Captain's Log / star date 2008.1219
The holiday season is in full swing and I'm longing for my week and a half long break from work. In between the social obligations I will be spending lots of time crossing off some of the long standing to do items off my list. Been meaning to re-inventory my Amiga coverdisk collection as I have amassed quite a few additions in the past few months with lots of holes filled and lots of duplicates. The total number of coverdisks in my collection must be somewhere around 800 now. I haven't been quite as succesful in administrating all these new additions, so there are probably lots of discrepancies between my administration and real life. Although it might sound like a tedious task to sort through stacks and stacks of Amiga coverdisks, nothing could be further from the truth. I experience great joy from browsing through these disks. Just like the magazines they originally came with, they are tangible reminders of how adventurous and fun having an Amiga was in the 20th century!
Another item I have on my list is the yearly battery check. I have a couple of Amigas that have battery backed up clocks. As most of these are not used throughout the year it's a good idea to switch them on now and again to prevent the batteries from leaking on to the motherboard (and possibly destroying these fine machines). While I'm at it I will probably be giving all of my Amigas a good cleaning. Recently I also bought some more stuff from the same C64/Amiga fan who I bought the stacks of Amiga mags and coverdisks from. One of the goodies I picked up was a good old Commodore MPS1270 printer. I remember having this printer back in the early 90's. I picked up lots of other stuff as well of which I'll add some photographs to the site soon.
Finally I have also decided to embark on a retro survival of sorts. :-) I will be using the holiday season to see how much I can do without a modern computer. I will be moving my iMac away from my main desk and replacing it with my A500 and a Commodore 1084s monitor! The A500 does have a Viper 530 installed with lots of memory so I won't be totally helpless, but still, it should provide quite a challenge to see how much of my daily computing activities could be done with an A500. I'll be documenting my retro survival here on the site!
