3 Apr
2011
3 Apr
'11
12:44 p.m.
Original picture looks like a miniature version of my garage back
in the early 90's. Walls lined with VT100's and variants stacked up high...
less than fifty of them in all but still a lot for one guy :-)
> Is he a collector / restorer sort of person or a
"black hole"? I've
> tripped over a number of folks with large quantities of classic gear who
> seem to playing the "..he who dies with the most units, wins" game.
> Drives me crazy when someone who doesn't touch the equipment, doesn't use
> it or display it (in fact, may not even know where it is), has 6-10 of
The reasoning behind my garage of VT100's was mostly related to
making working units from broken units taken in during hauls.
I put no energy doing board-level fixes but swapped major subassemblies
with wild abandon.
Lots of Southern California hobbyists ended up with several of my
fixed VT100's :-).
I can see it, in some cases, evolving from "having some spares" to
"having so many spares" to "not needing any spares because I fix
everything at the board level" but I never got there!
Tim.