Re: giving my entire computer colletion away

["Clockmeister" <whowhere@andwhy.com>]

"David Murray" <adric22@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
1162308181.352263.78160@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com">news:1162308181.352263.78160@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.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.

I bought my house at age 24 and it was paid off 6 years later with help from 
my other half who also works full time :-)

> 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.
>

I would be tempted to pick it up and at least save any socketed chips. They 
don't take much space and could be important in the future when supplies run 
out.
Then again, where do you draw the line...