Scott Stevens wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:44:22 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Jim Brain wrote:
I arrived to find the "mother of all
packrats". I rather wished I
had brought the trailer. For various reasons, the owner had not
started packing, so we spent 8 years packing and loading. I managed
to get it all in the shortbed quad cab truck (with topper), but not
a square foot to spare.
8 years! My gawd, that is epic! ;)
And to think you're only offering 24 hours.
This is what you get when you rush off responses while heading out the
door to work. And, ended up late anyway, by a half hour.
It sure seemed like forever.
I arrive at the front door of his house to see a stack of maybe 7 CBM
boxes. I thought "this will be easy, I'll be on the road in a half
hour." He welcomed me inside, and then showed me the computer room.
Hmmm, two systems. Still not bad. I'll be able to leave in a hour, 2 tops.
Then, we ventured to the basement. Everytime I'd turn around around
he'd uncover more CBM stuff. And more, and more. It was like a
archeological dig. Stuff was buried under newer projects (painting and
woodworking). THe aforementioned 3B2 was only spotted as we moved a
bunch of wood away from a wall. At the end, I found copies of CBM mags
interspersed between phone bills and tax assessments.
I cmae home and told my wife I had found a bigger packrat than I. We
agreed that it's not how much stuff you collect, it's how organized you are.
Jim
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Jim Brain, Brain Innovations
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Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times!