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T.R.Schmidt · 10 April 2018, 21:46

I´ve read a bit more about preserving books/paper (good advice, thanks @scuzz!) and for the time beeing decided to store them all in my little living-room-office. If boxed or not, moist and badly tempered environments are dangerous for paper.

Even putting them in plastic sleeves or boxes seems a bit risky since sometimes moisture cannot escape and end in mould.

I´ve only got to avoid direct sunlight, but in summer thats a good idea anyway.

Nice benefit is I´ve got to see my collection more, what use is it really if it just rots in the attic?

Still planning to scan everything if I have spare time.

Anyone living near Limburg/Germany? I had to sort out about 30 minor interesting (to me) boxes because I went out of space, maybe we could swap/trade a few

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Anyway, here two pictures of the result, does not look to impressive, does ist? But it´s about 140 boxes (Amiga and some PC). Plain discs, hardware and console-cartridges are stored elsewhere.

http://www.nemmelheim.de/temp/IMG_9289.JPG

http://www.nemmelheim.de/temp/IMG_9288.JPG

And: Collecting hardware sucks even more, I wanted to reactivate my trusty Amiga 2000, but it´s seems to have died of battery leakage last winter, unsoldering the battery and cleaning the board didn´t help.

10 April 2018, 21:46	#12
T.R.Schmidt Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Limburg / germany Age: 47 Posts: 121	I´ve read a bit more about preserving books/paper (good advice, thanks @scuzz!) and for the time beeing decided to store them all in my little living-room-office. If boxed or not, moist and badly tempered environments are dangerous for paper. Even putting them in plastic sleeves or boxes seems a bit risky since sometimes moisture cannot escape and end in mould. I´ve only got to avoid direct sunlight, but in summer thats a good idea anyway. Nice benefit is I´ve got to see my collection more, what use is it really if it just rots in the attic? Still planning to scan everything if I have spare time. Anyone living near Limburg/Germany? I had to sort out about 30 minor interesting (to me) boxes because I went out of space, maybe we could swap/trade a few. Anyway, here two pictures of the result, does not look to impressive, does ist? But it´s about 140 boxes (Amiga and some PC). Plain discs, hardware and console-cartridges are stored elsewhere. http://www.nemmelheim.de/temp/IMG_9289.JPG http://www.nemmelheim.de/temp/IMG_9288.JPG And: Collecting hardware sucks even more, I wanted to reactivate my trusty Amiga 2000, but it´s seems to have died of battery leakage last winter, unsoldering the battery and cleaning the board didn´t help.