[jan-jaap]

Hi Gerhard, good to see you back.

I also need to find a place where I can build a little "museum" for all the stuff. 99% of it is now boxed/stacked either in my parents basement (dry, heated environment) or at a storage facility (one of their better "rooms" but still only a reused underground parking lot).

I actually did this, sortof. In 2012 I had an annex built to our house. My exclusive man cave for my collection. In my case, we're talking about ~ 25 systems on ~ 26 m2. What I was aiming for was the "definitive" solution, and the result is that it's still not finished today. For example, I wanted to wire "everything" (so console, network, often FDDI or FC) to every system, no plugging cables around before being able to use something. Central, remote controlled power distribution to everything. It adds up to ~ 700m of CAT5 cable and > 300m of fiber. So more than 1km, not counting power and video cables. I wanted it to look good, so no bundles of cable visible. I can tell you it's a challenge to hide that much cable.

Of course, "museum" doesn't mean I sit by the door to sell tickets to visitors. I have a job, a family and all the usual things competing for my time. I made good progress the last two years, but it's going to take at least another year to finish, maybe more. It really takes *a lot* of time.

At the same time, I'm trying to reduce the spare parts to a sensible set of known-good parts, relevant to the systems I own. A lot of these parts came from people essentially saying "come liberate me from this pile of stuff", but there's no point keeping e.g. an Onyx2 rack MMSC display if you don't have this system, or three Octane SE graphics cards if you've got an Octane MXE. You can have two FDDI boards in storage, if you don't keep an inventory list or don't know whether they work, you might end up buying a third if it shows up, only making hings worse.

Since the total amount of time I can spend on this hobby is limited, all of the above goes at the cost of actually doing fun things with my systems. But in the long run it pays off.

[GeekLucanis]

I actually wrote up a wish list on my website.
http://serenityconnection.com/wishlist/

[Gamefan]

I am new to this forum but not new to SGI. Growing up in California and working in Silicon Valley afforded me many opportunities to own an SGI. My main goal is to get back into collecting these beautiful, powerful machines and learn IRIX fully.

I currently own a MAC Mini, MacBook Pro 2015, and current generation Lenovo Legion laptop.

I have now set my sights on trying to obtain over the years the following SGI's:

Indy R5000
Indigo 2 Impact 10000
Octane
O2+
SGI Fuel
SGI Tezro

I know my eyes may be bigger than my wallet, but over time, it may come to be.