On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Chuck McManis wrote: > At 03:31 PM 11/24/99 -0500, John B wrote: > >Don't Grrr me guy! If I even tried to keep every mini I get every month

> >wife would divorce me or we would go broke on storage costs. > > Well there is a difference between scrapping it and offering it to

To be fair, many of us don't even get one substantial mini a *year*, let alone one (or several!) per month! I am at what appears to be the lower end of the collecting-voracity continuum (at least for this group!), and I still have trouble finding places to put all my stuff. And my wife is constantly at the brink of "fed-up" with my pitiful little lot and day-long roadtrips to pick up more "junk." Additionally, it's a lot of work to negotiate the pickup/delivery of large, heavy, difficult-to-ship things as well. Not everyone has the time and energy to do that...even as a labor of love. I applaud John for the work he puts into the restoration of the systems he does keep and for the time and effort he puts into sharing it with others (great web page). He obviously has an interest in classic computers that goes beyond how much gold or aluminum is contained within.

Aaron