First personal computer nostalgia

I started in computers back at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 1967 with a Fortran IV class and continued on with 360 Assembly and Cobol. After graduation, I went to work for Nabisco. After being transferred to the head offices in NYC, I managed to get transferred to Richmond, VA where a new state of the art plant was being constructed. During that time, I attended a number of DEC training classes up in Maynard at the new (at that time) training facility. While in Richmond, I worked mainly on the PDP16 and 11/05 with a small amount of work on the 11/45. From there: 1979 or so - bought a Vector I (which I still have). 1979 or so - bought an Atari 400 and peripherals (which I still have.) 1980 or so - traded a milling machine for a Northstar Horizon (which I still have) 1984 or so - bought a Corona 400 luggable 1985 onwards - People started giving me the old S-100 computers they were throwing away It was about this time I began thinking of saving this stuff because of the historical value. Things get mixed up from this point onwards, but I ended up not wanting to see these things just thown away and ended up with a wide array of computers including a couple of Altairs used at Raytheon that were going to be tossed with the guy was leaving Santa Barbara. And things just went from there. By 1991, I probably had about 100 computers or so. Documentation is something I am always looking for. I had built up a network of friends who kept an eye open for stuff being tossed or sold they thought I would be interested in. One of the few times I actually bought something for more than a couple of dollars for the collection was from someone in the LA area who was selling a Heathkit H-8 system for $100. Turned out to be a good buy as it included the processor, 5 1/4" floppy drives, 8" drives, spare cards, and boxes of documentation and software totalling some 10 - 15 cubic feet of stuff. Somewhere around 1996, I found out about this listserver and joined. Sellam was one of the people who had a vision of a classic computer show and started VCF from conversations started on this listserver. We have a lot of people on this list with a wealth of knowledge who are more than willing to share and I have referred a number of people to this list. Ah, life is good!