28 Dec
2005
28 Dec
'05
5:09 p.m.
On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:26:13 -0700
Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article <43B31B08.7090308 at jetnet.ab.ca>,
woodelf <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> writes:
I am a collector, and consider myself somewhat of a conservator,
but I don't personally have interest in maintaining a museum.
Right now my storage system borders on being a disaster, in part
because of a lack of organization and optimization of space.
I have 3-4 spare acres here, though, and long term plans include
putting down a cement slab out there and then a pole building.
Insulation and heat eventually, so it can be a place to operate
instead of just for storage. At present the second bedroom is
completely crammed, my 'main labspace' room is so congested that
I can't even get to the electronics bench..., I have to be very
careful what I leave in the garage (unheated, somewhat unsealed
against the elements)
I am at the point where it's time to post giveaways and
real-cheap-sale items on eBay just to get rid of some of the
excess, which isn't necessarily museum-grade stuff, but then... I
don't necessarily subscribe to the 'ten year rule' (make that- I
don't subscribe to it AT ALL in my personal collection. I have
some things much older, and quite a bit of newer stuff that I
like having, too. Usually things that don't get mentioned here
because that isn't the focus of this list, but it belongs at
least in this post.
I'm a hardware person, and what I really want to focus more time
on is using some of the 'classic' silicon I have accumulated.
Z80 sbcs (real Z80, not the new clones and ASIC things) and the
Intel 8088 project that I've half completed. All those wonderful
8255, 6821 and Z80 peripheral chips, all the SRAM parts I have,
etc. I'm now in the process of dipping my feet in the GnuEDA
package, because I need a decent robust schematic capture program
that isn't either an illegal 'evaluation' copy or a four figure
investment. In it's recent incarnation built on NetBSD/i386 I am
so far very impressed with Gschem. (I *like* the fact that I
have the complete source for the entire setup. Schematics I
create are mine forever, etc. etc.)
Housing my collection? It's a *disaster* but my wife puts up
with it. She isn't even complaing loudly yet that I haven't
moved the bandsaw she gave me for Christmas (she works at
Menards) out of the living room yet.
http://www.pdp-11.nl/ I like Henk's PDP-11
collection here : see 'the
making of'
An building may be limited in size if you live in a urban area.
Yikes! Brick walls?!?
My lot is fairly large (0.23 acres) and I have a huge area in the back
of the lot that is essentially "unused", where I could build
something. But for a public museum I'd rather not have it in the back
yard of my house, so I am considering purchasing some undeveloped land
in a cheaper part of the city.