COLLECTING OLD HARDDRIVES

Over the years I enjoyed collecting computer hard drives and have about 20 or thirty of them. I tried to learn how to repair some of them and got pretty good at recovering lost files and partitions. And I still can do some recovery. I also used them to download pictures, lots of photos. I would pick a subject and search that subject and download like a wildman, everything and anything. I haven't even reviewed half of the downloads. I also enjoyed downloading programs and learning how to use them. Daz studio was a 3d art studio and when I first got it, I went wild downloading free models, props, and poses, some that I would never use. But I enjoyed looking at the art others did, even though mine were never that great. But I did get a couple of screensavers that I build with the Maya doll and backdrops. Right now I am into building a mouse that I need for my Easter story. I also enjoyed using stumble upon, a program for Firefox that you just push enter and it goes to pages of photos that I would download fast and move on to the next page. I never worried about looking at the pictures, because I could enjoy or not enjoy them at a later time, and most I never saw, but I sure could fill a harddrive fast. Then the fad came with utube and the downloading came back, but took longer. I guess I saved everything because I thought that when I got to old to work on computers, I could then look at them. But I am a collecting junky, my back yard is proof of that. I have things I don't even remember getting, from hubcaps to moters.

Computer collecting

For many years I collected and rebuild old computers. I think I have about ten old computers right now. But I plan to cut down on them, because I can't meet the upkeep and haven't built any for some time now. The problem I have been dealing with is knowing the ones that have the hard drives or CD rom's that came with them. My memory has gotten so bad that I just can't even remember how to hook them up, but I was good at it once. That old age!!!

My Collecting Interests

I am interested in most everything. My collecting interests are:
1- Old Coins... American and foreign (I have a large coin collection, paper & coin)
2- Stamps... Disney, art, and nude
3- post cards... humor, add's and nude
4- posters... I think it is a 1972 nude bicycle race
5- Framed famous people photos (have Einstein-Judy Garland- etc)
6- Historical people, places, and cultures, photos
7- Photos.. Sports we grew up with, nude sports, and many famous people
8- Silver peaces (coffee pots, salt shakers and etc)
9- Old Books, from 1700's (one children's book so old the pages crumble)
10- Old documents- Have an old Declaration of Independents
11- Old photos
12- Old Medical instruments (Cystoscope, Dilators, and etc)
13- Old computers
To much, and no room... My spell check isn't working, but will correct the misspelled words later as I add more.