Guys, A member recently contacted another member, who in told informed me of the first member's security concerns (that someone could in theory take something small from our new space). There has NEVER been anything stolen from us.
At the events I'm involved with our attendance was in the 15,000 - 20,000 range and surprisingly never had any issues. Our stuff was sort of watched but not really, and in the first two years the old computer collections were out 24x7. The *only* issue I had is the youngin's don't know how to handle 5.25" disks, or don't realize that they're actually needed to make the games go so we would find the 5.25" floppies on the concrete floor after they were taken out of the Apple II drives. One trick I used to use in the BBS days, and this is only for MS-DOS stuff is you can hex edit command.com and change the DEL and ERASE commands to something else, and then remove format.com and that can keep malicious activities from MS-DOS computers -- but once again no real issues here. We just come into the events with lots of copies of the originals for whatever games and consider we will lose some. My BIG fear is always the mice. NeXT, Atari ST, Amiga mice. A trick you can use is to tie wrap the keyboard cable to the mouse cable so it can't easily walk. But a mouse ball collector could still strike.