[rescue] storing old Suns and parts

[Walter Belgers]

Hi,

Either my collection is too big, or my house is too small. I've thought about giving (most of) my collection to a museum, but this has been unsuccessful.

I've now bought a garage as storage. It's part of an appartment complex, so the temperature/moisture levels should be better than in a garage that has no heating/conditioning whatsoever. Of course, it will be much worse than in my home.

Any tips on storing stuff? Sparcstations and other Sun boxed, spare cards (sbus, VME), boxed with OSes on tape/CD, documentation, etc.

I was thinking about keeping the documentation and books at home. I want to put in (heavy duty) shelves for the systems, use big plastic boxes for parts. Maybe put some bags around the systems. A dehumidifier is not really an option I think, there is mains power, but I cannot go there very regularly to check on it.

I've just started to make an inventory of my stuff, seeing if the systems will still run after having been shelved so long. The first four systems: SPARCstation 20: still working! SPARCsystem Netra i4: one DIMM dead, disk dead, NVRAM empty (was fixed but battery empty again). SPARC Xterminal1, dead. SPARCstation 4: I had to hit the disk because of stiction but then it booted although NVRAM empty. I've built a whole bunch of GW-48T02-1 repair boards but I don't think I'll put them in at this time.

Regards,
Walter.
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