[Milsurplus] Ownings database ?

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Databases do exist. I’ve played with a number of them over the years. They are all a bit of a “deep dive” into computer nonsense. They also can be a chore to keep running as operating systems are updated.  It is very unclear to me that the typical “estate sale” outfit  would have the skills to work with this or that program. Anything past an Excel spreadsheet probably is “too much”. 

The next layer is that everything would need to be labeled with some sort of “my part number” system. Otherwise sorting, searching, tracking, reverse indexing is not likely to work out. 

One alternative is to box things up with all the “good stuff” together in each box. You have a *much* better idea of what a buyer would like to see together in one lot than the typical auction house does …..

Bob

> On Nov 2, 2023, at 9:19 PM, Hubert Miller <Kargo_cult at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> I was triaging paper today and this thought occurred to me. A database of my ownings would be a good idea. I have learned that one's life can suddenly, radically change,
> and i learned from estate sales i have attended that there can be regrettable unnecessary chaos too. I wonder if others have done this and what they are using, if any,
> for a data logging program. I would need not many fields, but room for a paragraph or two in some cases. I think i need to add tie tags to items also. Unfortunately right
> now the power cables, manuals and so on are not closely associated with the equipment. For example, a power cable for a Japanese HRO type receiver; if i'm gone, who's
> going to figure out what that is? Maybe Brad W. K7DGT,  he is smart enough to figure it out, but maybe no one else. Also i have a lot of books and manuals, some really 
> obscure and rare, and i'd hate for them to be just donated en masse. ( BTW, have you noticed that at almost any estate sale, the original equipment manuals are nowhere
> to be found? ) 
> So anywhere i wonder what others are doing?
> -Hue Miller  K7HUE
> Newport, Oregon 
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