ScuzzBlog: Diaries February 2026
Entry 6th February 2026: Post 1: Lost in the collection - The things I can never find.
Lost in the collection - The things I can never find.
I have had this note on my desktop for months now to compile a
list of those items that seem to crop up a lot on blogs and for
the life of me can never find in the collection. Anyway I have
put together the following short list just for my own benefit.
You would be amazed how often I want to refer to this stuff but
fail cus I just can't find the picture:
01: The Inner Circle: A good selection of my original A1200.
02: The artwork for Infestation lost in an Elite blog.
03: A comprehensive record of what is in my main store area.
04: Rita Vrataskias the 'Angel of Verdun' I can never remember the name.
04: Lost with the Acorn 3000 a great picture of the workshop.
05: Classic image of the Ferranti ULA chip in the Electron.
06: My boxed BBC Acorn tape recorder lost with the Electron.
07: The Suncom controller that I never know what I called it.
A few words:
I have taken a lot of pictures of my inner circle of computers
in the Workshop and have them listed in the index. However my
favourite set of pics I can never find for some reason. I recall
the day I took these pictures. Seems like only yesterday. Amazingly
the area has not changed one bit over the years.
I have featured the artwork of Infestation in other blogs but I
did take this very good picture on a blue background but never
could find it. My bad for featuring the artwork in an Elite blog.
The main store area for the collection fills my old dining room.
The area is built into three waves of storage. The first on metal
shelving. The second stacked boxes and the third in front of all
this a series of plastic tubs. It gets more complex cus on the
front layer of tubs are computer boxes almost up to the ceiling.
So when you hear me say I can't recover something, its more that
I ain't gonna even try. That is a day job taking the storage down
to get at the rear shelves. As much as I would like to. So these
pics are essential, and again I can never find them.
Incredible just how often the name of Rita Vrataskias crops up.
The film is the Tom Cruise science fiction film where he can
never die. Each time he does he simply returns back to where he
is asleep amongst his luggage having been sent to the front line.
There is so much of this film and the book that is used in loads
of video games, the most recent Stellar Blade, but I can never
find the blog. The book is in a drawer behind a stack of A500s
and would take me an age to recover.
I was aware of a few great pictures of the Workshop I took some
years back and forgot what they were associated with. Turns out
they were part of a series of pics I took in respect of the
Acorn 3000. This is the machine that holds the very first ARM
chip. It was working but turns out blew a transistor. I do have
another working so not a problem.
I have a number of blogs about the Electron but only one has an
image of the ill-fated Ferranti ULA chip.
I often want to feature the tape recorder featured with the
Electron but can never find it.
Lastly the Suncom controller. This is used with say the C64 and
GEOS. Trouble is when I am searching the index I simply get the
Notepad to word search. So I just can never remember how I
described the thing. I should have called it a mouse or joystick.
This is a very clever little device that gives you mouse control
on the C64 without the special tank mouse. But can I ever find it?
Thing is only one of the blogs has the video. The bottom one.
Anyhoo!! That is my short list . Like I say only really for my
benefit. Now I have to remember where I placed this list. I have
said many times on this blog that the secret to any data base is
the index. The truth is you can store anything anywhere as long
as you have made a useable clearly understandable index that tells
you where it is. I mean somewhere in a ledger there must be a
record of where they stored that crate in Raiders. I do have all
my stuff indexed and recorded, but sadly sometimes I just can't
remember how I recorded the item.
Going now... Postie just arrived.
Lost in the collection - The things I can never find.
previously on scuzzblog: My inner circle
previously on scuzzblog: Space - The final Frontier
previously on scuzzblog: Words is one thing. Tub horror.
previously on scuzzblog: Rita Vrataski - Repeat or just another mimic
previously on scuzzblog: BBC A3000 - Saved by the Microvitec
previously on scuzzblog: Acorn Electron - ULA failure.
previously on scuzzblog: Acorns in cardboard boxes
previously on scuzzblog: GEOS Controller - Suncom Icontroller for the C64
previously on scuzzblog: C64 - Suncom controller.
