That happens when you're hoarding so much Amiga's...
I collect old computers. Have been doing so for the last 34 years I guess. Love em to death. Interestingly I get gifted loads of stuff. Mostly on the proviso I photograph and store the kit so those giving it to me know where it is and can see images on the website. Has also cost me a lot of money. In my very active period in the early 2000s I spent upward of £30000 on the collection. And what is really odd is that I have only ever bought around 3 or 4 A1200's and yet I have over 25. Found another today as I was trying to find a Typhoon. Mostly they were given to me when I went to pick up other machines.
The most surprised I have ever been is during a meeting in respect of my work and this person came over to me and gave me a cardboard box. Inside was a KIM... as a gift. Happens.
So yes hoarding, but in truth a lot of what I have wouldn't be in existence now if I hadn't taken the time and effort to hoard it. I have very little house. Just endless fun.
By the way my first computer was a load of knitting needles and a hole punch and a few hundred index cards. I discovered the holes punched could either be held in place by the needle or if I cut the hole to form a slot it would fall off the needle. So a complete hole was answer yes and a slot answer no. Now have multiple holes along an edge and enter slots or holes to multiple questions. When you locate the needles though the holes and let the cards drop only those left hanging off the needles would be yes to the selected questions. Even before I had left school in 1972 I had created my first crude binary code... holes or slots... 0100100100 etc. And trust me in those days we only had logs and slide rules. Never even seen a computer.... and so the love affair began.
Gotta go.. Also love MMOs.
