Taking control of your collection

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Tue Feb 5 02:11:03 2002

>-Only 1 copy of a machine. Keep the best & cleanest. Trash, sell or

Hmmm, there is the problem of spare parts for some of these systems....

>-No books. Only one or 2 max complete reference per system. Or then it gets
>outta control.

OK, this one I flat out disagree with!!!! Without documentation an old
computer is worthless. (same goes for software) My DEC hardware
collection is big, but my collection of manuals is almost as big! (if it
wasn't for the PDP-11/44 it would be bigger)

>-Get many shelves, nice ones.

Agreed!

                        Zane

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