Uh oh - I guess Claude and myself would have some strong
diskusions while having a beer.
> -Only 1 copy of a machine. Keep the best & cleanest. Trash, sell or giveaway
> duplicates. I was keeping extra for trades but find they take up too much
> space.
NO TRASHING if it can be avoided bby any means. There was a
time when computers of various kind where coming along all
the time - now there are even huge fleamarkets without a
single C64 ! And I'm talking huge ! Ask Salam.
While I agree that hordeing 50 C64 is a not so bright idea,
I have more than one unit of particular machines ... and
even more, when is a unit the same ?
> -No matching printers for each system. I abandonned printers long time ago
> or it just takes up too much space.
Again, all the specific printers are a thing to rescue.
Of course I agree if we talk about plain standard printers.
But as soon as we reach OEM versions or realy specific ones ?
> -No books. Only one or 2 max complete reference per system. Or then it gets
> outta control.
> -No magazines.
Doubble Argh. If I had to decide between keeping Manuals,
Magazines and third party books or the computers, I'd rather
give the computers away.
> -Only 1 or 2 peripherals like floppy drives and such....I dont try to get
> every peripheral for each system...
Here again, The sopecial perhipherals of a machine are the
real pride of a collection - just the computer box itself
is a rather boring thing.
> -Only 1 "branded monitor" model per system. Monitors use a lotta space.
Jep, here I may agree - just again, this is only valid when
we talk about true standard stuff - aka PCs
> -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"
Same as for books - I'd rather keep dokumentation and software
than the computer (I hope I never have to proof this in large
scale).
> -Get many shelves, nice ones.
100% correct. I got a full truck load of Lundia shelves, and
there's nothing better - and it is incredible what you can
store if you use shelfs. I even found that you get more parts
in a shelf then just by pileing them. this may sound unbelivable,
but it's true.
To add a final point, my main goal is to preserve real setups,
or at least combinations like they could have been. From an
'archeologic' point of view this is again more important than
the system with all peripherals - it is way to easy to present
a minimum or maximum configuration today than reting real setups.
Gruss
H.
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