My CollectionDo you have display cabinets full of stuff? With it all neatly labelled, cross-referenced and entered into a database. Have you been to a convention? Do other collectors look up to you in awe?
I thought I was above this one. I'm not that autistically geeky that I have a Collection with a capital C. But no, I remembered I'm hoarding away every version of "Inside Macintosh" ever published.
What do you collect? And why? I mean, what makes you do it?
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chthonic, Thu 11 Jan 2007, 16:52)
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Microscopes, fossils and home computersI was introduced to a small toy microscope as a child, by my uncle, who showed me a drop of pond water. I now own six, three of them circa 1920-1930 (including my grandmother's magnificent 1930 brass Hearson), two 1950's children's microscopes and a 1970's OU MacArthur field microscope. I'm trying to buy a very nice Leitz microscope at the moment.
I also inherited my grandmother's fossil collection (she worked as a palaeobotanist for many years) to which I have since made many additions. One of her most interesting specimens is what appears to be a fossilised dung beetle's ball of dung.
I also have a pile of old computers : ZX81, 3 Spectrums of different types, two Dragons, a Vic-20, BBC micro, Acorn Electron, Mac 128 and an Atari 2600 "woody" console.
Why? I don't know, although the BBC micro was my Dad's and along with the ZX81 it's one of the first machines I ever programmed.
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finnbar has officially retired, Fri 12 Jan 2007, 11:08,
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