How do you store your computer parts?
How do you organise / sort / store all your retro gear?
Lets all share tips of how we organize our collection of retro computer stuff :)

In bins, each individually wrapped in an ESD bag with an ID label on it. I have a Microsoft Access database on my laptop with the IDs and the details of the card.

Meljor stores his collection in a kinda similar way. I would recommend getting EDS-bags though.
I like how you keep your driver disks with your parts, but this gets harder to do in case you start acquiring multiple spares of the same part so I just keep all driver disks together and virtually all manuals together as well.

In the threads I mentioned earlier are more tips and tricks. I prefer to put as much as I can in boxes and label those.

Indevidually packed in antistatic bags and place upright in boxes. One box for soundcards, one for gfx cards and so on.

I re-appropriate static bags from work. Some of them are nice with bubble wrap in-line.

Unfortunately, doesn't work for modern GPU's or ISA cards.

Um, I put them all in a box?

I am the worst at storage. The most organized I ever get is putting everything in separate plastic bins.

In bags, in boxes and in drawers, scattered about in several locations. Some of my oldest parts are stored in an old Cool Box. Honestly I'm so disorganised with my spare parts, that I often forget exactly what I actually have and sometimes I find something and have absolutely no recollection of how or where I acquired it.

Some of the stuff I've got should really be dumped, ie. a few old Winmodems. People just kept giving me them when they upgraded to Broadband back in the day, guess I was just too polite to refuse. 🤣

PTherapist wrote:

Honestly I'm so disorganised with my spare parts, that I often forget exactly what I actually have and sometimes I find something and have absolutely no recollection of how or where I acquired it.

Thats actually why I made the shelf , I didn't know how many parts I had until I dove through a bunch of boxes and saw them. This way , I can visually see what I have much better.

Tetrium was talking about this picture.

The difference is that i stack them in wooden blocks with cuts in them so they do not fall and/or touch each other and i can take any card in a second.
Only problem is the longer cards like voodoo5 and voodoo rush do not fit, they are laying behind the rows.

I do a lot of benchmarking and other stuff so i don't like to put them too far away in boxes etc. I do that with my motherboards, they are stacked in a cabinet in plastic boxes and anti static bags.

I think I will return to this thread more than once, just to look at those pictures. It is so nice to see all that PCB stacked so neatly!