pjduplooy Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 OK, I have to admit. I am a hoarder of things TI related. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Bad news-there is no known cure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjduplooy Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 Damn, really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacquesg Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 Enjoy it. You could be addicted to something a lot more dangerous. Jacques Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The cure is to start selling some of it off. Particularly to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjduplooy Posted March 16, 2014 Author Share Posted March 16, 2014 No No No, it's all mine!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted March 16, 2014 Share Posted March 16, 2014 The cure is to start selling some of it off. Particularly to me. You are correct. Every once in a while, I go through my stuff and say 'Do I really need this?' or 'Would it help other people to have this?'. I then either give it away or sell it at a very reasonable price. I'm hoping it helps keep the community alive. Gazoo 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 OK, I have to admit. I am a hoarder of things TI related. Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN HELP YOU! Just send me EVERYTHING, and you'll have no more problem! See how easy that is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 The cure is to start selling some of it off. Particularly to me. DUDE! Easy on the poor fella... not all at once. Perhaps AtariAge ("AA") is a perfect place for this. The twelve-step program to cleansing yourself of this ailment. A "TI Anonymous," if you will. The first step is admitting there is a problem. But, really, I can stop amassing my TI stuff any time I want to. I control this habit, it does NOT contr OH, LOOK WHAT JUST CAME UP ON EBAY!!!! GOTTA GO! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 You are correct. Every once in a while, I go through my stuff and say 'Do I really need this?' or 'Would it help other people to have this?'. I then either give it away or sell it at a very reasonable price. I'm hoping it helps keep the community alive. Gazoo Yeah, I have a second PEB that David Ormond sent me a long time ago. It was a freebie with the condition when I am ready to move on I pass it on to a fellow 99er who can put it to use. I am just about there, just having a difficult time parting with it because I want to make a replacement power supply and a spare unit is a perfect test chassis. Oh, the torment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+hloberg Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 DUDE! Easy on the poor fella... not all at once. Perhaps AtariAge ("AA") is a perfect place for this. The twelve-step program to cleansing yourself of this ailment. A "TI Anonymous," if you will. The first step is admitting there is a problem. But, really, I can stop amassing my TI stuff any time I want to. I control this habit, it does NOT contr OH, LOOK WHAT JUST CAME UP ON EBAY!!!! GOTTA GO! LOL. Just started re-amassing TI stuff after many years. Hard not to buy out eBay, I mean, they have a Navarone Cartridge Expander and a Wico Joystick adapter and a Boxed Ex BASIC and..... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 (edited) I know this problem. . .my wife keeps telling me I have too much stuff. The problem is--all of the stuff she complains about is my TI computer stuff. That started about two weeks after we got married. She looked at my European 99/4 and asked what it was. I told her it was a computer. She said it looks old--get rid of it. I picked it up and pointed to the date stamp on the bottom: 0980. She said so what, that means nothing. My response was that this computer was built in the 9th week of 1980, and that I'd had it since it was new. I also noted that it was older than she was, and that she would leave long before it did. . .that war has continued ever since. LOLOL I do need to arrange my collection somewhat though, as I keep misplacing important items in my "junk room" as the wife calls it. Edited March 17, 2014 by Ksarul 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I know this problem. . . Have you ever noticed, when wifes talk about their men's stuff, it's "JUNK", but when they talk about their own stuff, it's just "STUFF"? What's with that? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I know this problem. . . in 2004 my wife told me:" ok, i am tired of your stuff in this house...Choose !... me or your shit of T - I - 9 - 9 - A - 4 !!!! ".... so since the 2004 i am single ,I couldn't love a woman who does not even know the correct name of my computer 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lee Stewart Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 In our house, it's our stuff or our junk—well, most of the time, anyway. Many of you met my Anna at the last Chicago International Faire and probably agree that she's cool and certainly tolerant. And—she rather enjoyed the company of all us nerds! ...lee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted March 17, 2014 Share Posted March 17, 2014 I am fortunate enough to have a woman who not only tolerates what I do, but also encourages it (she bought me Pitfall for Christmas a couple of years back -- I think we were actually broken up at the time.) I do my best to keep my hobby contained in my room, and what I cannot fit in there I keep in storage in good condition. I rotate some stuff out as the fever hits, but the two staples in my immediate grasp are my Amiga and my TI. Even my 128D does not get first billing these days! Though, now that I am putting everything on my rack I suppose the 128D could come out to play. The 130XE, however, will wait. Now, if only other parts of the relationship were so easy. EDIT: TOLERATE was the word I was having difficulty finding, thank you, Lee. PPS: She also thinks that my having found my original 99/4A from 1983 is pretty neat. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I know this problem. . .my wife keeps telling me I have too much stuff. The problem is--all of the stuff she complains about is my TI computer stuff. That started about two weeks after we got married. She looked at my European 99/4 and asked what it was. I told her it was a computer. She said it looks old--get rid of it. I picked it up and pointed to the date stamp on the bottom: 0980. She said so what, that means nothing. My response was that this computer was built in the 9th week of 1980, and that I'd had it since it was new. I also noted that it was older than she was, and that she would leave long before it did. . .that war has continued ever since. LOLOL I do need to arrange my collection somewhat though, as I keep misplacing important items in my "junk room" as the wife calls it. DAMN! WE GOT THE SAME WIFE! How in hell did that happen?! She's been deceiving us both all these years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmicBoy Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Have you ever noticed, when wifes talk about their men's stuff, it's "JUNK", but when they talk about their own stuff, it's just "STUFF"? That must be "shoes" .... my wife has so many, she has an extra room for them. Maybe because of that i'm a lucky guy ... she never complains about my computer stuff I also noted that it was older than she was, and that she would leave long before it did. . . I own a vending machine build in 1971. When we moved to our new house, my wife mentioned that it is old and we should throw it anway. i told her it is antique, i will restore it some day and it is from 1971 ..... she was born in 1971 .... big mistake ..... 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 in 2004 my wife told me:" ok, i am tired of your stuff in this house...Choose !... me or your shit of T - I - 9 - 9 - A - 4 !!!! ".... so since the 2004 i am single ,I couldn't love a woman who does not even know the correct name of my computer You could just have taken her on a holiday to Sicily, there are some people there that offer a wife diposal service (no questions asked) for a nominal fee 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 I own a vending machine build in 1971. When we moved to our new house, my wife mentioned that it is old and we should throw it anway. i told her it is antique, i will restore it some day and it is from 1971 ..... she was born in 1971 .... big mistake ..... Ooooooooh, yeah, you GOTTA watch those 'side-ways jumps in ill-logic' that some of them take. Their brains (processing units) are different, just because two things are the same, (in this case in age only), they'll combine the two into one subject heading in their firmware, ASSUME the two are linked and then 'take it personal'. You can only lose at that point (if you have a model that becomes irrational). The one that behavior that DROVE ME NUTZ was if you knew something that they did not, you were 'obviously making stuff up'. Even when they found out later you were 'not making stuff up' and the song, information or whatever had been around for decades, there was never an "I'm sorry for accusing you", or even a simple "sorry, I didn't know.". The arrogance in that behavior is mind boggling. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ksarul Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 There is also the alternate reality processing unit. Once mine has identified anything as "real" or "correct," any demonstrations on the part of reality contrary to that worldview are automatically wrong. If one of her friends tells her something, it is as real and correct as a gold bar in her hands (she's a Turk, so she REALLY likes gold, it is a cultural thing with them). Taking her to the ultimate source of the correct information nets the response "they're wrong, my friend knows better" and usually results in a week or so of the icy blast vision or the continuing low-grade volcanic eruption with short blasts of plasma-grade verbal attitude correction attempts. Those are really good weeks to go into hiding in the "junk room." LOLOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willsy Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 (edited) ...and usually results in a week or so of the icy blast vision or the continuing low-grade volcanic eruption with short blasts of plasma-grade verbal attitude correction attempts. Yep. However, if you can get them feeling sexy when in that mode, the sex is always awesome. # We're getting waaaaay off topic. Hope my wife doesn't see this! (If you do see this sweety, I love you very much darling ) Edited March 18, 2014 by Willsy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 That must be "shoes" .... my wife has so many, she has an extra room for them. Maybe because of that i'm a lucky guy ... she never complains about my computer stuff I own a vending machine build in 1971. When we moved to our new house, my wife mentioned that it is old and we should throw it anway. i told her it is antique, i will restore it some day and it is from 1971 ..... she was born in 1971 .... big mistake ..... You piqued my interest on the vending machine, I've been a vending service tech for 31 years. More info please! Gazoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 ...and usually results in a week or so of the icy blast vision or the continuing low-grade volcanic eruption with short blasts of plasma-grade verbal attitude correction attempts. Ouch! When some of them go into full-blown 'attitude mode', it's usually because they are 'defensive', which is a sure sign that they KNOW they are in the wrong, but don't want to admit it. Correcting you, is just their way of either asserting their dominance OR to make you realize that 'you are wrong on occasion too' (so you'll forgive them of theirs or punish you for showing them that they were wrong.). It's sad that some of them cannot get over it and move on, it would be healthier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 What a bunch of sexist pigs we have around here. ::muffled oink:: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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