Taking control of your collection

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Feb 5 05:56:17 2002

On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Hans Franke wrote:

> 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.

You know pickings are slim when you can't even find a C64 to ignore.

> 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 ?

C64s went through so many revisions during their product cycle, almost no
two C64s will be exactly alike. I have somewhere around 150 of them now.
One day the C64 supercomputer will be a reality.

> > -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.

Great answer.

> 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.

It's amazing how much space get's freed up once I stack stuff on a shelf.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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