Easy to say when you work for a billionaire.
Oh,
yes...
You could ask your boss to send me some money - if it's enough for
living plus massive amounts of space, I'll gladly dedicate myself to
installing the brand new European Computer History Center where I can
pile up, inventorize, scan, repair, exhibit and program all the stuff I
like to play with -- a few million Euro would be a good starting point .-)
Storage space costs real money, and the payments never
stop.
Yes, that's common reality :-(
I know people who have lost collections because they
couldn't
afford the rent to store it.
That's one of my concerns since I started
collecting stuff... I always
have a kind of "core collection list" in mind that I would try to
preserve at any cost (if necessary, I'd sleep on it). But that has in
fact become the smaller part of the stuff I currently have :-(
So thinking about storage has become a major part of the "hobby".
The RP drives are still sitting in an open garage somewhere. Not good.
Will move stuff soon. But it's difficult to find space. And.... I'm
considered insane by many people who know me. They say "get rid of that
stuff, that's junk" or such alike. So it's not easy at all to be a
vintage computer collector. I feel quite alone with it here in northern
Germany...
I also know people who are out of
work in the valley right now who are downsizing their collections
to be able to survive.
Must be one of the reasons for the massive amount of
minicomputers on
eBay during the last months/year?
Best wishes,
Philipp