First post, by Tetrium
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Branched off of this thread here Inventory keeping?
The idea of this thread is that theres always new people getting that nostalgia bug most of us are very familiar with. And most of us will at some point arrive at the exact same problem: How to best organize our ( often growing) collection of retro computer stuff? Because at the start it's all very simple. One gets some old computer and installs some old version of Windows and starts playing some older games.
But lets not fool ourselves into thinking that this is the end. Lol no! This isn't even the beginning of the end! As for many of us, this is merely the end of the beginning, the mere beginning of an awesome journey filled with both pleasure and PAIN 🤣! As one will start getting interested in exploring the fascinating world of physical digital nostalgia, each attuned to the respective persons wishes and interests (which may also shift over time).
To me, the exact details of what we collect is of much lesser importance. I personally collect mostly parts of everything, wanting to be able to try out anything I want to a certain degree, but I care less about boxed items and paper manuals (even though I always keep those anyway, I prefer to own the actual hardware above all). Some others will of course prefer to have as much of the original stuff in as exact as possible a way as it was years ago and prefer to have items in as much closely resembling the condition as when they were sold, including the boxes (the less wear and tear the better), the manuals, all cables, in as original condition as possible, sometimes even in it's original shrink wrap.
Some others may be mostly into collecting physical copies of games, rare or common, and the hardware they play these games on is of lesser importance and some will prefer to collect rare items, even if they serve no practical use other than just looking at them and maybe bragging rights.
But the thing is, there is no wrong or right way to do it, we all have out own opinions and our own visions of how we want to persue our hobbies and the best thing is that there basically is no wrong way of doing it, yet we all sooner or later arrive at the same problems and one of them is what this thread is about.
How do we store and organize our collections? Which great ideas made your lives vastly more pleasurable? Which solutions did you come up with and what worked for you and what certainly didn't?
So this is what I intent this thread to be mostly about.
So what do you Vogoners collect, why and how do you people organize your retro computing collections so you don't loose control over your collections and over your minds?
Feel free to chime in!