Taking control of your collection

From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
Date: Tue Feb 5 10:46:42 2002

Bob Shannon wrote:
>
> What I'm doing it working to trade bredth for depth.

Yes, that is a much more concise way of putting it. That's what I was
trying to get at in my response.
 
> Once you have a physical limit, you may start looking at some items in
> your
> collection
> through different eyes. Find something that links the items in your
> collection,
> otherwise its an accumulation, not a collection. Also a common linkage
> will
> often
> mean that some of the spare parts and documentation is useful to more
> than
> one
> machine.
>
> The result will be a more managable, coherent collection that takes up
> less
> space, and
> is far more presentable as a valuable collection as opposed to rooms
> overfull with
> what appears to be scrap.

I agree, and I have to work more on this myself. I get made fun of by
friends about all my computers, which I normally ignore. To a certain
point I don't care if they understand or not, but I would like to have
everything working, organized, and having logical connections with
machines, etc. I don't know if I'll ever get to the point of having
logical connections between machines, but my collection is smaller than
many on the list too. Hopefully, eventually my friends will at least
respect my computers from a collection perspective, and quit referring
to them as my 20 286's :-) I only have one 286, it's an IBM AT!

Something else I thought of last night. Don't take something apart, and
then go work on something else. I'm famous for this. The above
mentioned AT is sitting in pieces. It is a complete computer that needs
to be cleaned, and reassembled. It looks like a pile of junk to most
people, However.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Received on Tue Feb 05 2002 - 10:46:42 GMT