deathshadow
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*NOTE* none of this is actually up for sale yet, I'm just thinking... made me wonder if others have similar issues with their collections. I'm also just thinking aloud here.
I've been considering the need to downsize my collection a bit, and was just thinking of priorities and what I use, what I don't, what's important to me, and what isn't... Simple fact is I don't have room to have them all set up at once, nor am I likely to so...
It's funny because what's rising to the top of the list to go isn't something I'd have expected -- my Apple IIe. I DON'T USE IT!. I might consider keeping it if I had the matching monitor, but right now it's just sucking down space on a bench doing nothing. (that could be better filled with a recently acquired Rainbow 100)
Maybe it's because I found Woz's alleged "cost saving" shortcuts (that still doesn't explain it costing more than more capable competitors -- oh wait, Jobbo the clown's greed) pointlessly aggravating... maybe it's because I never actually saw one in person (I honestly thought was advertised in magazines that nobody actually owned) until around 1988 (where my school had them all locked in a room as they cost too much to risk the students damaging them -- that's not a joke. I don't think they were ever even powered on once) despite being hip-deep in Microcomputing since '77. Maybe it's because I was a "Wayne Green country" TRS-80 or die child but...
...I'm just NOT an Apple guy. I thought having one and actually getting to used it would change that -- but the more and more I deal with it the more and more it aggravates me like everything else crApple has ever made which is why it has sat there without power since... hell, this time last year?
I find my Minus-60 more fun and interesting.
Much less I probably have enough spare parts in the bin to build another one sans case if the mood REALLY struck me. Got that spare duodisk too that I can't use since no controller and to make it more aggravating, it's the 25 pin version.
Apples still remain a "why the *** did anyone buy these" for me. A fact made worse by their revisionist history and overblowing their importance in same.
I'm pondering parting with my loaded out Coco 1 (with the full 2 keyboard -- kind of wish I had a melted for it)[/i], though the trio sitting in the garage gathering dust (two of them are 32k piggyback ECB, one is 4k standard basic with a shattered case) should go first. Because I have a 128k Coco 3 the others should go... but the Coco is near and dear to my heart. Partly because when I was taking Pascal classes in school I could go home and actually run the code under OS9-- when the classes at that point were PURELY theoretical because... uhm, see above.
The Sharp PC 7000 should go, one of the two floppies has problems (not good since they're technically one drive sharing the same spindle) ... but I just LOVE the lunchbox form factor. I've been half tempted to gut it, put the guts of my MSI Wind U123 in it, and then weigh it down with 12 pounds of LIPO packs. :D
There's my busted 4P... NOT happy about that. Needs caps, needs a TUBE now, needs a resistor replaced and is missing half the ram (it has the chip to go to 128, but I pulled the RAM for my Coco 1 after the tube broke)... IT's so screwed up now I'm not even sure its worth anything but as parts. I know the plastics are screwed as I had them removed completely, then we had unexpected flooding.
I do KNOW the C64, 1000SX, Jr, and XT clone aren't going anywhere. ESPECIALLY since that XT clone is now booting off a 9gb 15K RPM Seagate Cheetah. I was SHOCKED when my ST-02 card recognized it after adding the 68 pin to 50 pin adapter.
Thinking of my parts stockpile, I should condense all the 1000 EX/HX parts I have left over to see if I can build at least one more unit from the leftovers. Sadly I left one in a friends care and just my luck, some form of rodent nested in it. Pissed me off royally because in the process it totaled one of those semi-rare memory boards for them.
Could be worse though, could be my stack of MC-10's destroyed by said flooding.
In any case... I know many of you have faced this situation. Just curious in your own collections what would you put at the top of the list to go... and why?
Strangely the past year I've gone from struggling to get the stuff I want, to drowning in stuff I don't need. Though admittedly a LOT of that comes from buying whole lots or going to estate sales where they want to sell you "the whole box of stuff" and doing so ONLY because it is often cheaper than getting the single piece I want all by itself. Shocking how fast duplicates can suddenly pile up on you.
I've been considering the need to downsize my collection a bit, and was just thinking of priorities and what I use, what I don't, what's important to me, and what isn't... Simple fact is I don't have room to have them all set up at once, nor am I likely to so...
It's funny because what's rising to the top of the list to go isn't something I'd have expected -- my Apple IIe. I DON'T USE IT!. I might consider keeping it if I had the matching monitor, but right now it's just sucking down space on a bench doing nothing. (that could be better filled with a recently acquired Rainbow 100)
Maybe it's because I found Woz's alleged "cost saving" shortcuts (that still doesn't explain it costing more than more capable competitors -- oh wait, Jobbo the clown's greed) pointlessly aggravating... maybe it's because I never actually saw one in person (I honestly thought was advertised in magazines that nobody actually owned) until around 1988 (where my school had them all locked in a room as they cost too much to risk the students damaging them -- that's not a joke. I don't think they were ever even powered on once) despite being hip-deep in Microcomputing since '77. Maybe it's because I was a "Wayne Green country" TRS-80 or die child but...
...I'm just NOT an Apple guy. I thought having one and actually getting to used it would change that -- but the more and more I deal with it the more and more it aggravates me like everything else crApple has ever made which is why it has sat there without power since... hell, this time last year?
I find my Minus-60 more fun and interesting.
Much less I probably have enough spare parts in the bin to build another one sans case if the mood REALLY struck me. Got that spare duodisk too that I can't use since no controller and to make it more aggravating, it's the 25 pin version.
Apples still remain a "why the *** did anyone buy these" for me. A fact made worse by their revisionist history and overblowing their importance in same.
I'm pondering parting with my loaded out Coco 1 (with the full 2 keyboard -- kind of wish I had a melted for it)[/i], though the trio sitting in the garage gathering dust (two of them are 32k piggyback ECB, one is 4k standard basic with a shattered case) should go first. Because I have a 128k Coco 3 the others should go... but the Coco is near and dear to my heart. Partly because when I was taking Pascal classes in school I could go home and actually run the code under OS9-- when the classes at that point were PURELY theoretical because... uhm, see above.
The Sharp PC 7000 should go, one of the two floppies has problems (not good since they're technically one drive sharing the same spindle) ... but I just LOVE the lunchbox form factor. I've been half tempted to gut it, put the guts of my MSI Wind U123 in it, and then weigh it down with 12 pounds of LIPO packs. :D
There's my busted 4P... NOT happy about that. Needs caps, needs a TUBE now, needs a resistor replaced and is missing half the ram (it has the chip to go to 128, but I pulled the RAM for my Coco 1 after the tube broke)... IT's so screwed up now I'm not even sure its worth anything but as parts. I know the plastics are screwed as I had them removed completely, then we had unexpected flooding.
I do KNOW the C64, 1000SX, Jr, and XT clone aren't going anywhere. ESPECIALLY since that XT clone is now booting off a 9gb 15K RPM Seagate Cheetah. I was SHOCKED when my ST-02 card recognized it after adding the 68 pin to 50 pin adapter.
Thinking of my parts stockpile, I should condense all the 1000 EX/HX parts I have left over to see if I can build at least one more unit from the leftovers. Sadly I left one in a friends care and just my luck, some form of rodent nested in it. Pissed me off royally because in the process it totaled one of those semi-rare memory boards for them.
Could be worse though, could be my stack of MC-10's destroyed by said flooding.
In any case... I know many of you have faced this situation. Just curious in your own collections what would you put at the top of the list to go... and why?
Strangely the past year I've gone from struggling to get the stuff I want, to drowning in stuff I don't need. Though admittedly a LOT of that comes from buying whole lots or going to estate sales where they want to sell you "the whole box of stuff" and doing so ONLY because it is often cheaper than getting the single piece I want all by itself. Shocking how fast duplicates can suddenly pile up on you.