Taking control of your collection

From: Allison <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Tue Feb 5 10:20:21 2002

From: Claude.W <claudew_at_videotron.ca>


>-No matching printers for each system. I abandonned printers long time ago
>or it just takes up too much space.


One or two for everything here, one dec serial (LA100ro) and one
parallel (Epson LQ570).

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


Full books but stay with families IE: VAX, PDP-11, CPM S100 as a
set covers many varients

>-No magazines.

With care and appling to specific systems or technoligies, not
complete archives of say Byte.

>-Only 1 or 2 peripherals like floppy drives and such....I dont try to get
>every peripheral for each system...

Unless it fits in the box!

>-Only 1 "branded monitor" model per system. Monitors use a lotta space.


Yep same for CRTs, though I do have H19, VT125, VT320, VT340. Then
again It's DEC family skewed plus CPM so it works.

>-If its a vintage system your not going to "use/play with" : then keep very
>little software for each system, only maybe an OS and a few utils, games
>etc...just to "show it off"


Nope, compact it to denser media that can be recoverd to whatever is
needed. Again within a family one program runs on many.

>-Get many shelves, nice ones.


Yep!

>-Frequent cleanings....I do major ones at least 5 times a year a throw out
a
>bunch of stuff....you have to stop saying "yes but I might use it someday"
>at one point and go more like "Whats the chance I am realling gonna use
this
>again or is this really worth keeping"?


Or trade it off for that relly important item(s).

My problem is I have three realted hobbies, Computers, hamradio and
electronics Homebrew (autoconstruct for the EU folks). They overlap and
radio/homebrew instigates the "junquebox" where all good resources are
found.

Allison
Received on Tue Feb 05 2002 - 10:20:21 GMT