Housing collections

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Richard wrote:
> In article <20051228134415.J51020 at shell.lmi.net>,
>     Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>  writes:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Richard wrote:
>>
>>>Just out of curiosity, Tim.  Where is "Sellam's Warehouse"? ;-)
>>>That place looks like a collector's wet dream :-).
>>
>>SF bay area.
> 
> 
> OK, this brings me to another question for you collectors out there...
> 
> What do you do when your collection no longer fits in your office /
> spare bedroom / basement / garage?
> 
> Do you downsize the collection to fit?
> 
> Do you rent warehouse space?
> 
> Do any of you have physical museums that you've constructed with
> public exhibits (besides the CHM, of course)?
> 
> I have talked with another local collector about finding a suitable
> location for storage/display of our collections.  He was interested in
> buying a place, I am toying with the idea of building something to
> house my (growing) collection before it outgrows my basement.  I'm 
> getting to that point dangerously soon, I'm afraid as I've recently
> acquired some rather large items (vaxserver, 4 lilith workstations,
> PDP-11/03, etc.) and the era of equipment I'm shooting for entails
> more "large heavy power hungry items" of the 80s workstation era.
> 
> If you built your own space, what did you do for power and HVAC needs?
> 
> I'm in Salt Lake City, so I have to be concerned with both heating and
> cooling.  I'm tossing around the idea of buying an empty lot and
> building an "earth ship" on it to house a museum/collection.

I collect mainframes.  At least one piece of my collection is in every 
last room of the house.  I am contemplating adding outbuildings.

Peace...  Sridhar