Wait to really get hooked I have over 1000 books and manuals stored in 4 locations in 2 States. Keep Computing John At 05:43 PM 2/6/98 PST, you wrote:

It would depend on if you mean computer books, or books in general. For computers the answer is probably 100's, for all books, 1000's. As for storage, I've got a pair of 10x10 climate controlled storage units (the climate control is for the ~10,000 comics). Not quite, there is still the Amiga, now owned by Gateway 2000. In fact I'm in the process of upgrading my A3000 (almost a classic) with a HiRes video board tonite. I bought the video board with the intention of putting it in the _new_ Amiga I'm planning on getting in a couple months. Getting new Amiga's is pretty easy. BTW the new Amiga's are supposed to be Dual processor, a 680x0 and a PPC, which means the latest accelerators (which have this setup) are worth getting. You can also get new Atari clones, but it's hard. When I worked on a Honeywell DPS-8 Mainframe in DC, the whole third floor of the building was a IBM 370 floor. I believe they had five systems in all. The fourth floor was a small VAX. The Honeywell was the mid-sized of the three systems :^) and our floor was still probably more than half the size of a basketball court. The 370 floor would have been the size of about 5 basketball courts IIRC with several Terabytes of DASD! Of course now you can get Auspex Fileservers that will hold over a Tb using off the shelf hard drives. Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | For Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ | | For the collecting of Classic Computers with info on them. | | see http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/museum.html |