Re: giving my entire computer colletion away

["David Murray" <adric22@yahoo.com>]

> > If you don't have room, rent a storage shed for $50 a month. I do. I
> > have loads of useless crap. Maybe one day I will be rich enough to buy
> > a house. Then I will collect even more!

Well, maybe if you live in that house alone.  But if you are married to
a woman, beware she will not allow a huge amount of antique computers
to be stored there.  Unless you are fortunate to find one of those very
rare women who are also Commodore geeks.  This is highly unlikely
considering when Commodore's were populare in the 1980's, very few
girls cared anything at all about computers.

> ****, I owned my first house at age 30 and don't consider myself to be rich
> by any stretch of the imagination.

I bought my first house when I was 26, and I still live there.
However, both my wife and I work full time in order to afford to live
there.

Continuing on about the collection, though.  My collection is about as
big as it will ever get unless we move to a new house with a lot more
storage space.  I have almost every 8-bit commodore ever made (except a
PET and the CBM machines) and also have a lot of Apples and Amigas.
But they rarely see the light of day.  Unfortunatly, when I see a
Commodore 64 being thrown away somewhere, my heart tells me to save it
and preserve it.  However, I have no more space for it.  And I know
that when I die, it is likely my children will throw the stuff away at
that time anyway.  So I would only be postponing the inevitable, and
wasting valuable space in my house in the meantime.