Spending was: ebay question

----- Original Message ----- From: "James Dickens" <jdickens(a)ameritech.net> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 6:43 PM Subject: Re: Spending was: ebay question Transceiver serial I got one of these: http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=570&item=IR… and it works ok for my small electronic jobs (I hate soldering). I think if you mess around with electronics enough you need to get one since you will probably use it at least a few times a year. Tools and original manuals are very important for the hobby. I find that I spend more money upgrading the old computers then the actual cost of the computer itself. Quite a few times I end up paying more for shipping then the item itself costs. And any serious collector will have a large set of spare parts handy including all sorts of cables, adapters, drives, media, monitors, etc. I also go nuts on original software and manuals for my units. So buying a cheap 8/16 bit computer means I will spend many times that amount for addons plus lots of space to set it up and store those addons. Collecting tends to snowball on you if your not carefull. Thanks god I didnt get into the larger older stuff that needs higher voltage and tons of space to run, then again I am still young who knows where this will go.