Re: How do you organize the collection? Message #8 Posted by Katie Wasserman on 24 Aug 2009, 1:02 a.m., in response to message #7 by Jeff Kearns
Jeff,
It took a long time to find these cases -- a year of looking around -- but as it turns out they were a stock item at a local "furniture barn" and were reasonably priced. The only customization I did was to order additional glass shelves for them and to install the shelves on an angle. This was easy since the display case supports the shelves on pegs that have many possible positions, adjustments at 3" intervals, so I just offset them to get a forward slope.
I store the manuals in the wooden set of drawers next to the the case with the HP calculators in them. I bought this at the same "furniture barn" also for a reasonable price. Unfortunately this store has gone out of business so I can't give you a pointer to them. However they were clearly mass produced and probably sold to many "furniture barn" type places.
Getting a nice display case really helped me get my collection going. Before I bought my first display case I had filled up a small, junky old bookcase with a couple of dozen calculators and manuals and it wasn't nearly as enjoyable to take them out and play with them. Now I keep all the calculators in the display cases ready to play with by converting them to use Energizer lithium AAA or AA cells. So I never have to charge them or worry about leakage (as far as I know).
-Katie
Edited: 24 Aug 2009, 1:03 a.m.
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