The collection by numbers
things in the register — 45 machines and 441 parts, 1166 photographs between them
6 of them have no portrait yet — 1% of the register, waiting for a camera.
Eight things about it
shuffleThings photographed five times or more
47
properly documented, as opposed to merely recorded
Longest wait
45 years
IBM PC 5150, made 1981, arrived 2026
Made this century
71
of the 458 things with a year on them
Bought from strangers
33
traced to an eBay order number
What shape the machines are
desktop
14 of 44, and 20 other shapes besides
Machines running DOS of some sort
18
MS-DOS, FreeDOS or the like, as recorded
Cache on the boards, added up
5.64 MiB
across the 20 boards that have any
Makers with a clean sheet
7
of 22 with 5+ parts here, every one of them working
Makers, by how much of it still works
Share recorded as Working, makers with 5+ parts still here
Makers, by parts held
The eight best represented
What the parts are
Every category in the register
Expansion buses
Slots counted across every board
Ports
Counted across every card and board
Condition
As recorded, parts only
Disposed items are left out, except from the count of disposals.