As a relatively new collector, I've taken the advise of others on this board and started scanning and cataloguing my chips (200+-) for reference. Along the way, I discovered a pretty cool way of making my inventory portable...for times when I am on the road in search of chips.

Recently I bought an HP Jornada PDA w/color screen that uses Pocket PC O/S...this will handle a Compactflash card of up to 256 MB. Each chip scan is about 50K, giving me the ability to store somewhere around 5000 scans on one card! They are easily accessed through a proprietary graphic viewer program ($10) and are organized in folders based on casino (just like a normal directory in Windows). The PDA viewer program displays thumbnails of all scans in each folder in "book" form or you can click on each thumbnail for a full size scan.

Each scan is referenced by TCR # and denomination. They are not excellent quality, but easily identifiable and pretty clear. When one storage card is full, I can simply insert another (flash memory is retained once unplugged), but that's going to take a loooong time!