In addition to my hardware and software collections I also have an extensive collection of retrogaming related printed material. As you might expect with me, it mainly deals with Sinclair products from the late 70s / early 80s but I also have piles of brochures, leaflets and other informational material from right across the range of machines from the early period of home computing. Sometimes if you can’t own a piece of hardware or software the next best thing is to own something which either advertised it or gave details of the product. I feel that all too often this material has been consigned to the bin without a thought for its historical importance and hence some of the leaflets, brochures and catalogues I own are now quite rare. Many I collected years ago before the current ‘boom’ in nostalgia and so didn’t cost much, often only a pound or two, sometimes given away. The same material can now be found fetching double figures or more on online auction sites.
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