to
shuffle stuff so that a particular machine is accessible.
i have:
sgi indy, indigo2 and indigo,
sun 3/60, 3/160 (currently non-op), ipc, classic, and a modified elc,
acorn a310 and r260,
hp 9000/735 and laserjet 4si,
next mono slab,
apple lc475 and mp100,
the inevitable pc stuff - 3 desktops and a laptop
the two main obstacles to the collection are the space, it is a very
small room and there is barely room for a chair left, and the stairs,
which are steep and narrow. getting some of the heavier stuff up there
is, err, interesting, isn't it, pete?
my partner is very good about it all. i do try not to anagonise her too
much by keeping all the machine in one room.. mostly. i got her to agree
in principle to using a module from an sgi o2000 as a coffee table in
the living room though - quite impressive, i thought.
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J.F.Carter http://www.jfc.org.uk/
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 07:29:04 BST