Unfortunately I learned that putting my old junk in the attic is easier than getting rid of it. I try to avoid the emotional attachment however - aside from a small trunk of vintage film cameras from my Dad's collection, going as far back as the early 1900's. Maybe once a year I look through those. Got out my old aluminum PowerBook G4 a couple years ago and was having fun playing with the old software for awhile (although my real reason was to access some very old MacDraw II files). Went out of the room for a few minutes and when I came back it was dead, never to be revived. The next day I dragged an ancient Power Macintosh G4 tower down from the attic and the exact same thing happened, but that time it only took a few minutes before it died. Of course, both went back to the attic anyway.

My first video system was a Power Macintosh 8100 with 48MB of RAM and a Radius VideoVision Studio board. But the $10,000 grant I got wasn't enough to also afford a disk array so I could only do something like 320x240 (the VideoVision board alone was almost $3000). This was 1995 and I was mainly using that machine for 3d modelling and CAD however. Was going to throw it away many years ago and a friend said he wanted it. Ran into him recently and he laughed and said it's still in *his* basement! :-)

Then there was my original Apple ][ that I got in 1978 (serial #4546). I left it in my shed in a second home. Everything in that shed was gradually ruined by the leaky roof and rodents, and finally it collapsed when a tree fell on it. I still have all the original manuals (part of them look like xerox copies stapled in the corner), and also the original software on cassette tapes. At least they don't take much room to store!

I may still have one of those big expensive old hi8 decks. It never worked right and my D8 decks were so much smaller and better with FireWire. Maybe I need to see if I can find it since maybe it's worth something Afterall???