5 Feb
2002
5 Feb
'02
2:20 a.m.
From: Claude.W <claudew(a)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