What Else Do You Collect?

Lord almighty...what DON'T I collect?

Other than coins:
- Baseball, football, hockey, and basketball cards 1930s to 1970s
- Sports memorabilia and autographs (pucks, balls, sticks, jerseys, bats, signed photos, etc.)
- Antique bottles, especially medicine bottles, sodas and flasks
- Minerals, fossils and gemstones
- Vintage Hi-Fi and tube audio gear: McIntosh, Marantz, Fisher, Sansui, harman/kardon, Scott, Dynaco just to name a few...
- Vinyl records 1950s-1970s rock and jazz
- Star Wars items


As for vintage computing, I started out with a TI-99/4A with cassette tape storage, a 300 baud acoustic coupler, and a 4K memory expansion cartridge, keying programs into BASIC out of books with my dad's help. I also (much later) had a MOS 6502 based assembly-language trainer which consisted of 1K of RAM, an alphanumeric keypad, a speaker and an 8-digit LED display; I wrote a few programs for it such as a scale and an 8-note electronic organ.

Since then as far as old tech goes I've owned an IBM 8088 XT, the first Compaq XT clone with an 8086, a 286, and 2 486's, as well as the first-gen IBM Thinkpad, and lots of old accessories like Token Ring & ARCnet cards, tape drives, 1200 baud external modems, etc. Video game consoles have been a big part of that too, with an Atari 2600, a NES, a Super NES, a Sega Master System, and a Sega Genesis along the way. I have some other unique things such as a gold "open" prototype 8086 from AMD, a Hercules Graphics Adapter full slot ISA, an IBM 80286 AT board with the rare original 6 MHz processor, etc.

It's amazing when you realize that a plain jane Apple Watch has billions of times more processing power than the first Apple II did 40 years ago, costs less money, and is far more useful.

At my age I don't collect anything anymore except dust. Gee, I don't even buy green bananas.

That said I have well established collections of WWII memorabilia, canes, historical photographs, vintage postcards, ephemera, and Apple II computers.

I still use my 30+ year old GS for inventory for my collections with the pre-Mac AppleWorks.




Fun to use the original hardware but for safety I have all my records backed up to run under emulation on modern computers.

I suppose you could consider my smallish amount of writing pens and stationary a collection I guess. I have tried a few fountain pens, but they don't really appeal to me. I mostly use ballpoint/rollerball pens. I got on a craze a buying all the tip sizes to find one I liked best, but have sort of settled on .5 mm usually in blue as my fav. I am currently working through some fun colors just to have some fun on the paperwork/log sheet for work.

Currently using Karas Kustoms Bolt G2 with an aluminum barrel that I have tried to add some texture to.

I also have a Karas Render K Mini, a couple Retro51, and enough ink refills to last me decades

I wouldn't have it any other way

Nice AMX, they really are an underrated car! I would drive one proudly while rocking Led Zeppelin of course!

I don't know why, but I think I want to start a collection of antique compasses.

coinfrog- Do you collect paintings?

Nice!