Sv: Re: [sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!

[Magnus Danielson]

From: "Daniel Araya" <daniel.araya at sr.se>
Subject: Sv: Re: [sdiy] Weird hobby of the week: Chip-colecting!
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:43:10 +0100
Message-ID: <s21f3986.086 at rhcl03n02.sr.se>

> >>> Senso <senso at dds.nl> 2005-02-25 13:53:01 >>>
> >Remarkable, that it's someone from THIS list that refers to other 
> >people's hobby as weird. LOL
> >But I admit some of it is funny to the uninitiated.
> >
> >It's been something of an eye-opener for me. Here I spend my life as 
> >a hoarder, while I could have been a "Collector" all that time. :-)
> >
> >Senso
> 
> Haha, I bet the chip-collectors would laugh at us ... "They actually
> USE their ua726:s!"
> I don't really get the "collecting-but-not-using"-part...

For ua726 you put them away in safe storage not for the collectability but as
spare for the synths you really love and want to have running (say a Minimoog).
That is constructive even if they are not used for years.

> I'm a hoarder too, I know that if I throw something away I will miss
> _just that part_ very soon.
> I've given stuff to Magnus D just to ask it back half a year
> later...and giving him something else in place! :)   ("ehmmm those
> 3055's...do you use them?")

You fail to diffrentiate between "intended to use but didnt" and "collecting".

My lab-time has been low until lately.

Cheers,
Magnus - who chosed a different design for that particular project, which was using two other items I was given from Daniel...